Hope to god somehow the get out of this mess . Can't imagine how awful it must be ...like being buried alive . No way would you get me down in that thing for any money .
NATO apparently send down a sub looking for it but it wouldn't dive down deep enough. They had four days worth of oxygen to survive on.
Is it. Sub or submersible. The latter are connected to the mothership, so surely they could just hoist it up
It all sounds a bit Heath Robinson to me - ballast is scrap metal scaffold type poles. When they want to come up, everyone goes over to one side and the poles roll off - so simple until one of the poles gets stuck!
Horrible way to die - not just the oxygen, I assume the thing hasn't got a toilet, food, water. I'd have wanted some catastrophic failure were it me, at least it would be instant at that depth.
They don't appear to have a sonar-equipped ship available, or at least not one that can get there quickly enough.
It does have a loo apparently but they ask passengers not to eat or drink much before the voyage to reduce the need to use the “facilities “ such as they are.
Years ago I worked for GEC Marconi Materials and we produced GaAs wafers - one customer had search and rescue arrays where a downed pilot would switch on their beacon and it would burst transmit his/her location GaAs having 10 the switch speed of silicon for 1/10th the power. I'd have assumed a sub like this might have had a transmitter that would raise to the surface either tethered or not should it get into difficulty.
It could also have already risen to the surface. I was reading that only a small portion of it would be visible above the water making finding it on the surface almost as difficult as finding it on the seas bed. I also read that it’s sealed from the outside, so that even if it has risen the occupants still need rescuers to open it. There is still time though, hopefully they will still make it.
Stupid thing to want to do in the first place. Bunch of spoilt billionaires and chap who made a sub to take their money squashed to the size of a conker. Ah well. Next!
They wanted a thrill doing something dangerous. Nobody forced them to. If they survived they'd be spending their millions on tourist space flights. Something was going to get them eventually? Sorry, I find extreme wealth and the flaunting/wasting of it obscene.
