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Titanic (official thread)

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Abenaki said:
You guys can make light of it, say they deserved it and whatever else. I can't imagine many worse fates than sitting next to my son and watching him slowly die over the course of 90+ hours and knowing I was the one responsible for it.

Was it stupid? Yes. The outcome is still cruel.
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Very true but all of us 50 year white guys are feeling kind of vindicated
 
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How many debris fields are in that area? Aside from chunks of the Titanic that may have drifted away from the main wreckage, that area also saw a good bit of the Battle Of The Atlantic. I'll be interested to find out if it imploded because I read that military hydrophones in the Atlantic are so sensitive that an implosion would have sounded like an explosion to them at great distance. Of course, the military could very well be keeping it secret.
 
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5 STAR U-G-A said:
Crazy to think that over 100 years later, that exact same stretch of water in a vast ocean claims more lives.
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Not sure what television is reporting in the US, but what we have seen are interviews with people who did not take places on the trip because they had reservations about the safety of that submarine. Most refuse to say more, but one did say that an observation window had a pressure rating of less than 5,000 feet (IIRC) and that a correctly rated window would have cost four times as much. Another mentioned that there were several systems problems on a testing dive. I continue to think that it is most likely this submarine imploded 1:45 into the dive when communication ceased. I just don't understand what one gains by going to the wreck. After all, there were all of those touring Titanic displays around the world that allowed you to experience what it might have been like walking through the ship. It's very sad, I think.
 
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There are many sad facets to this story. But the saddest, and most ironic, is the CEO displaying a very similar type of hubris that led to the Titanic sinking.

Whereas the people who built the Titanic thought it was too big to sink, OceanGate's CEO thought that he could "outsmart" the ocean, building a craft with the same attitude and processes that a software start-up employs while trying to get traction in hopes of obtaining VC funding.

In one case they thought they could overpower the ocean. In the other, they thought they could outsmart it.

While there are some distinctions in the details of their hubris, in both cases people did not respect the power of the ocean.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
How many debris fields are in that area? Aside from chunks of the Titanic that may have drifted away from the main wreckage, that area also saw a good bit of the Battle Of The Atlantic. I'll be interested to find out if it imploded because I read that military hydrophones in the Atlantic are so sensitive that an implosion would have sounded like an explosion to them at great distance. Of course, the military could very well be keeping it secret.
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So the fun part is at that depth, if/when they had a failure, when the bulkhead lets go, the air gets compressed so quickly it will literally flash fire, meaning whoever was on it incinerated before they drowned.
 
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