To add to this there is speculation that the challenger astronauts may have been conscious all the way down until the shuttle hit the water.
Some other fucked up bits about Columbia - the crew were not told about the seriousness of the foam strike. In fact, some NASA big wig overruled the safety team when they asked the CIA to reposition a satellite to closely photograph the damaged wing. She didn’t think it was serious and the crew was never informed that there was a potentially big problem. Additionally, upon reentry, the shuttle started shedding tiles and taking on additional drag on the left wing, but the pilot wasn’t aware because the automatic systems were adjusting for it on the fly. By the time the crew knew there was a significant problem (multiple alarms going off regarding the left landing gear), there wasn’t enough time for them to even close and secure their face masks to their helmets. There was enough time for the pilot to flick the switch to attempt to regain power to the crew module. Almost better that way, because the de-pressurization almost certainly knocked the crew unconscious before the more horrifying stuff happened. It was also crazy to read that the re-entry procedure is so hurried that not all of the crew members were even wearing their helmets when the cabin broke apart.
Couple of articles about previous expeditions. Close calls: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/subs-titanic-expeditions-1.6887824 Cameron's 1995 dives: https://www.wired.com/1998/02/cameron-3/ or https://archive.is/3P5Mu
everyone feels like the main character in their own movie until you die a tragic death because some idiot didn't care about safety
We already touched on it last page, but this IG post has a video on the second slide showing one of the Virgin Galactic flights. Basically seems like if you decided to pay for sex but were then told “just the tip.” The main draw is a few minutes of weightlessness. Which, objectively, would be extremely cool. But when it’s roughly 100k per minute, then it doesn’t have quite the same appeal. Also, it seems way too pricey with the very real risk of a rocket failure/explosion. But if this is the first baby step on humanity’s path to becoming a spacefaring species, then I can’t help but hope it all works out.
That Virgin Galactic is the saddest shit. Half a mill to go brag to your other douchebag friends about going to "space"
Oh, I’m sorry have you ever been to space? Raise your hand if you’ve been to space. Nobody? Just my hand raised. Plebs
There's probably a bucket containing all the pieces of the pressure hull which is what is going to be the story. Those are pieces that were attached to the hull and were just near the implosion and not really part of it.
“So Stockton, the Titan’s viewport is only designed to withstand pressure down to 5,000 feet, right?” “Yep.” “How far down are we going?” “12,000 feet.”
The Navy sent one ship that has those capabilities. https://time.com/6288699/navy-salvage-titanic-sub/ https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact...245/flyaway-deep-ocean-salvage-system-fadoss/
I guess we are to assume there's nothing left of the hull but the window is out on that end cap. I wonder if the hull fails and everything goes or??? Seems like it would be possible that the hull imploded but that window stayed in place. Seems strange both failed at the same time or maybe that's normal when this happens
What essentially happened was the same as when you twist, squeeze, and shoot off the cap of an empty water bottle full of air.
If there's anything left of the hull and its occupants, it's very small splinters of the carbon fiber and human paste that's giving back to the earth and returning to nothingness in the next week weeks.
Lighting off sonar was one of the anti-terrorism measures we trained on for a diver attack. Also served with a sonar tech that lost most of his hearing because he was doing maintenance in a sonar dome when they lit it off.
That end cap looks like it was beveled so that the titanium would hold the acrylic when the external pressure got high. Like Emma said, when it imploded everything was moving inward at ~2,000 ft/sec and the pressure inside went up to ~6,000 psi almost instantly.
Yeah that’s a bit strange. We’ve been hearing the pressure on the particles in the sub would cause the temperature inside to heat up so intensely that they would essentially be vaporized. So you wouldn’t think there could be remains. Unless it’s like a scorch mark which seems unlikely. The other option is they were basically crushed to a paste. So did they find the equivalent of a human remain shit stain? But you’d think the water would just carry all that away. Interested to hear more on the findings.
Guessing some larger bones might have partially made it through the implosion. Once the initial impact and super heating passes its instant cold from the sea water rushing in. Bones aren’t effected by the pressure of the water at the bottom of the ocean due to their nature being solid with any voids filled with blood/blood-cells.
They probably looked like what was left from the diving bell accident here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
I get the feeling it didn't fail quite as catastrophic as everyone is expecting. Seems like all the high pressure implosion explosion hypotheses were assume the ship made it to titanic depth, then had sudden failure. I really doubt it ever made it that far in one piece. It obviously failed in a way that blew it into several pieces, just maybe not quite as impressively as everyone was hoping for
Hopefully some billionaires view the narrative as a conspiracy and tinker up their own subs to find out.
My impression (maybe incorrect) is that the carbon hull imploded and shattered into a ton of little pieces, while maybe the metal exterior just kind of broke away at the seams.
They had contact with the surface 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive. Takes 2 hours to get to Titanic so they were pretty deep