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World's Deepest-Diving Unmanned Submarine Lost
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."
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.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
"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.
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