From what I’ve read, The vessel they’re in can only be opened by the contact vessel from the outside. So they could literally be floating on the top of the ocean, with no way of getting oxygen into the pod. oh and the disclaimer they signed stated 3 times on the first page that there is a risk of death!
please log in to view this image If it is built like this bad boy they should be fine. Never had a controller lasted so long. From my Atari 2600, through my C64 right up to my Amiga.
must never have played 'Daley Thompsons athletics' (forget the full name now) ...it was well known as the joystick fecker.
apologies, went off track there. the more i read about this vessel makes me think that once you go in you are really left with no help whatsoever if disaster strikes, even if they had the sense to include some emergency 'flotation' device they cannot get more air into the vessel unless by some chance they actually get spotted bobbing around the ocean..i know they all have to basically sign their lives away it just seems ridiculous to have no reliable communications or back up vessels that can be launched when a problem arises, especially as losing contact happens regular.
Aye, all I've got to say on the matter is....their families should expect the worst now. Oxygen surely has run out, or will run out VERY soon.
At this point I'd be inclined to strangle the owner and pilot to prolong the oxygen supply ... ... sorry but it's how I'd be feeling, especially if my son was there.
According to bbc, 40 hours of oxygen left. That's if it hasn't already ruptured..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941
I am trying to think how I would be coping if I was onboard. No idea to be honest, doubt anyone can imagine. I am pretty calm and unflappable at work, I hate it when people get emotional and unreasonable. Probably by now I would be a gibbering idiot mind.
Reports now been aired that the founder was warned about an experimental approach. Based on a letter of 5 years ago. It might be they are still experimental, or it might be they have moved on since 2018. Either way I think the media need to be shot with **** for reporting it now. It seems the only qualification needed to work in media these days is to be able to browse google and quote any old rubbish without sense checking it.
Correct about journalists mind, of whom there are very few left, and almost none working in the MSM. You have to have the right view on everything now to work for the BBC etc, and you are required to frame your story through the appropriate one.
It explains it entirely! A reporter, as they were once called, was a trade to learn, supplemented by college courses. The best would develop into senior reporters, sometimes given space to air a view. Now, as with so much else, a University degree is required. This leads them to think they are "investigative" reporters, instead of just reporting the facts basically and truthfully. This is beyond them, so everything is presented through the prism of opinion they have been taught. They cannot just state the facts, which is what news actually is. They rely on click baiting, and the hope of "unearthing" a story, like the pathetic Carole Cadwallader, who has to apologise repeatedly for writing untruths, " her truths" she once attempted to explain!! She also by the way faces a massive bill for costs awarded against her. Too many of them seem to think they are Carl Bernstein, (or Bob Woodward who was never a reporter anyway actually, but that's another story- pun intended!)
US Coast Guard have reported banging noises from the search area. The noises lasted four hours and came every thirty minutes. So there's hope. It makes me wonder why these people aren't involved. https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/Ne...mpletes-submarine-rescue-exercise-off-alaska/
Comparisons are being made to fuss being made about this 'sub' and the hundreds who died (including children) in the refugee boat off Greece.
It's a big news story, because it's like an episode of Thunderbirds, and quite dramatic. There's well warranted sympathy for people in an horrendous situation. But because the media won't want to offend anyone some of the more unpleasant aspects won't be mentioned. It's clearly a daft thing to do, is costing thousands/millions and risking the safety of many people. Planes and boats are searching the Atlantic with poor visibility and high seas. The passengers are being described as 'adventurers' when, in reality, they're just sitting there being taken to look at a wreck. Saying those things would see any media lambasted but it's true imo.
I'm afraid that's right. It's a vanity trip. Good luck to them if they have the cash and inclination, but whatever they see in the gloomy blackness two miles down under the sea, with a few battery lights to pick out the wreck, will not be as clear as the stuff the remote vessels have already come up with. As far as I understand it, this vessel only visits this particular site for paying passengers. If that is true, then it's all some awful and extremely dangerous joyride. I hope they get them back, but this isn't some noble cause being rescued.
