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[–] Pmmeyourtoaster 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Am curious how long this has been there and whether perhaps the "banging" was not related whatsoever.

[–] WassupDoc 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope that the sub imploded during the descent, and they've been dead all this time. Rather than the hull giving out after they sat on the ocean floor for days.

[–] Hopps 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm feeling the same way, that would be a much better way to go.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Much better since your brain wont realize the implosion is happening before you're dead. Although, for some reason the idea that my body is forever in the deep ocean is not a favorable one

[–] spittingimage 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the idea that my body is forever in the deep ocean is not a favorable one

It won't be. Circle of life, man.

[–] pineapplefriedrice 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Titanium is a delicacy among marine creatures.

[–] deweydecibel 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny thing is, the Titanic itself is being eaten. They discovered a new form of iron eating bacteria down there. That wreck is a feast.

[–] pineapplefriedrice 1 points 1 year ago

That's interesting, I didn't know that.

[–] pineapplefriedrice 1 points 1 year ago

That's interesting, I didn't know that.

[–] spittingimage 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The submarine won't stay pressurised forever.

[–] sorenant 7 points 1 year ago

Give or take a couple millions of years and the sea might become a plain or something.

[–] pineapplefriedrice 4 points 1 year ago

Weirdly, I'd feel better about "parts of my body floating around" than "my body curled up in a capsule on the ocean floor".

[–] FinnFooted 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the debris sites indicate the implosion happened relatively soon after descent because the debris had drifted very far away from the Titanic. If they had descended deeper, the implosion would have been closer.

[–] AliLunaCat 29 points 1 year ago

I heard the banging sound happened at 30 minute intervals for a while, but also the banging sounds could've been from one of the many search boats that were searching near the acoustic bouy

[–] philz 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe they confirmed in the press conference the bangs were not related due to where the debris was found.

[–] zsolaris 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/22/us/titanic-missing-submarine/dfca265c-b461-5a4b-a300-f5e7efcd6eeb?smid=url-share

They did.

The underwater banging noises that were picked up by the authorities earlier this week do not appear to have had any relation to the site of the submersible’s wreckage. “There doesn’t appear to be any connection between the noises and the location on the sea floor” where the debris was found, Mauger said. Previously, the Coast Guard had said that they repositioned their search efforts around where those noises were detected.

[–] squirrelwithnut 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if they weren't related, then what were they?

[–] SgtAStrawberry 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SupersonicScrub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Extra noises of the all the search and rescue assets in the vicinity and the natural biases of the human operators to want to decipher patterns from the background noises = false positives. There's precedent for that:

https://www.forces.net/usa/banging-sounds-heard-during-search-sunken-us-submarine-uss-thresher

[–] SgtAStrawberry 1 points 1 year ago
[–] SupersonicScrub 1 points 1 year ago

Just copy-pasting something I wrote under another comment:

This is actually quite normal, and similar situations have occurred during search and rescues for missing submarines. The ocean carries sound quite well, and hydrophones will inevitably pick up noises of from all sorts of of things if observed for long enough. Add into that the extra noises of the all the search and rescue assets in the vicinity and the natural biases of the human operators to want to decipher patterns from the background noise; false positives are quite typical.

A similar situation happened with the sinking of the USS Thresher. https://www.forces.net/usa/banging-sounds-heard-during-search-sunken-us-submarine-uss-thresher