When they say “crush depth”, they mean “CRUSH depth”! It’s not, “creak, groan, leak, gush”, it’s “BOOM!”
I wouldn’t risk a single life to recover dead bodies. Even if I was a family member of one of the deceased, I wouldn’t want more lives to be lost. Let them join the Titanic Graveyard. It’s a fitting place considering the risk they took to get there.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet, but we are talking about a given amount of air for five people. Not just any people, but two billionaires, the son of a billionaire and the captain, who seems to believe he belongs to that circle. Those are the kind of persons who in such a situation I would suspect of thinking: “Wait a minute, if I kill the others, there is more airtime for me” and to act accordingly. And knowing that the others have the same thoughts only makes action more urgent.
That is assuming it is not full of water, which changes the density of the sub in a very unfavourable way and makes my first point moot.
That is a completely normal, even expected behaviour at funerals where I live.
And then you’d be arrested after they rescued you.
No offense, but I don’t think our posts are making news, and I doubt the families could possibly have any clue what we are up to.
I mean, if I’m wrong, I’m happy to apologize to the poster who is close to this story.
Otherwise, gallows humor is definitely one way that people handle the thought of horrific tragedy. Consider it a coping mechanism.
Self defense. And a harrowing movie plot.
Sending them a QSL card is problematic.
“One of the passengers went nuts and started strangling people. When he came for me, I was able to strangle him!”
But is it OK to joke about cracks?
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Or at least a play. From My Dinner with Andre:
Wally: By the way…uh…did you ever see that play…uh…”The Violets are Blue”?
Andre: No.
Wally: Oh, when…when you mentioned the violets, it…it reminded me of that. It…it was about…um…people being…uh…strangled on a…on a submarine.
Some non-zero amount of risk must be acceptable, even if it’s just the risk of a rescue ship sinking enroute to the site. But yes, risk policies for recovery operations (where you’re trying to collect dead bodies and equipment) tend to be much more conservative than for search/rescue operations (where you’re trying to save trapped/stranded people before they die). That’s always been the case, and I wouldn’t expect it to be any different here.
This is similar to the design of (at least some) pressurized-cabin aircraft, i.e. a hemispherical pressure dome covered by a fairing or other structure that exhibits a non-hemispherical shape.
He said there was a “limit” to safety, telling Pogue: “You know, at some point, safety is just pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.”
Rush added that his Titan sub features, and trips to the Titanic wreck, can be done outside of what’s been previously done, saying: “I think I can do this just as safely while breaking the rules.”
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Well, if you want blatant, crazy speculation:
Whatever went wrong (other than total immediate crushing) the company guy on-board immediately realizes that they are in deep, deep shit. After all, he’d been getting those warnings and, no doubt, zillions of meetings over how screwed things would be if any of a myriad things go bad.
So he swiftly pulls out the ninja knife he’d brought along, just in case, y’know? and slaughtered the other four passengers.
Bingo! He has now got five times as many hours of (increasingly putrid smelling) air to breathe while some amazing rescue is carried out.
Too bad the other passengers didn’t read all the micro print on those release forms. Not only do they say the captain is empowered to take whatever steps are needed to ensure at least somebody survives, but the remaining survivor(s) also become the sole heir(s) to all the estates of those who perish. Nice little bonus, eh?
On the assumption that if the pressure hull has not been compromised and that this group is (or was) otherwise alive and well for some time period of hours or days, it can be inferred there were undoubtedly very “interesting” conversations to be had. I’ve wondered if they have their cell phones, iPads, laptops and similar devices to record their expedition for posterity should the vessel be retrieved intact at some point.
Only one hundred feet of water, IIRC.
Don’t know when they stopped using the towers, but the one in Groton was closed when I went through SubScol in '82, and the one at Pearl was closed by the time I got there in '86. The Groton tower was torn down in the '90s, but the one at Pearl is still there.
And that for what…? To face a life imprisonment sentence when or if he were rescued as the sub’s sole occupant, for having killed the other 4?
Ah, but you see, if was one of the OTHER four who killed the first three passengers. Our valiant survivor simply killed that murderer in self defense.
I’m sure a billionaire can hire a whole lot of lawyers to argue the case for a few decades.
There are some people who adhere to the radical opinion that is better to be alive, even if in judicial jeopardy, than dead.
Crazy, I know.