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In the north atlantic, it is, you know, we only have a three month weather window, which pretty much goes from, you know, the end ofjune to september, where the seas are calm enough to actually be out there and able to dive, which right now it s really early in the season so i m not sure, you know, why 0ceangate went out this soon. but, you know, deploying subs in the water and spending all day, you know, on the wreck and coming back here, you know, 6,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, you re 12,850 feet down, and so every precaution has to be taken at all times. this entire week hasjust felt like a prolonged, nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff. and the coastguard is out with aeroplanes. i knew that sub was sitting exactly ....
You know, we only have a three month weather window, which pretty much goes from, you know, the end ofjune to september, where the seas are calm enough to actually be out there and able to dive, which right now it s really early in the season so i m not sure, you know, why oceangate went out this soon. but, you know, deploying subs in the water and spending all day, you know, on the wreck and coming back here, you know, 6,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, you re 12,850 feet down, and so every precaution has to be taken at all times. this entire week hasjust felt like a prolonged, nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff. and the coastguard is out with aeroplanes. i knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth ....
Technological advances in terms of a search and recovery capability. is that fair? i know that there has been. and the irony, one of the men onboard pisces 3, roger chapman was a mariner with the royal navy before he went into the commercial field and was on pisces. he developed one of the submarines that are used today in terms of one submarine to the other. the problem is only operates at a depth of 1,000 or 1,500 feet. however, vehicles can go down much, much deeper. that s what will be required. ironically, i know it s a thin sliver of hope and success of a rescue could be successful, but the irony we would be using the same methods. a remote-controlled vehicles getting down and attaching something on to the submarine and then hauling them to the surface. wow. you wrote about what that crew ....
In constant communication with the pisces 3, with the man roger chapman, tragically, the situation we are not in today. they also the same situation that the men on the surface today have, which is they didn t know where the pisces was initially. you know, the boys back in 1973, the way that they kept track of these small submarines was they had a buoy on the surface attached to the submarine using a very, very long stretch of rope. you think of the scene in jaws where the barrels on the surface, that s how they tracked it. unfortunately, the pisces, when it got to the surface, disconnected that buoy and then sank. so they had no idea where it was initially. i think when people compare the depth of where the pisces was versus where this submersible is now, several differences, including communication. you think this is not going to end the way it ended in 1973. but there have been major ....
well, what s fascinating is that the rescuers are finding themselves in the same situation today as the men back in sorry, 50 years ago in 1973. the titan is teacher than any other submarine that has rescued, pisces 3 in the same position, 1,700 feet down, the titan about 12,000 feet down if it s by the titanic. ironically, the system that could potentially get it to the surface is similar to the rescue in 1973. 1973 there was a massive rescue operation involving americans flying from san diego carrying a remote operated vehicle. the canadians bringing over small pisces-type submarine and the brits also bringing a small pisces-type machine. effectively, what happened was they pooled their resources and the difference then was that they were able to they were ....