This tiny submarine 2.4 miles under the sea, visiting the relics of RMS Titanic. Can it be found and the crew saved before the air runs out?

[matticus]

Sorry. Yeah, it's different. Good point.
Didn't mean to bring something different in. Not like hill-walking, which you mentioned in your argument ...

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Sorry. Yeah, it's different. Good point.
Didn't mean to bring something different in. Not like hill-walking, which you mentioned in your argument ...

Me? I only responded to someone else that suggested it.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

What about hospital bill for someone not wearing a helmet, or participating in a dangerous sport like Rugby. How about someone making a mistake hillwalking in Scotland in the winter, or those Thai lads stuck in a cave

Yup
Mountain Rescue and the RNLI do not support the concept of charging for being rescued
even due to recklessness

 

[Alex321]

I think this event will result in a set of checks/certification being mandated, although I don't think it really necessary, but hey-ho. The codification of these will be relatively straightforward though - because they are what the entire community do/did already - apart from Mr Rush.

Mandated by who?

It could well be mandated by some governments, but we are talking about things well outside territorial waters here, so unless it is "mandated" equally by all nations with a coast, somebody who wants to bypass those mandates just need to build/sell/start from a country which doesn't have them.

 

[PK99]

Yup
Mountain Rescue and the RNLI do not support the concept of charging for being rescued
even due to recklessness

But getting down in a Blood Wagon from a French Ski Slope costs big bucks.

 

[Reynard]

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A lot of it is simply basic science & engineering - that was ignored in the pursuit of profit.

To quote Montgomery Scott, ye cannae change the laws of physics...

 

[Reynard]

Mandated by who?

It could well be mandated by some governments, but we are talking about things well outside territorial waters here, so unless it is "mandated" equally by all nations with a coast, somebody who wants to bypass those mandates just need to build/sell/start from a country which doesn't have them.

But surely it would affect things like insurance and stuff. And the backlash if thing go wrong. As they did in this instance.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I really think governments have better things to be doing with their time than worrying about a problem (the certification of deep sea submersibles) that has cost 5 lives this year. Maybe this decade. Maybe this century, I dunno.

To put that into some kind of perspective, there were 1,695 road fatalities in the UK alone in 2022. That's just under 5 a day. Roughly the same. One highly newsworthy incident does not mean that Something Must Be Done.

An expensive sub failed and some people were killed. Very sad. But not a cause for any policy change. Maybe when they are being lost at the rate of one a week or one a day ... then it will get to compete with other things in the Something Must Be Done queue.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I have a good deal of sympathy with this pov

 

[matticus]

To quote Montgomery Scott, ye cannae change the laws of physics...

Said the man in charge of teleporters and hyperspace tech.

 

[captain nemo1701]

What about hospital bill for someone not wearing a helmet, or participating in a dangerous sport like Rugby. How about someone making a mistake hillwalking in Scotland in the winter, or those Thai lads stuck in a cave

On the Thai one, never really understood why they went so far into it. I understand they were sheltering from rain?. If that happens out in town, I'll stand in a shop doorway, not venture into the basement....

On the sub note, I do get tired of the use of 'hero', and 'scientific exploration' (and former PM's writing £15k-a-shot articles) in such situations. Are we all 'heroic' for getting in aluminium cylinders with wings?. There is also no real science or exploration to be done to further human knowledge. These people were tourists on a trip that unfortunately ended in tragedy. We know where the ship is, what its made from, even have a hi-resolution 3D computer model of it. Plus, the seabed around it has been mapped.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Said the man in charge of teleporters and hyperspace tech.

We actually have teleported a photon, so in principle it's do-able. And on warp drive, also theoretically possible - the maths looks good - but not practical just yet.

 

[captain nemo1701]

I’ve made a craft to go down inside of volcanoes. £250,000 but C.C’ers get a reasonable 75% discount. Hurry as places are limited.

Drop me a pm if interested.

Cheers.



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Is it called Virgil & made from unobtainium?:

 

[Mike_P]

We actually have teleported a photon, so in principle it's do-able. And on warp drive, also theoretically possible - the maths looks good - but not practical just yet.

A photon is a bit different to a person, and how to reassemble correctly the teleported molecules etc.... Woops the computer updated itself.

 

[Dogtrousers]

A photon is a bit different to a person, and how to reassemble correctly the teleported molecules etc.... Woops the computer updated itself.

Details details. I'm tired of your negative attitude. Bring me solutions, not problems.