They must of had a catastrophic event, like an implosion. Otherwise, they would have used the ballasts to surface if anything manageable went wrong.
I read somewhere that they didn't think they made it to the wreckage. They lost contact 1.5 hours in, and it usually takes 2 hours to reach the wreckage.
Not a navy guy, but How in the world does that submersible not have an extremely loud transmit only sonar ping capability for emergency? Like and ELT on a plane. Run it on a battery. Can’t be that complex or expensive.
Been hoping there is a miracle and they can be brought up alive. Really doubt it happens, but think what a great movie it would make. Don’t forget about the miracle of the kids in the cave that flooded. That rescue was against all odds, too.
If it was catastrophic they wouldn’t be banging. This is so depressing. The company shouldn’t been in operation and the customers should have done a modicum of due diligence. CNN interviewed a guy scheduled to go who called it off for that very reason. Off the self parts no safety cert and a freaking game controller for steerage. That’s probably the issue right there. That or a pissed off right whale.
Battery dead in nintendo controller, squid ate the antenna, methane explosion in the toilet? I wonder if there were any redundancy with manual safeties or all fly by wire.
I really hope this was sincere and not the way it comes off… ***edit…it was the way it comes off/posts after sadly confirm***
We don’t know if the banging is actually them. Supposedly they had redundancies to resurface the sub (someone above suggested 7 layers of systems?), which is obviously concerning that it didn’t work. I would hope part of the redundancy is a manual mechanism. But again, if that was the case they’d have been spotted floating on the ocean surface by now, not pinging in the depths. If everything was relying on a video game controller… well.
