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Cariad
@Cariad

Context via the CBC:

The type of equipment needed to search at the depths required is rare. The Titanic sits more than 3,800 metres beneath the surface of the ocean, where the pressure is immense and light is nonexistent. OceanGate has previously told CBC News there are few manned vessels on the planet that can reach such depths.

They're searching for a small vessel in a wide area. Titan is seven metres long and just under three metres high. Mauger said the search area they've covered by air is about the size of Connecticut.

The submersible was towed out to sea on the weekend, taking crews of five below the surface to view the Titanic. The last communication between the submersible and its mother ship, the Polar Prince, happened about 1½ hours into the dive early Sunday morning. It has not been heard from since.

The kicker? Watch this CBS News video:

It is a literal death trap for the wealthy.


Cariad
@Cariad

Originally found here.

From the company blog:

innovation is outside of an already accepted system. However, this does not mean that OceanGate does meet standards where they apply, but it does mean that innovation often falls outside of the existing industry paradigm.

Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation.

Oh boy.


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in reply to @Cariad's post:

So these idiots are absolutely dead, right?
Like it's pretty sad (except for the billionaire I truly couldn't care less) that they're dead but let's be real about the situation (re: these idiots being dead).

As another comment mentioned it's a wireless bluetooth piece of shit. My roommate had one and it kept randomly disconnecting and going into sleep mode if you didn't touch it for 5 minutes. It was shitty enough it actually got returned

in reply to @Cariad's post:

The thing Musk wanted his engislaves to send to Thailand was indeed more accurately described as a (non-rigid) “water coffin,” and the reason he was told to fuck off was what happens if it gets caught on a jagged bit of rock?

The option they went with, “sedate ‘em and push them along the dive,” sounded just as insane. Its advantage over “tube full of air” was that the failure condition wasn’t a binary thing. If the water coffin fails, its occupant is straight fucked.

Very different set of problems in a flooded cave near sea level. That thing would have been a pretty good idea in some other disaster.

Incidentally, in this disaster, if they’re immobile on the bottom, there’s no way to rescue them at all. Navy submarines have something like an escape hatch they can hook to a diving bell or another submarine. Not this thing.