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Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] Geek_King 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you imagine being so rich that you can drop 250k on a trip? It's a very specialty thing, but holy shit, I don't even want to drop 5k on a trip and then there's people out there casually dropping that kind of cash on an "experience".

Glad to hear they have 4 days of oxygen onboard the sub, so hopefully they can be rescued with no loss of life. Is it weird to anyone else that they don't know when they lost contact? They don't have some kind of communication buoy the sub can use to keep in contact with it's mothership?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to

Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.

they do know when they lost contact, but obviously seem to be unable to reestablish it. Now assuming Musk’s starlink satellites aren’t at fault (which they could tell if that was the case), something must have gone wrong with the submersible’s hardware and that’s not good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Starlink doesn't work for submarines. The radio frequency they use can't penetrate water. The support ship does use it to communicate with the outside world, but the communications link between the ship and the sub has to use entirely different technology.

[–] Geek_King 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the extra information! The way the original article I read sounded, they lost contact and had no idea when. So that at least gives some hope that they have enough of a window for rescue based on how much O2 they generally carry on board. But if it just went dark, a lost of ship power is the only thing I can think of that would cause that, which means sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Would life support even help at that point? Nothing to pump O2 or scrub CO2 out of the air.

[–] QuarterSwede 3 points 1 year ago

$250K for 8 days 😳

[–] Canopyflyer 2 points 1 year ago

Here is a submariners take on the accident, with the information available so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac