If they lost power, then they have no heat. So, is hypothermia one of the concerns? Seems like it would be cold AF.
That could be but they also could’ve lost power and be slowly suffocating in the dark two miles down.
The sub capsule is probably heavily insulated and being watertight would greatly slow down heat transfer but really don’t know. My guess is loss of breathable air is a bigger concern than hypothermia. Even if they have oxygen if fans aren’t working the build up of CO2 inside could still kill them. This was one of the situations in Apollo 13 where they we’re experiencing a dangerous build up of CO2 in the LEM.
There are certain latitudes, depths, and altitudes most people should not go beyond. Leave it to the scientists and the military.
Feel sorry for the couple. They finally get to meet a relative after nearly a century and it had to be an in-law.
I have mixed feelings about this. Ultimately if we are going to become a space faring species we need space to be commercialized. We need both private businesses and settlers to move out into space. There is tons of risk involved with it but any great mass movement of people comes with risk. I was thinking about this when I was in NZ and reading about the history of the Polynesian settlements of the Pacific. Using not much more than stone age technology the Polynesians were able to go from the Asian mainland to settle as far as Easter Island and Hawaii. New Zealand was one of their later settlements as they focusssed en masse in going East into the Pacific than going south. No one knows though how many of those Polynesians never made it any of those islands. How many of them setting off in outrigger canoes with a simple sail going over the horizon were swallowed up by the Pacific never to be heard from again? If humans didn't take risks exploring we probably wouldn't have made it out of the African Savanna. To me we should allow people to risk their lives in such ventures. The issue to me though is should we expend so many of public resources to rescue people willing to take that risk? Whether it's going to the bottom of the ocean or back country skiing in an avalanche area.
That depends how they found it. If they actually have a submersible down there they can probably tell the difference. If they are just seeing it on sonar that might be a different matter. That said I don't know for sure but wouldn't jump to any conclusions.
It was a remote operated submersible that found it. Press conference this afternoon at 3PM https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news...an-oceangate-expeditions-latest-debris-field/
