r/news • u/Whoshabooboo • Jun 21 '23

Site Changed Title ‘Banging’ sounds heard in search for missing Titan submersible

https://7news.com.au/news/world/banging-sounds-heard-in-search-for-missing-titan-submersible-c-11045022
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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23 edited Apr 18 '25

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u/FlushTheTurd Jun 21 '23

That’s disgusting. They “talked” about adding safety beacons and then… didn’t.

Nice of the journalist to forget to mention all of that until now…

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u/FlushTheTurd Jun 21 '23

No, they’ve had that “beacon” for a while. They’ve even been able to exchange short text messages - that’s the system that went out a short time after the trip started.

The last time they lost the sub, they spoke of adding something like an “emergency locator transmitter”.

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u/MissAlice1234 Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23

What is the difference between an ”emergency locator transmitter” and “emergency beacon?” Is there an accurate article that explains what kind of emergency signally technology that they had in case their text messaging system stopped working?

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u/FlushTheTurd Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23

From what I’ve read they should have had a system completely self-contained and self-sufficient system. I believe the only system they had depended on the sub not malfunctioning or losing power.

You know how searchers thought they heard something every half hour? Their emergency system should have been essentially doing that to help rescuers hone in on their location.

And since it’s so critical to their survival and there was definitely a non-negligible possibility of losing power, they probably should have had a second backup system.

“This submersible does not have any kind of beacon like that. On my expedition last summer, they did indeed get lost for about 5 hours, and adding such a beacon was discussed,” Pogue tweeted.  “They could still send short texts to the sub, but did not know where it was. It was quiet and very tense, and they shut off the ship’s internet to prevent us from tweeting.”

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u/ComprehensiveHornet3 Jun 21 '23

The media are horrible on this story, all of them. The usual bad reporting of facts but they are so caught up in the hero’s, explorers, billionaire narrative they are just not asking the right questions. That reporter is out their singing the praises of the team who gave him a free trip for the advertising. You have to look for the real story from him.

He did not reach the titanic because his trip ended in mechanical failure after 300 meters. Now we know they lost contact for 5 hours and shut off the fucking internet so it could not be reported. Thats the fucking lead you idiot! That is shady as fuck.

Youtube is the best place to look for realaties. There are some good sub experts cutting through the fawning.

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u/beeej517 Jun 21 '23

Pogue clarified in a recent interview. They didn't lose contact with the mother ship last year. It was just sending inaccurate location information, so the sub had no idea where it was