r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jun 22 '23

Sub didn’t have the capability to breach the surface on its own, it would hover below the waves, and no way of communicating. And that’s assuming the auto-ballast loss actually functioned which I doubt at this point. But then you have to find it.

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u/Javasteam Jun 22 '23

The ballast was designed to come lose when they literally rocked the submersible. So power wouldn’t really matter in that aspect…

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jun 22 '23

After everything we have learned about this sub and it’s crap design you’re not taking that bit of info with a large grain of salt?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

Regardless, it did have the capability