The Ships and Boats Thread

[VladimirIlyich]

10 hours ago, polymerpunkah said:

Who is the learner driver and who is the instructor?

[clockspeed]

15 hours ago, Lee909 said:

Just seen this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65953872.amp

 

Sounds like a potential disaster 

 

 

What I don't get even at the depths discussed is they don't know where it is at . Everything nowadays has transponders , if switched on,  surely even at 2.5 miles down they know its location . Now getting it back another thing but is it that basic they don't have the devices on board ???

[Daisy]

7 minutes ago, clockspeed said:

What I don't get even at the depths discussed is they don't know where it is at . Everything nowadays has transponders , if switched on,  surely even at 2.5 miles down they know its location . Now getting it back another thing but is it that basic they don't have the devices on board ???

 

Its a bit odd they dont seemingly have a disaster plan in a place at all given how dangerous it is. 

 

The people on board are fucked as it would take very specialist craft to get it back which is seemingly not available, even if they do find it. 

[Fugitive]

6 minutes ago, Daisy said:

 

Its a bit odd they dont seemingly have a disaster plan in a place at all given how dangerous it is. 

 

The people on board are fucked as it would take very specialist craft to get it back which is seemingly not available, even if they do find it. 

Apparently, the sub has one button and controlled with a PlayStation controller. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=649148c41babaa614a472af1%26Watch%3A Inside Titan sub before it went missing%262023-06-20T06%3A41%3A15.077Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:fca6345f-ea73-4361-9eca-a0c13e0a2329&pinned_post_asset_id=649148c41babaa614a472af1&pinned_post_type=share

 

[Daisy]

8 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

Apparently, the sub has one button and controlled with a PlayStation controller. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=649148c41babaa614a472af1%26Watch%3A Inside Titan sub before it went missing%262023-06-20T06%3A41%3A15.077Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:fca6345f-ea73-4361-9eca-a0c13e0a2329&pinned_post_asset_id=649148c41babaa614a472af1&pinned_post_type=share

 

Fucking hell

 

Who the fuck would get in that 

[manwiththestick]

20 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

Apparently, the sub has one button and controlled with a PlayStation controller. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=649148c41babaa614a472af1%26Watch%3A Inside Titan sub before it went missing%262023-06-20T06%3A41%3A15.077Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:fca6345f-ea73-4361-9eca-a0c13e0a2329&pinned_post_asset_id=649148c41babaa614a472af1&pinned_post_type=share

 

Maybe they just need to blow on the buttons or move the batteries around.

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, Fugitive said:

Apparently, the sub has one button and controlled with a PlayStation controller. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=649148c41babaa614a472af1%26Watch%3A Inside Titan sub before it went missing%262023-06-20T06%3A41%3A15.077Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:fca6345f-ea73-4361-9eca-a0c13e0a2329&pinned_post_asset_id=649148c41babaa614a472af1&pinned_post_type=share

 

So, forward to go forward, back to go back, left to go left and right to go right.

Pity there's no up button.

[Anubis]

Using a mass marker game controller to control a deep sea submersible. What could possibly go wrong. Have they tried reconnecting Bluetooth.

[TheHowieLama]

What is there another 30 hours of oxygen left?

[polymerpunkah]

Unless one of them has killed the rest to extend his/her time out to, what, 480 hours?

 

 

[Lee909]

Reading that's its a experimental submersible so has no certificate of safety from any body. Also if they are on the surface they can't open the hatch from inside. So the poor cunts might actually be on the surface with easy access to oxygen they can't get to. 

 

As soon as I read a bit of tbe company press shit last night it read that it's cheaper than other alternative submersible. 

[TheHowieLama]

46 minutes ago, polymerpunkah said:

Unless one of them has killed the rest to extend his/her time out to, what, 480 hours?

 

 

 

A brothers gotta eat too.

[TheHowieLama]

13 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 As soon as I read a bit of tbe company press shit last night it read that it's cheaper than other alternative submersible. 

 

A bit here:

 

 

[Kevin D]

 

 

[Section_31]

Didn't see this thread, mods please delete the other.

 

The fuck is it with these billionaires and their exploding rockets and other shite gear?

[TD_LFC]

It's the Orcas, this is the first real blow in the conflict.

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

It's the Orcas, this is the first real blow in the conflict.

 

It's not the first - they have been fucking around for fun for a few years now, latest from last week:

 

Orcas that attacked a sailboat in the Strait of Gibraltar ripped its two rudders off in less than 15 minutes then played with the debris, dramatic footage of the encounter shows.

 

One of the orcas also came back for more as the crew headed inshore, chasing the boat all the way to the marina in Sotogrande, Spain, where it tore off what was left of the rudders.

 

"They went directly for the rudders," Dan Kriz, a skipper who was aboard the catamaran and delivering it for the Florida-based company Catamaran Guru, told Live Science in an email. "The whole thing took about 10 to 15 minutes."

 

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

It's not the first - they have been fucking around for fun for a few years now, latest from last week:

 

Orcas that attacked a sailboat in the Strait of Gibraltar ripped its two rudders off in less than 15 minutes then played with the debris, dramatic footage of the encounter shows.

 

One of the orcas also came back for more as the crew headed inshore, chasing the boat all the way to the marina in Sotogrande, Spain, where it tore off what was left of the rudders.

 

"They went directly for the rudders," Dan Kriz, a skipper who was aboard the catamaran and delivering it for the Florida-based company Catamaran Guru, told Live Science in an email. "The whole thing took about 10 to 15 minutes."

 

 

 

30 of them rocked up to Monterey Bay last week in a show of aggression as well.

 

They're seeking revenge for Tilikum

 

 

[Juniper]

I call alien shenanigans 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Section_31]

Whales are thick as fuck. You've got no legs, dickhead.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/147836.stm

[Lee909]

2 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

It's the Orcas, this is the first real blow in the conflict.

 

As the founding site member of team Orca on the forum I welcome our new aquatic overlords

[Anubis]

 

 

[A Red]

The Tall Ships are in Falmouth this week so we bought tickets and went to have a look round. Fucking nightmare, queued an hour and a half for our 2.00pm slot, when we finally got in we spent 10 minutes walking round the deck area as everywhere else is out of bounds. Wish we hadn't bothered.

 

They set sail on Friday so we've picked a spot near the Helford to watch them. Hopefully will be quite a spectacle.