I seriously can’t believe they don’t have at least an EPIRB. If they had one, the entire “they might be on the surface” idea could pretty much be ruled out.
Yes, of course! An EPIRB!
… what is an EPIRB?
An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats, a portable, battery-powered radio transmitter used in emergencies to locate boaters in distress and in need of immediate rescue.
It gets worse even if the sub made it to the surface it they are unable to find the sub before the oxygen runs out everyone will still die since the sub has no way open the hatch and its sealed to be airtight.
I thought we all learned this lesson with Apollo 1.
There’s a lot about OceanGate that confuses and alarms me but the thing on my mind this afternoon is why there isn’t any way for the people inside to get out without an external crew. That just seems insane—all those ways to theoretically ensure the Titan makes it to the surface in case of emergency but then you just bob there, oxygen running out, too bad? (And the submersible is white?! Not neon orange?? I hate everything about this.)
On why the missing vessel has not yet been located We really have no idea. I mean, the waves are six feet high. It’s all whitecaps. The sub itself is white.
The more i read about this the dumber it gets.
At least there are failsafes to bring it back up. If it wasn’t too deep if i understand correctly
"There are two pilots, one of which is Stockton Rush, the sub’s designer and the CEO, and he drives the sub with a game controller … It has the right levers and buttons to go up, down, left, right and so on.
This thing is controlled with a game controller. Image the reason for this whole situation is a fucking xbox one plastic controller (just if that is the case).
Edit: Apparently all failsaves should have brought the sub up to the surface, even if the crew is uncouncious.
I found the game controller thing strange at the beginning, too. But then I heard that the Us Navy is using them, too. Although not for steering but for their periscopes.
What I find really dumb is that the crew is bolted in from outside and there is no mechanism to open the vessel from the inside.
Not that it matters much when you’re drifting on the open ocean.
And not painting the thing yellow or orange or something that pops, especially when it’s not connected to a ship via cables and when the crew can’t open the hatch themselves.
What I found kind of amusing is that people pay a quarter million and then have to take turns looking out a small window.
