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World's Deepest-Diving Unmanned Submarine Lost

Posted by timothy on from the helios-and-then-this dept.

XenonOfArcticus writes "Kaiko, the world's deepest-diving submarine was lost in in late May off Japan, after it snapped its tether as a typhoon approached. Kaiko entered the record books in 1995 by diving 36,008 feet to the bottom of the Challenger Deep - the ocean's deepest point."

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  1. Thanks by flikx · · Score: 3, Funny

    On behalf of all naval engineers, I would like to thank you. You see, with all the design tradeoffs involved in engineering a submarine, we completely forgot to add any useful safety features or redundancy of any kind. Thank you very much for you excellent insight, we will incorporate these obvious, yet overlooked features into the next generaion of unmanned submersibles.

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    1. Re:Thanks by zangdesign · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, remember to put some screen doors in the submarine so it's easy to tell if you're underwater or not. And so you can step outside for a whizz and a smoke.

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  2. Re:Recent events by Muhammar · · Score: 3, Funny

    "With the loss of the Challenger, the crash of the Helios, and now this, it makes me wonder what next."

    Tragic demise of Bill Gates, I fear.

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    I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
  3. It's not lost... by breon.halling · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... it's hanging out with James Cameron. ;)

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  4. Re:Nitpick by whm · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know this is a tedious point, but there are four oceans, and not everyone knows where Challenger Deep is.

    This may even be more tedious ... but how can you write a comment like that, and still not tell us proles where the hell it's at? :)