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Originally Posted by Weirdness
Yeah I'm not buying it. Nothing was reported when the sub first went missing, the loss of communications was brushed off as something that "sometimes happened" on these dives and not super out of the ordinary. If OceanGate really had this crucial information and kept it from the search & rescue crews while they were out on their wild goose chase... yikes
This guy also points out that the depths the sub is reporting don't line up with the expected depth at that time. Neither the sub nor the surface vessel seem concerned that they're sinking faster than they are supposed to. This sub made 13 successful dives before this one, and so I imagine this would be seen as an unusual dive speed. You would think that some corrective action or an abort would be attempted, even before the RTM system started alarming, but maybe I'm giving the crew a bit too much credit here.
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I'm kind of torn. In the alleged transcript, they reported power issues just before losing communication. It would make sense that searchers would hold out hope that maybe they were still alive for a few days until they had proof otherwise.
The transcript also seems to show that the crew knew that they were diving faster than normal. It is weird that they wouldn't abort the dive, but Rush has shown that he is reckless, so maybe not that weird.
It is kind of weird that James Cameron speculated that they were at about 3500 m down, dropped their ballasts, and were trying to ascend. Cameron would have known how deep they would be expected to be, so why did he say 3500 m when he was speculating? (I don't recall the interview with James Cameron, just going by what was said in the video). The implication being that people from the dive community were allowed to review the transcript while the search was going on, and that someone from that community leaked it.