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Just to nit pick, what good is an exit going to do at 12,000 feet?
by ghostpepper 3y ago
Just to nit pick, what good is an exit going to do at 12,000 feet?
- harambae 3y agoThe exit would've been for if they surfaced (that plus a life raft presumably)
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- wespiser_2018 3y agoWhen you have a fire and need to surface, it's going to do a lot of good. One of the Apollo crews burned alive because the ground crew couldn't unscrew the hatch fast enough during a pre-flight checkout. One of those astronauts, Gus Grisham, nearly died a previous time when the explosive bolts on another capsule fired early which caused the capsule to take on water. The problems here are just several fold: maybe the door won't help you at depth, but there's a pretty wide envelope of conditions in which a fast escape hatch is the difference between surviving a fire and burning alive. The CEO of OceanGate said he "learned the lessons of aviation", but this is obviously BS if he's locking himself in a capsule with flammable equipment, piping oxygen in, and just hoping it doesn't burn. That's a recipe for disaster we know how to avoid.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoCurrently, even if they could surface, they couldn't get out of the vessel because it's locked from the outside