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Wouldnt such a design prevent loss of contact?

TylerDurden
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    Your leash would not make any difference for a catastrophic failure. – Solar Mike Jun 22 '23 at 19:56
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    The weight of the umbilical. It operates in international waters to avoid safety features. – StainlessSteelRat Jun 22 '23 at 20:26
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    It wouldn't prevent loss of contact only minimize the possibility; a fault could develop with the cable. – Fred Jun 23 '23 at 02:49
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    You're probably underestimating just how long a cable it would have to be. The Titanic wreck is 12,500 ft or over 2 miles deep. The Titan sub wasn't lost because it couldn't contact the surface; it was lost because its owners were careless fools who disregarded the warnings of engineers and deployed it to a depth far beyond what it was built for. – RC_23 Nov 20 '23 at 01:18
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    One could reasonably ask "why didn't they" questions about assorted well-engineered constructions. Asking this about badly-engineered ones? In case of good ideas you can simply assume "because they were morons" – SF. Nov 20 '23 at 11:46
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    Because it would cost more. The CEO would rule it out based on that alone, before the fact that it would be heavy, nor practical, nor effective, nor feasible. – DKNguyen Nov 20 '23 at 22:33

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Titanic is 12,000 feet underwater. So a 12,000 foot umbilical cable, Using say.... a 2 inch thick galvanized steel wire rope would weigh 7.8 pounds per foot, would weigh 47 tons.

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yes, but it greatly increases the chances that the umbilical cable will get foul-snagged on a piece of the wreckage and become stuck.

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