Giantthe ship, which went missing in the Titanic wreck area in the North Atlantic on Monday, is classified as a submersible, not a submarine, because it does not function as an autonomous vessel, relying instead on a pedestal. support to deploy and roll back .
According to the website of the cruise company that operates Titan, OceanGate Expeditions of Everett, Wash., The missing ship was a submersible capable of taking five people — a pilot and four crew members — to a depth of 4,000 meters, or more than 13,100 feet. — for “site surveying and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep-sea hardware and software testing.”
Made of titanium and carbon fiber, it weighs about 21,000 pounds and is listed as measuring 22 feet by 9.2 feet by 8.3 feet, with 96 hours of “life support” for five people.
The website says the Titan, one of three manned submersibles operated by OceanGate, is equipped with a platform similar to the dry dock of a ship used for launching and recovering ships.
The platform is used to launch and recover manned submersibles by flooding its flotation tanks with water for a controlled descent to a depth of 9.1 metres (the website says). 30 feet) to avoid any surface disturbances”.
The website continues: “Once submerged, the platform uses a patented motion-reducing buoyancy system to maintain contact with the surface but still provide a stable underwater platform that from That’s where our manned submersibles pick up and return after each dive.” “At the end of each dive, the submarine landed on a submerged platform and the entire system was brought to the surface in about two minutes by filling the ballast tanks with air.”
OceanGate calls Titan the world’s only manned submersible that can carry five people to a depth of 4,000 meters – or more than 13,100 feet – allowing it to reach nearly 50% of the world’s oceans. Unlike other submersibles, the Titan, the website says, uses a system that can analyze how pressure changes affect the vessel as it dives deeper, providing “early warning detection for aircraft.” enough time to initiate the landing and return safely to the surface.”
Titan begins deep sea adventure relating to the Titanic in 2021. According to technology news site GeekWirethe ship was “rebuilt” after OceanGate identified through testing that the ship could not withstand the pressure of diving at a depth of 4,000 meters.
