Optigrab
Optigrab
Fun fact: I toured the USS Cobia earlier today and had the good fortune to have a veteran of the subsequent submarine class along and willing to talk at any opportunity. I got him to go into detail on the escape trunks.
Yeaaah... they sound great until you're looking at one. Especially the telescoping one in the aft torpedo room that has to be ASSEMBLED before you can use it. You seal yourself in a steel pipe the size of a casket and then open a valve to flood said casket with water before cracking the hatch and swimming out without accidentally swimming off into the superstructure and drowning.
It's scary, man. And only good for a couple hundred feet.
I'd do it.I never heard of such a thing as underwater tourism. It's sounds like somthing I might have considered... until about 3 days ago. Two and a half miles below the ocean's surface is pretty dang deep.
Also depends on the sub's propulsion.I did some looking around to satisfy my curiosity. One theory I read said the inside of the sub essentially becomes like the combustion chamber of a diesel engine. The air and hydrocarbons(people) are compressed until it all ignites.
This is why I don't see any point of spending taxpayer money on bring up debris. What of any value could possibly be learned by analyzing this thing compared to the cost of bringing it up. Professionals that design these kinds of things would probably just roll their eyes. If the lawyers of the deceased want it as evidence for their lawsuits than let them pay for the recovery.I'd do it.
But not in some bargain basement hunk of junk created in someone's backyard.
Cause you still learn how things happen, and use that knowledge in the future.This is why I don't see any point of spending taxpayer money on bring up debris. What of any value could possibly be learned by analyzing this thing compared to the cost of bringing it up. Professionals that design these kinds of things would probably just roll their eyes. If the lawyers of the deceased want it as evidence for their lawsuits than let them pay for the recovery.
Did he give this little pep talk to the passengers that lost their lives as well before they got on board?
And the utterly ignorant and / or incompetent who have only disdain for those with experience have NO idea where that line is.I think that statement is correct.
Nothing wrong with it.
But... it's predicated on the "there is a limit".
You have to do things safe, make things safe.
Cause one day, it may not be safe, and you need all your sh*t to work.
I thought you were the “jumping the Grand Canyon “ type…Eh. This is pretty much how I'd anticipate dying if I won a hundred million in the lottery. Or a rocket explosion.
"Yo, you hear about Ark? He built a replica of an X15 in his garage and launched it off a 737 he bought from a scrapyard!"
"Wow! How'd it go?"
"Oh, disintegrated immediately. Obviously."
OceanGate's sketchy experimental application of aerospace tech in his effort to "innovate", paired with his choice to not hire boring old white veteran submariners brings to mind that old aviation adage: "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots."Maybe they shoulda hired those boring old white dudes after all?
Sure there are,OceanGate's sketchy experimental application of aerospace tech in his effort to "innovate", paired with his choice to not hire boring old white veteran submariners brings to mind that old aviation adage: "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots."
Stockton Rush just proved the same is true for submariners.
Actually, no. Its the Germans who seem to have a naval tradition of scuttling.The French sink their boats on purpose