40 Hours of Air Left ! 13,000 Feet to Titanic is pretty Deep !

Technically, it is just a submersible since it isn't self propelled. I can just move up, down, and basic motion.

Wow , Thank You for Info . US Coast Guard just reported Youngest Member on board the Sub is 19 Years Old . Lots of Naval Ships Scrambling to Help . naval .

13000 ft down in a home built submersible just sounds like a bad idea.

Battery Powered I'd assume.

The owner/pilot sounds like a real toolbag. Fired an employee for pointing out safety issues with the sub. Read an interview with him where he pretty much claimed safety regulations were stupid.

Karma's a b*tch!

Saw that its actually illegal to go down and tour the titanic, you can only go down there for research purposes so the CEO was scamming from one end to the other right off the bat

Yeah, he lists the passengers as "mission specialists".

There's not even any seats in that thing. They're barefoot sitting on the floor.

“Everything else can fail. Your thrusters can go, your lights can go — you’re still going to be safe,”



Stockton Rush, CEO of Oceangate, currently on board the sub testing weather that statement is true.

Also Oceangate sounds like Watergate don't it?

An interesting interview. This guy makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHFI7ddyK-c

Posted this thread in the other topic as well.

https://twitter.com/cfishman/status/1671588858750803974

Well they're having a "$250,000 trip of a lifetime", one way or another.

I've been watching it closely, a lot of artillery just showed up in form of ROV's, 5 or 6 of them that can all go even deeper than the Titanic.

Just read a CBS (I think) story that said that "4 days of air" spec is all theoretical, nobody's every stayed in it that long to check...

The sea.
As land creatures humans have “learned the hard way” a vast amount from the sea.

Humans have “learned the hard way” a vast amount from mining deep down into the earth.

But there is an old folk saying:

There is no education in the second kick of a mule.

The first many kicks of the mule here were all the avoidable mistakes in the original sinking of the Titanic.

I can see taking risks and spending of funds of diving deep
to explore “Black Smokers” in the deep sea
or looking for nodules of needed minerals on deep sea floors,
or looking for the sunken Czarist Russian Navy warship with a payroll of Gold coins,
but this “adventure tourism”
is consuming tax dollars for rescue
and luring “clicks” for advertising $ in a bad way.

Debris field found.......