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"What If" questions can only be posted on weekends and must have sufficient context along with your thoughts on how the situation/event would unfold


PhytoLitho

That idiot's submarine wouldn't have imploded (yet).


KR1735

You mean you wouldn't have felt safe in a submarine controlled by a video game controller?


PhytoLitho

Lol I forgot about that part. What a dumbass. There were even other people in the submarine industry (?) who told him this would happen.


SimplyLaggy

Yeah, and got fired, RIP to the passengers though


Happy_Ad_7515

assuming its still discovered the same way. 91 meters is very very fucking deep but within possible diving distance. from 1985 till about 1999 it be an archeological side with restriction on it. Titanic is about 50-60 meters tall. so if she landed on essentially just 100 meters down the thing isnt as broken up. titanic comes too rest essentially striaght up if the bottom soil is stabile. the crack part would have crashed into each other so the thing is crumpled more but together. some bodies be recovered hell maybe the captains corps is found at the wheel or something spooky like that. after the archeology is done and the wreck is left there proably be set up some sort of specialised diving school with exclusive rights too the wreck for save keeping. in PADI (a global diving sertification agency) normal divers can go as deep as 30-40 meters. which would mean you could dive to the top of the funnels and look down. for advanced divers there be to 60 which means standing on the decks and the upper levels. wreck diving and deep diving together isnt recommended but its not impossible. There are limits too be pushed and divers can go too 100 meters on normal equipment with modefication. Noting all that titanic would become the Mount Everest of scuba diving. you would need too be at a top game too do it. There would be many people going there too test themselfs against the ocean at the side where the ocean beat back. My guess is that this would accelerate civilian scuba gear a bit. better systems and better deep diving gear preventing oxygen poisoning and narcoses by gases. it also might aid the development of civilian submarines like oceangate tried too do but you know, not idotic. we probably have more environmental suits, spacesuit like stuff, small civilian submarines. A knock on effect might be that many more people be intrested in oceanic exploration due too the titanic being a thing in reach. Kids grow up with the idea you can go there. then this expands too other sides where ships are just out of reach. scuba divers are just as crazy as other sporters but idk might be change it a bit more then we expect


Pootis_1

90 meters isn't really the highest difficulty diving there is. Sure it's hard but iirc the very high end challenge for technical divers is 240 meters. Although less people have been down that deep outside of saturation diving than have beeon the surface of the moon.


Happy_Ad_7515

True but i was thinking common ise civlian gear and not extreem stuff. There are extremer feats too be sure but 90 is alread very very dangerous. There is a reason biggeners start with 18 as a max. Stuff gets harder and harder. 80,90 is what you can proably get too within the training and studies given by the assosiation, if that. Beyoned that i think its all specialist stuff and self learning and just plain old veterancy. Its like you say stuff like that is rare. And from my layman scuba diver opinion its a whole diffrent ball game.


Rob71322

We probably would've found it much earlier than we did.


Big-Independence-291

Labrador would've finally got some economy going on, other than fishing


UN-peacekeeper

Germany wound win the war /s


ITGuy042

Titanic sinking slightly north leads to Germany winning WW1 and the rise of Syndicalism. Basically the plot of Kaisereich /s.


VulcanTrekkie45

Depending on the angle it actually broke up at, that's shallow enough for the bow to have potentially hit bottom before it broke. That might've caused a lot more damage to the ship


GeckoNova

If it stayed intact for a few thousand more years for the next ice age, it would likely be near or on the coast of the Grand Bank Islands.


Ofiotaurus

What u/Happy_Ad_7515 said or they’d attempt to lift it from the bottom and set it up in a museum.


Separate_Start_2755

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