Years ago there was a diving bell ride at the steel pier in Atlantic City NJ. My family and I went in it. I guess it was back in the early 60's. No freaking way would I go in that thing now. Of course it's long gone now.
We stopped there on the way to Lancaster PA.
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There is a WW2 era sub you can tour at Charleston, SC. After a very quick walk through it, I concluded there was no way in hell I’d ever get in one and allow someone to close the hatch, let alone crank it. In fact, I have no further plans to ever walk through another one.
NOt a place to be if you have claustrophobia . I cannot believe how small those subs are compared to modern day Nuclear subs. I have seen 2 of them surface off the coast of FL when out fishing and it was impressive.
I’m a former USN Submariner too. The diesel boats were small compared to nuclear boats but even the modern boats are small after a few months submerged.
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Imagine sitting on the bottom of the harbor at Vladivostok in one of those old diesel boats during the Cold War, collecting intelligence. My dad did this during the mid- to late-50s.
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Awful lot of pressure at that depth. Lots of things can go wrong. When I was active duty I was big time into scuba diving and got mixed gas qual'd. Did a dive once a little over 200 ft down. Even with the mandatory decompression stops and nitrogen bleed off time I felt like crap for a few days. That wreck sits at 12000+ feet. One mistake or one weak spot and it is all over.
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Say 6 people are in the sub, you are stranded at the bottom but life support is functional. rescue will take 2 days but you only have enough oxygen for 1 day with all 6 people alive... Do you volunteer to die, or do you draw straws, or do you hope they can get you out before everyone suffocates? How much does hypothermia decrease the need for oxygen? Could you lower the temperature to the point everyone passes out but stays alive to extend the likelihood of survival of everyone?
There is a WW2 era sub you can tour at Charleston, SC. After a very quick walk through it, I concluded there was no way in hell I’d ever get in one and allow someone to close the hatch, let alone crank it. In fact, I have no further plans to ever walk through another one.
USS Drum is on display in Mobile, WW2 sub. I toured that thing and it really gave me the creeps. I am 6-3. I probably would have been too big for sub duty, thank God.
Back in the mid 60’s I worked for a guy that was on a sub during WWII. He told some pretty scary stories about it. One though was they were in a convoy during a typhoon. The next morning there was a destroyer MIA. It had sunk in the waves that night.
Say 6 people are in the sub, you are stranded at the bottom but life support is functional. rescue will take 2 days but you only have enough oxygen for 1 day with all 6 people alive... Do you volunteer to die, or do you draw straws, or do you hope they can get you out before everyone suffocates? How much does hypothermia decrease the need for oxygen? Could you lower the temperature to the point everyone passes out but stays alive to extend the likelihood of survival of everyone?
A grim scenario. It could have happened fast, a bolt blew out and everybody was dead in 2 seconds. Or it could be happening right now, exactly as you describe.
There's been a 2-year project of completely 3-D mapping of the ship and entire debris field of the Titanic in preparation of a new documentary coming out soon. Don't know if this sub was part of that project or not. I heard that there was a British Billionaire onboard the missing sub.
I think if it did not automatically surface within an hour or so, it never will.
If you buy a $250K seat on a sub-orbital rocket, at least you have a 100% guarantee that it will come back down. A sub has no such percentage of coming back up.
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