Coast Guard Video: Titan Sub Salvaged Off Ocean Floor

continuing on on our investigation of the Ocean Gate Titan implosion it appears that the US Coast Guard has served us up with a treasure Trove of new videos today that this in fact these just came out this evening and we have some new pictures and charts to show you that that the Coast Guard has given us in the past day or so so let's take a look at what we have so this is the photo that the Coast Guard released yesterday that shows the aftermath of the incident when the front Dome fell off of the

Titan if you can believe that they only attached four bolts out of the 18 and Stockton Rush had concurred that you know what maybe all we need to put on is four and because it's going down so deep the pressure of the water will just hold the Dome into place so when they brought it back up the crane operator supposedly was a little rough with it and dropped it a little high off the deck and the entire Lars with the Titan on it Came Crashing Down and the Dome popped right off just like you see

there it slid down and I believe they were able to rescue it okay otherwise if that thing had fallen into the drink do you realize how expensive that would have been for them to go and try to recover that now and Salvage that from the bottom of the ocean floor right next to the Titanic so if you remember I showed you Fred Hagen's testimony about this from the Coast Guard hearing couple of days ago and it got to a point where it was seaing you know there's the the the flat plane of the deck and

then there's the angled plane of the ramp which is fairly steep probably a little too steep so it was teetering back and forth and then the crane operator uh let it go a little bit too abruptly so I would and it slam down on the deck with quite a bit of force a decision had been made to only install four of the 18 bolts and and the 3500 lb titanium Dome the force of the platform hitting the deck of the just basically sheared off several bolts and they shot off like bullets and and the as

you know the titanium Dome fell off and then the Coast Guard also released this chart here that preious research gave to them so this is where they mapped out everything of where the debris field landed in relation to the bow of the Titanic now you can see that the debris field is in a large widespread area about a 200 meter Wide Circle about 300 M off to the side of the Titanic bow then if you look at this closeup look at the lower right of the chart see the red letters that says last known position

of Titan so that's where Titan was in the vertical water colum descending down to the bottom of the ocean bed and you can see how far away all of the debris blew and you can see where they found the endcaps and the capsule and everything sort of onto the lower center part of the image there but that's pretty amazing to see all of that mapped out and if you remember last year um they had somewhat of a kind of an estimated debris field drawing that I showed you as well right here so here is the

first of the couple of videos that the Coast Guard released earlier this evening so what we're looking at here is the forward Dome here this is the titanium you know the Hem hemispheric guess you could call it it's like a half dome and then look what showed up here a little friend down in the deep that looks like a Gren I think we call that a Grenadier don't we it's one of the most common fish in the sea but yeah they go down this deep believe it or not those fish so anyway what they're doing

this robot it's it's very incredible very tedious what they have to do but you can see that they're using both of these robot arms to tie a knot with this cable here and then they're going to pull this Dome up but it's pretty amazing the articulation and what they had to do because you can see those clamps in the background that they put directly on to the titanium Dome there you can see it and then they sort of drive it in place with that te driver there that's built onto it and now they're just trying

to manipulate these two cords here to get them all tightened up and then they're going to pull this Dome up and off of the ocean floor so what they're essentially showing us is pelagus research who came here with this odia 6K Rover this uh man this remotely operated vehicle here they [Music] are they are bringing up all of the debris so they're showing us how they got all of this Ocean Gate Titan submarine debris off the ocean floor now as I keep getting different views sort of into the the titanium hemisphere there you can see

inside there there's some scuffs and scratches on there now I don't know if that's from the implosion or if that was from other things going on or maybe just from human use I don't know but I'm trying to get a gauge for how disruptive that implosion was to the different parts of the Titan submarine that survived here so it's just amazing watching this robot arm go and then now coming up here is a longer version that they've given us this one started a few minutes earlier this camera is a separate camera that's mounted higher up

on the Odus 6 so now you can look down inside the Dome and there you can see the overhead view of that clamp those C clamps it looks like that they attached onto the Dome so that they can attach the cables to them and then pull this titanium Dome up off of the ocean bed and keep in mind it's sitting here right now about 350 M off of the down off of the bow of the Titanic shipwreck so it's it's just kind of sad to think that you know they they came this close to making

it you know so from here I'm going to speed this up a bit because they had several minutes where it didn't seem like a whole lot was going on and then we're going to see it getting towed up so here it is this section I've sped it up 12x and we're just kind of watching in high speed the robotic arms are trying to manipulate the cords there and they're they're going to hook them onto that yellow hook that you see right there on top of the black grate so it's amazing the articulation um and the

patience it must take for the people that are controlling this thing now I don't know how much of a delay there is cu remember they're 2 and a half miles away and it's very hard to get any kind of signals down to this thing unless they sent it down with its own tether of cables in which case then it would be pretty instantaneous but look at this thing it just like picks up the hook moves it a little bit over and this thing knows exactly what to do now watch as this left arm picks up

the hook and brings it up to the cable and they're going to insert it right in there get it in through that IH hook too bad they didn't turn the f-stop down on their camera a little bit more we would have had a little more clearer view it's kind of over exposed there it is they've latched it onto the cable now that must take a lot of practice to be able to do this effectively it's kind of like the surgeons that use these little robots to do the knee surgeries then okay now I've sped it

up 12x again because it's just kind of sitting here not doing a whole lot it's just waiting there and they're getting ready to haul it up now so they're putting the arms back getting them retracted and now they're starting to begin the ascent up now watch the depth see the depth that's written up there in the upper left so they're starting out at 3777 M that's how deep it is it's approximately they call it 3,800 M down to the Titanic and I've even seen some ratings that say 3840 so it probably depends on what area

you're at as to what your depth is going to be there but 3777 so we're already Rising now this thing's already 3 M off the ground and it's starting to pull tension on the cable there and it is going to pull that Dome up off of the bed and you can still see some of the black chunks from the carbon fiber Hall after the implosion that are all over the place and frankly I'm surprised we have chunks that are even that big I would have expected the chunks to be a lot smaller now you're going

to see The View obstructed somewhat because of all of the the sand that's getting blown around but there's the Dome at the top of the screen and so we are floating now we are 8 m up off of the floor and so it is now pulling it up towards the surface of the ocean at this point in time so now we are 10 MERS up yeah probably still about 7 or eight meters up at this point I think we started out at 3777 so right now we're at 3770 and you can see how fast they're

going up cuz that was one of my big question is well was how fast were they able to get this thing to go go up I know they bragged about they dropped this odia 6K and it was going I think 35 m/ second down because they wanted to get down as fast as they could and they were really testing the limits of this particular ROV but now coming back up you can you can see it's going up a lot slower so it's a much more controlled Ascent you really can't see much of the Dome here

right now I'm going to fast forward to some of the scenes where we might be able to see it dancing around but there's a lot of sand that's clouding The View right now okay so now we've sped it up 15x we're going now so you can see how the time is ticking on the lower left and you can see how quickly the depth is going up now so we've already gone up about 70 yards from the we've already ascended about 80 yards or so from the ocean floor by now in approximately 6 minutes time because

remember it left at at 2122 on the dot and here we are at 2129 or 2130 at this moment and so if you look in the middle of that black grading there you can see the shadow of the chords that are kind of dancing around as the titanium Dome is hanging directly below it and every once in a while it comes into view and we get a glimpse of it and it must have been filled with a lot of SC that's the only thing I can think of the only reason why we would be seeing

all of this sand blowing everywhere because we shouldn't be seeing any I wouldn't think uh coming off of the odia 6K CU it should have been all blown off at least by now because here we are we're probably 130 M off of the ocean floor at this time so it's been traveling probably uh yeah five or six minutes now and as it heads up to the surface this is pretty much um The View that we're going to see hopefully the Coast Guard will release more videos showing them I want to see how they recovered the

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