Yeah, seems very poorly cobbled together. Kind of amazed that they got that
many billionaires to pile into the thing. Horror show for sure. They're
likely already past the rescue point, even if they find them.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 6:52 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
> What a horror show. There were so many ways they could have improved
> their
> chances at survival. Supposedly dissolvable straps should have dropped
> sand
> ballast by now. They had a way to mechanically drop steel ballast. And a
> inflatable bladder.
>
> Why not a power and comm tether to the mother ship? I realize it is
> 12,500'
> of cable but fiber optics are pretty much neutrally buoyant.
>
> But no underwater pinger. No ELT. How about a sat tel or VHF radio.
> Some
> kind of way to talk to the world. No high pressure air to blow tanks. I
> would have wanted explosive bolts on the hatch if there was no other way
> to
> get out. But why not some kind of fresh air intake assuming you could
> surface. This haunts my sleep.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Prince
> Tryin' to get my ass outa this cramped submarine.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 6/21/2023 3:10 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
> > Errbody dead?
> >
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