How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
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Published 2023-10-20
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All Comments (21)
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I am shocked and appalled that you didn't send your writer Amy to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to confirm the conditions there. What is journalism even coming to these days?!
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Step 1: don't build your sub from expired carbon fiber
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Imagine testing a submarine before expedition lol
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Fun fact: the limiting factor is owned by a company called inkfish. The owner of inkfish happens to be Gabe Newell, who beyond owning valve and steam needed to own the best submarine in the world I guess.
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@ 5:32 - CORRECTION - "if you want to get to the bottom of the ocean you need a multi-million dollar submersible" - technically, this is not true at all. Anyone could easily reach the bottom of the ocean with just some basic weights. However, the experience would be somewhat stressful.
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I am genuinely impressed that you contained yourselves not to make any Titan jokes.
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[insert funny submarine joke here]
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Big kudos to you for not mentioning OceanGate and the Titan. I know that took restraint XD
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Subways subs don't survive in water at all. They get extremely soggy.
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Let's do a collab between Sam from hai, sam from wendover and sam from jet leg the game They all have similar voices too
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In case anyone was wondering; the weights that get dropped are metal (usually steel), meaning they're technically environmentally friendly to just be left there. Plus someone from the Aquarius Reef Base can come pick them up at some point in the far future 😂.
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If only the Titan had been so conscientiously designed and bb built as the Limiting Factor, a truly amazing DSV.
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If you look closely at that list of people who rode the Limiting Factor to Challenger Deep, you'll see Hamish Harding. That means he 'd already ridden this state-of-the-art sub to the bottom of the ocean and knew what a legit sub looked like before he looked at the OceanGate contraption and somehow decided to trust his life in it, despite the obvious differences between the two vehicles.
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It's interesting how many things the Limiting Factor has that Oceangate did not. Like research. And a pressure tested hull.
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Surprised he didn’t send HAI outside correspondent Amy to investigate
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Can confirm, Titanium is a better material to build your sub out of than say, carbon fiber.
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My favourite fact about the first expedition is that Jacques Picard and Don Walsh dropped a weight with the flags of France and the United States attached to a small flagpole. Because the US has a law that the US flag cannot fly beneath another flag, the US flag was on top of the French one. Once they'd surfaced, Picard pointed out that that made the lowest object in the ocean a French flag, thus beating out the US by a few centimetres.
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Singing: "We all survive 36,201 feet below in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine."
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He did not tell about victor vescovo. That guy has so many records. Dived in all deepest points of 5 oceans. Climbed highest points on all continents. Discovered deepest shipwreck. He is a freaking legend.
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James Cameron thought Titanic’s depth was too shallow clearly
