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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
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.
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I think Cameron was guessing their depth based on the time, as he knows how long it takes to get down. The bigger question is the sound which he and others in the aquatic research community apparently knew about basically right away. Not sure why that was kept under wraps.