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David Pogue, who traveled to the Titanic with OceanGate last summer, has said that he was on the control ship when a previous sub was "lost for about 5 hours".
by spatialaustin 3y ago
David Pogue, who traveled to the Titanic with OceanGate last summer, has said that he was on the control ship when a previous sub was "lost for about 5 hours".
Source: https://twitter.com/Pogue/status/1670835763536183297 https://twitter.com/Pogue/status/1670835763536183297
- wnevets 3y ago> and they shut off the ship’s internet to prevent us from tweeting. Some how that makes it even worse.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoSeems obvious how that makes it worse.
- carbine 3y agoI try to have a generous read of everyone's intentions, but that anecdote is alarming.
- Jarmsy 3y agoAnd the author is revealing this only now!? That's not a great look, being witness to massive safety violations and keeping quiet about it until after it goes wrong.
- jonathankoren 3y agoJesus. This sounds like this group is just taking billionaires' money while running a death trap. How the hell do you lose your sub for five hours? This should have stopped all trips until they fixed this problem through a combination of technical and procedural changes.
- spaceguillotine 3y agowhen you put it like that i'm suddenly pro death trap
- pastacacioepepe 3y agocool username.
- wayvey 3y ago[flagged]
- prawn 3y agoTheir business model is to take wealthy explorers and also researchers, hoping that the explorers subsidise the researchers. So there is collateral damage.
- taway1874 3y agoRobinhood Travel Company
- iab 3y agoInstead of a honey-trap, it’s a money-trap
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- JayPalm 3y agoAt least the user name is mostly relevant.
- wanderingjew 3y ago[flagged]
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- yazzku 3y agoI was skeptical of this at first, but then the song in the marketing video changed my mind.
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- orbital-decay 3y ago> This sounds like this group is just taking billionaires' money while running a death trap. What if people pay for that exactly because it's risky and potentially fatal?
- bastawhiz 3y agoI mean, if you accept that what you're doing is inherently unethical and immoral (I made a death trap but I'll let you pay to ride in it anyway instead of fixing it because you like danger and I like money!), then there's really no limit to the kind of terrible things you can put out into the world. But most of us would stop and reconsider what we're doing.
- fullstop 3y agoMitchell and Webb had some fantastic skits about this: https://youtu.be/DTcBWo4Aj0g https://youtu.be/DTcBWo4Aj0g https://youtu.be/xXSRvQlALMA https://youtu.be/xXSRvQlALMA
- mvkel 3y agoNot very sustainable if you're killing billionaires.
- systemtest 3y agoIs there some sort of underwater "GPS" tracker they can use to track the sub?
- minedwiz 3y agoCommunicating with submarines is actually a nightmare. The saltwater ruins most radio communications, so you have no chance to receive GPS signals, which are pretty weak even on the surface. One thing the military does/did to communicate with subs is use low-bandwidth text-only very low frequency radio, but you need colossal transmitters and there's no way the mother ship carries one. Hydrophones are also an option, and IIRC NATO even has a working sound-based modem to transmit digital signals to subs, but not sure if that has spread in the civilian market.
- scarnz 3y agoI concur. Message is authentic.
- camel_gopher 3y agoMessage is authentic. Set condition 1-SQ.
- bombcar 3y agoThe easiest way for a sub to communicate with the surface is to launch an icbm. Or fire a torpedo and detonate it.
- Prickle 3y agoMilitary submarines also have a towed communications buoy that they can use to communicate with satellites. But that thing is connected to the submersible via a cable.
- closewith 3y agoEven then, ELF is only available down to depths of hundreds of metres, not kilometres.