From what I can gather the Titan had made at least fifty successful dives and half of those were revenue generating.
Risky, of course, but not recklessly so.
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Mike Reiss, a writer and producer for "The Simpsons," took the same voyage to the Titanic with OceanGate Expeditions last year.
"I took four different dives with the company, one to the Titanic and three off of New York City, and communication was lost, at least briefly, every single time," Reiss told CNN on Tuesday. "It just seems baked into the system. I don't blame the submarine as much as I blame deep water, but you would always lose it and come back."
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Another article detailed how there were four redundant methods for the submersible to come back up in the event of an emergency.
The first was the pilot dropping the weights. This was done every time the craft dived.
The last was an automatic timer that released the weights after 24 hours.
Communication was lost at great depths, at least two miles below the ocean surface.
If the craft had surfaced, and the automatic release would have surely dropped the weights sometime Monday, the anti submarine forces of the USA and Canada would nearly certainly have located it already.
The vessel must have either imploded (unlikely given the design safety margins) or some other catastrophe happened two miles deep.
They are gone, by now.
But they were adventurers, not idiots.
Risky, of course, but not recklessly so.
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Mike Reiss, a writer and producer for "The Simpsons," took the same voyage to the Titanic with OceanGate Expeditions last year.
"I took four different dives with the company, one to the Titanic and three off of New York City, and communication was lost, at least briefly, every single time," Reiss told CNN on Tuesday. "It just seems baked into the system. I don't blame the submarine as much as I blame deep water, but you would always lose it and come back."
—-
Another article detailed how there were four redundant methods for the submersible to come back up in the event of an emergency.
The first was the pilot dropping the weights. This was done every time the craft dived.
The last was an automatic timer that released the weights after 24 hours.
Communication was lost at great depths, at least two miles below the ocean surface.
If the craft had surfaced, and the automatic release would have surely dropped the weights sometime Monday, the anti submarine forces of the USA and Canada would nearly certainly have located it already.
The vessel must have either imploded (unlikely given the design safety margins) or some other catastrophe happened two miles deep.
They are gone, by now.
But they were adventurers, not idiots.
