Can you imagine being so rich that you can drop 250k on a trip? It’s a very specialty thing, but holy shit, I don’t even want to drop 5k on a trip and then there’s people out there casually dropping that kind of cash on an “experience”.
Glad to hear they have 4 days of oxygen onboard the sub, so hopefully they can be rescued with no loss of life. Is it weird to anyone else that they don’t know when they lost contact? They don’t have some kind of communication buoy the sub can use to keep in contact with it’s mothership?
According to
Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.
they do know when they lost contact, but obviously seem to be unable to reestablish it. Now assuming Musk’s starlink satellites aren’t at fault (which they could tell if that was the case), something must have gone wrong with the submersible’s hardware and that’s not good.
Starlink doesn’t work for submarines. The radio frequency they use can’t penetrate water. The support ship does use it to communicate with the outside world, but the communications link between the ship and the sub has to use entirely different technology.
