For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).

They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?

  • Chessmasterrex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The submersible was suppose to automatically lose it’s ballast and surface on it’s own in an emergency situation, and that didn’t happen. A reasonable explanation for this is that it imploded.

    • JeffCraig@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure how quickly that process happens. I heard that the hooks that hold the ballast slowly dissolve in salt water, and the ballast will eventually fall off, but there was no information on how long that process would take.

      I’m assuming that it isn’t necessarily an emergency system, and it could be weeks for that to happen. Seems more of a recovery system that an emergency system.