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James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble (www.npr.org)
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The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thrusters on the outside. The goal was to minimize hull penetrations for cabling and things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, so the signal went through the water a little bit. We had a struggle about it in a different thread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably not, actually. carbon fiber is opaque to blue tooth. Even a single ply carbon shell is enough to block it. My DLG r/c airplane uses an arramid section for the antenna.