Commercial submarine ($250,000 per ticket) exploring Titanic loses contact w/ 5 onboard, 4 days of oxygen

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just got around to reading yesterday's orlando sentinel (yeah i still get paper delivery) and on the first page was this story about a local winter park couple that filed a lawsuit against the oceangate CEO in march for fraud. marc and sharon hagle paid oceangate to be apart of the first expedition that was suppose to take place in june 2018 and it kept getting postponed year after year until this faithful trip. the lucky b*stards.
 

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I’m sitting here bugging out at how 500 years ago nikkas like Magellan and Christopher Columbus got on a boat and said fukk it let’s just see where this takes us and went sailing on the sea with no technology

You can’t see shyt out there at night :mindblown:


Muthafukkas were insane to do that shyt!
They weren't the only ones. The ancient Polynesians had less technology than them and they did they same thing. Inhabited damn near every island in the south pacific.

The Mali Empire also sailed across the Atlantic...although there is no definitive proof that they made it.
 

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They weren't the only ones. The ancient Polynesians had less technology than them and they did they same thing. Inhabited damn near every island in the south pacific.

The Mali Empire also sailed across the Atlantic...although there is no definitive proof that they made it.
Incredible
 

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"David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew were likely to be experiencing, saying that there was currently "no way" to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio "work under water"."


GPS doesn't work underwater? :wtf: then how tf do scientists tag and track sharks/whales for months/years at a time? What kind of bogus rinkydink GPS where these MFers using for this sub?
Some of yall really need to hit up some basic physics concepts lol


First, sharks and whales cannot exist at such depth, they'd implode just as these humans did. Most creatures that live at this depth are pretty much water. Water is non compressible. Anything with gaseous entities such as lungs gills etc get crushed. The pressure at this depth is crazy.

Also, sharks and whales and their food need sunlight to live.



Speaking of sunlight, at this depth it's also sunless (obviously as light can only go so far) and also, your waves used by GPS cannot travel through water. There is a reason sonar tech is used instead. None of wifi, GPS, radio etc electromagnetic signals can go through water. They can go through air or lack of air (vacuum). They can't penetrate water very well because water, especially saltwater, is an electrical conductor and waves just get absorbed. Put a full construction grade steel metal encasing over your wifi router and see how you will have zero signal.
 
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