The "pings" they heard for a couple of days may have given them an unreasonable hope that they were still working on a rescue... but the reports of the "pings" just reminded me of an old "Twilight Zone" episode where a guy was hearing similar pings just after WWII, and it turned out to be the ghosts of his dead buddies who all went down in a submarine during the war, where he was the only survivor. They were "pinging" at him to come join them...
I was pretty sure they were goners since there was a sudden cessation of check-ins and no sonar contacts thereafter... and then when the sub failed to bob back up to the surface like it was engineered to do in case of non-catastrophic failures, and said so in the shout box, but when that pinging was being reported, it kinda creeped me out.
The 15 year old kid was reported to have been terrified before they went down, and his family said the only reason he went was to please his dad, who also died in the implosion. It's likely that it happened so fast he never had time for the thought of "I shoulda stood my ground on this one...".
I wonder how long it'll be before they start posting pictures of the debris field. I'm guessing they'll try to retrieve the parts for an investigation, and maybe the bodies if they can find them.
I think it might be good practice from here on out to send ROV's down with every dive, so that more immediate information is available for faster reaction times in searches. Limiting dives to "tethered" submersibles might be a good idea, too, as opposed to the untethered ones as the Titan was.
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I was pretty sure they were goners since there was a sudden cessation of check-ins and no sonar contacts thereafter... and then when the sub failed to bob back up to the surface like it was engineered to do in case of non-catastrophic failures, and said so in the shout box, but when that pinging was being reported, it kinda creeped me out.
The 15 year old kid was reported to have been terrified before they went down, and his family said the only reason he went was to please his dad, who also died in the implosion. It's likely that it happened so fast he never had time for the thought of "I shoulda stood my ground on this one...".
I wonder how long it'll be before they start posting pictures of the debris field. I'm guessing they'll try to retrieve the parts for an investigation, and maybe the bodies if they can find them.
I think it might be good practice from here on out to send ROV's down with every dive, so that more immediate information is available for faster reaction times in searches. Limiting dives to "tethered" submersibles might be a good idea, too, as opposed to the untethered ones as the Titan was.
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