re: #11 darthstar

I didn’t think this could get any dumber, but it has.

Several engineers told the New York Times that cost-cutting measures included renting a mothership called the Polar Prince that was too small to carry the Titan sub on deck, meaning it had to drag the submersible through the ocean for three days from Newfoundland to the crash site.

The hack meant the sub was “tossed around pretty roughly,” editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, Arnie Weissmann, said about his May expedition to the site. His planned dive in the Titan sub that month was canceled due to “wind, swells, and fog.”

The cost-saving measure is in comparison to the method used by Alvin, the first craft to carry humans to the Titanic site, in 1986. The vessel travels to the dive site on a dedicated mothership, which is outfitted with custom winches, hangars, and a machine shop. A large crane places the submersible into the ocean from the ship.

msn.com