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Fascinating animation!
But some of us are spoiled ... If I jump into a boat here in Trondheim, Norway, and steer out towards the open sea, I will floating on almost 600 meters of water before I am out of the Trondheim Fjord. Norway's longest fjord, the Sognefjord, is also the deepest, slightly more than 1300 m.
So I am more surprised by how shallow many seas are. I sort of expect 3-400 m to be the "normal" 
Then a question to anyone who might know:
The animation shows "SAPEI (Deepest Submarine cable) β 1600 m". To me, it looks difficult to find a path for a trans-Atlantic cable (and no simpler for a trans-Pacific one!) that won't cross any depth exceeding 1600 m. So, are all those trans-ocean cables simply floating in free water at some depth? At which depths? How do they keep it stable? For how long stretches can a cable be free-floating like this? Unless the cable has a specific weight (i.e. density) very close to the surrounding water, there must be a tremendous drag in the cable on both sides! How is this handled? And what happens if a giant hungry shark takes a healthy bite of the cable, is it possible to pick up the pieces from both sides and tape them together again, or would it be just as simple to lay an all new cable? (Well, I do assume that the cable is reinforced to handle attacks from small sharks )
Feel free to provide a link to a web site that answers this kind of questions!
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They're probably running out of oxygen today.
Really sounds like one of the worst ways to go, waiting to suffocate in a tin can on the bottom of the ocean 
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It had more to do the fact he wanted to hire inexperienced people to man the vessel. That's the price of making a political statement rather than a genuine one. That dude still could've marketed to a younger crowd if he wanted to sell his soul to propaganda, while still having experienced people run the thing.
Jeremy Falcon
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BillWoodruff wrote: Frightening. One can only hope for a miracle ?
Also, not to be a downer. But, I come from a family of scuba divers. I'm not a nautical engineer, but I can testify that if something went wrong structurally to the vessel, they're dead. Zero chance of survival at that depth. There are a thousand reasons why, not the least of which is the pressure. That's over 363 atmospheres, something the human body cannot withstand.
To give context, an aquatic atmosphere is measured by the difference in air pressure at sea level when compared to space. Underwater however, that same delta only takes 33 feet. So in essence, that depth is over 363 times the amount of pressure you feel at sea level. If the vessel was poorly constructed and was damaged, they or a piece of crappy equipment would've been instantly crushed by the pressure. They would not have time to ascend. They would be crushed instantly.
Jeremy Falcon
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An open water diver is typically allowed to only go down 100-120 feet tops. And that's for experienced divers. Beginners should not ever start with that depth. The human body can withstand more pressure (not the depth of the Titanic though) and in fact you be nitrox certified to go down to 200 feet. That's for very experienced divers. If you don't know what you're doing and ascend too fast, your lungs will explode for instance - no biggy. You fly the next day, you have problems, etc.
Point being, at 200 feet you need to be trained to handle that amount of pressure. And that's only like 6 atmospheres. There's no way a human could survive at 363 atmospheres.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why is that frightening? It's just a device that converts hand or finger movements into digital signals, and a well developed reliable one too. Inside the sub it will be operating in an environment not unlike your home, in terms of temperature, humidity, pressure etc. And no dogs to trample on it.
It's what those digital signals control that is important.
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Screaming plus a few expletives usually help me get over it!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Phew! It looks like we all had the same problem.
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Spoiler?
There are 6 possibilities. I chose the other 5!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Guessing game at some point
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hi All,
Bit of an odd question there was a Hardware Embedded Page. As I have a WTF question with an Arduino (Mike Hankey, Marco Bertschi & Honey the Code Witch) might be able to help with, If I ask it the C/C++ Forums I don't hold out much hope, there was a Hardware Forum wasn't there at one time?
Glenn
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Yup that's the one. Why could I find it, pressing need to use facilities probably...
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