Titan Sub Implosion Audio Released For the First Time (jalopnik.com) 34
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Jalopnik: Experimental submarine the Titan sank in June 2023 while exploring the wreck of the Titanic. The controversial craft imploded while deep beneath the surface of the ocean killing five people onboard, and now a recording of the Titan's final moments has been shared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [...] In the clip, which is available to hear [here], the static sound of the ocean is shattered by a great rumble, which sounds almost like a wave crashing against the beach.
It's this noise that is thought to be the total failure of the Titan, as LBC adds: "It is believed that the noise is the 'acoustic signature' of the sub imploding on 18th June 2023. It was recorded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration device about 900 miles from where the sub was last seen on radar, south of Newfoundland, Canada, US Coast Guard officials announced. The five crew members who died onboard the sub were British explorer sub were Hamish Harding, 58, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman, 19, French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet (known as 'Mr Titanic'), 77, and and co-founder of the submarines owner's company OceanGate, Stockton Rushton, 61."
It's this noise that is thought to be the total failure of the Titan, as LBC adds: "It is believed that the noise is the 'acoustic signature' of the sub imploding on 18th June 2023. It was recorded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration device about 900 miles from where the sub was last seen on radar, south of Newfoundland, Canada, US Coast Guard officials announced. The five crew members who died onboard the sub were British explorer sub were Hamish Harding, 58, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman, 19, French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet (known as 'Mr Titanic'), 77, and and co-founder of the submarines owner's company OceanGate, Stockton Rushton, 61."
Heard It (Score:2)
This recording was (leaked?) in the wild a long time ago. I remember listening to it.
RIP (Score:2, Redundant)
Very tragic. Listening to the audio brings a pit to my stomach. I hope they didn't have time to contemplate what was about to happen.
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Darwin Award winner applications are rarely tragic.
A family getting wiped out by a drunk driver is tragic. Some dumbasses dying by diving deep under water in cast off trash steered by a ps4 controller is just stupid.
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I'm not terribly bothered by some men old enough to know better going for a deep sea dive and not coming back. They must have had some understanding of the risks. What upsets me is hearing that a 19 year old felt pressured into going on this dive by his father then paying the ultimate price for it. I realize that there's an argument that this young man was also old enough to know better but with his father influencing the decision there's the factor that the father should have known to respect his son's
Re: RIP (Score:2)
It could be argued that Stockton Rush murdered these people (and himself). Only he knew how technically crappy his "submersible" was.
Only for him, the case is clearly a Darwin award.
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Murder would be hard to prove. Probable Cause, wreckless homicide maybe, negligent homicide for sure. Premeditated willful ending of human lives? Not so much. That requires intent or at the very least operating with malice.
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It could be argued that Stockton Rush murdered these people (and himself). Only he knew how technically crappy his "submersible" was.
False. Everyone who was paying attention (HINT HINT) knew before the sub even dove. We knew about the repurposed and expired carbon fiber pressure vessel, we knew about the window's inadequate crush depth rating, we knew about the COTS wireless controller. We the idle jerkoffs did more research into the lack of safety than the people getting on the sub did. Those people volunteered to be test dummies by going in ignorance.
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Darwin Awards are not issued for people that lacked the mental capacity to understand the risks of the activity that killed them because of youth or other factors. At 19 years old this is a borderline case.
He was old enough to join the army, get married, have kids, raise kids ...
Unless he was impaired and under guardianship, it was his decision. (Unless, I suppose, if his dad was going to throw him on the street by morning or something.)
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a 19 year old felt pressured
Well, you got that right.
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On the plus side, the implosion would have been near-instantaneous. Certainly fast
So the human brain doesn't finish developing (Score:2)
Maybe stuff like c-sections will change that over a long time frame but it's going to be thousands of years. Heck we might eventually start using artificial wombs. For all the whiny dystopian sci-fi around them if you actually had them and they worked I can't ima
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steered by a ps4 controller
I don't know why people keep making a big deal out of this. It's a submersible, not a submarine. That controller wasn't even critical to its operation. The only way it could have been is if they were planning on doing a penetrating dive, which would be beyond stupid in any manned craft, and as far as I know they weren't planning on it.
There were real issues with it, but a fucking playstation controller wasn't one of them. Namely:
1. The carbon fiber hull was built like shit
2. The carbon fiber hull wasn't tes
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Using a toy controller for *anything* is symbolic of how shitty the rest of the build was.
If they had a ps4 on board to display educational videos then sure but to use one in *any* other way is madness.
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I never cared that much about the ps4 controller. Have spare ones aboard just in case and I guess you are fine.
Almost everybody was agreeing that a carbon fiber hull was crazy for a submarine going that deep and it's where he messed up IMHO along with the glued rings. All experts said they'd never use any kind of carbon fiber hull for such a submarine. It's just the wrong material according to them.
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The game controller would make sense as a secondary option because you could hand that to a regular person and let them pile it the sub around a little bit. As the only option for controlling the sub it's insane
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Pretty much true - the implosion really only took a couple of milliseconds to occur, while the nerve signals to the brain take around 10ms or so. So basically you've been crushed into a pulp long before the brain gets the image from the eyes of the implosion or your nerves reporting feeling compressed.
And honestly, in this day and age, I guess most people wouldn't really care about the victims - given what billionaires are helping themselves to the US economy and such these days.
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I've read there may have been a power failure before it happened so it was probably an very scaring few minutes beforehand if true.
Personally my sympathy for the adults is limited, they knew the risks. I feel REALLY sorry for the young boy who went along who apparently didn't want to go but did it because his dad was going.
Diesel engine exploration from inside the cylinder (Score:1)
Person after person told them not to use a sub constructed this way and still that Rush guy just kept on going.
Stupidy and arrogance... (Score:2)
... is a very dangerous combination.
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Throw a heap of money on that fire and you have a trifecta for disaster.
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Sounds like any American entrepreneur.
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He did not listen because "you are remembered for the rules you break".
and on that one, he quoted correctly. He is now remembered for the rules he broke.
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No screams? Feh.
"Controversial" (Score:2)
Re: "Controversial" (Score:2)
It was inspirational, or at least Me. Rush said so.
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What was controversial about it? I don't recall anyone defending the vessel, CEO, or company... It was pretty much an open-and-closed case of hubris and negligence.
I don’t understand either. It’s standard tech bro behavior to move fast and break things and that sub wasn’t exactly fast.
I didn't realize... (Score:2)
... the sound of hubris and narcissism was so rumbly.