I wouldn't be surprised if that transcript is accurate. I believe there's another obvious fake out there that has audio of screaming, which is probably the sensationalistic route someone would go to fake a transcript. Nothing about the dry, back-and-forth typing transcript seems fake. The timestamp being off by one time zone is meaningless; maybe they're all just set to East coast time.
Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search
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Snopes has moved it to false from unconfirmed and provides plenty of information to justify the move.
HalcyonDaze
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For the curious: Was the Titan Sub's Text Message 'Transcript' or 'Log' Released?
Efficiency and brevity were a priority. There was absolutely no chitchat (such as "Enjoy the dive, gentlemen"). Often, the actual exchanges even omitted the verb, newspaper headline-style ("Bottom time up"), to save time and typing.
If everything were indeed fine, the pilot would simply text "AN" (the code for "All systems nominal"). Nobody would bother to type out "Systems check complete, all in order. All lights are green." Or this absurd example: "All systems are functioning normally. We're in good shape. Continuing our descent as planned." That's complete baloney.
Imagine that you're texting a friend. Would you ever actually type out "Affirmative"?! Not unless you were a hoaxer trying to sound rockety. No, you'd just type "OK."
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Pogue said of these three messages, "As I've reported, Titan had seven different ways to return to the surface: hydraulically released construction pipes, a set of rolling construction pipes (released by rocking the sub), sandbags (mechanically released), an air bladder, the thrusters, the timed self-releasing sandbags (connected to the sub with seawater-dissolving links), and, FINALLY, the frame (legs) of the submersible."
"The Titan's pilot would not just say 'Going to release the ballast now'; he would specify which kind," Pogue added. "And above all, he would never not BEGIN with the expensive, custom-built frame! He would BEGIN with the pipes, sandbags, thrusters, or air bladder."
That’s true about using abbreviations. When providing a SITREP during a mission we had to say who, what, where and when. So for example if we were on our way back to the base we would say hey you this is me grid 12345678, RTB with 4 Vic’s and. 20 pax, RTB time now. Translation : hey this me, we are at grid 12345678, we are returning to the base right now with 4 vehicles and 20 men.
Simulation Reveals Exactly How Titan Submersible Imploded
For the victims, no time to panic and a painless death.
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That’s quite disturbing to read once you process the technical facts …Simulation Reveals Exactly How Titan Submersible Imploded
For the victims, no time to panic and a painless death.
Dan
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Loring Chien, former principal engineer at Fortune 1000 company (2002-2016) answer this question in Quora Quest:
“Were the corpses of Titan Submarine found?”
His answer:
“It is very likely that the bodies were severely mangled by the implosion of the hull. The contents of the hull would have been crushed to about 1/400th the volume by the 6000 PSI of pressure. The inrushing water would be like a huge piston causing both enormous pressure rise and probable very high flash temperatures as the existing air was compressed in an instant.
They have said they recovered some human remains. What exactly they were and how small and what condition was thankfully not described.”
“Were the corpses of Titan Submarine found?”
His answer:
“It is very likely that the bodies were severely mangled by the implosion of the hull. The contents of the hull would have been crushed to about 1/400th the volume by the 6000 PSI of pressure. The inrushing water would be like a huge piston causing both enormous pressure rise and probable very high flash temperatures as the existing air was compressed in an instant.
They have said they recovered some human remains. What exactly they were and how small and what condition was thankfully not described.”
Dan
Contributor
It would be an interesting test by putting a dead animal skull (road-killed squirrel?) in a carbon fiber cylinder inside a pressure chamber full of water, pressure up the chamber into 6000 PSIg and let the carbon-fiber cylinder imploded and examining the remains. I bet they are till intact.
