# "Titan" submersible investigation begins \[28-June-2023\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [June 28, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titan-submersible-investigation-begins-28-june-2023/986242 "2023-06-28T16:34:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 260
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> [@PastTense](#): > > [I didn’t know it had this.] What are the odds it turns out to be a cassette tape that was spun through the recorder by a hamster on a wheel? Poor little fella. It deserved better. More seriously, they might only be referring to the _support_ vessel. While that _one sentence_ is a bit ambiguous, every other usage of the word “vessel” is clearly in reference to the support vessel (for example: the support vessel _Polar Prince_, the Canadian-flagged vessel _Polar Prince_, etc). While _Titan_ itself seems to be referred to consistently throughout as a submersible, and never a “vessel” (for example: the submersible _Titan_). In which case, it might be as simple as whatever hard drive stores chat and/or position data. Which wouldn’t be too surprising. It common nowadays for ships to use electronic charts for navigation and such. Reminds me of that thread about [the pitfalls of nuance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laws-in-multilingual-countries-the-pitfalls-of-nuance/986785) and whether “vessel” means “canoe” (turns out it does—but I could have told them that for half the price of a fancy Canadian lawyer). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titan-submersible-investigation-begins-28-june-2023/986242)._