As crews raced to locate a submersible vessel that vanished Sunday during a descent to the wreckage of the Titanic, explorers who have completed the journey…
Lynch said that when he made the descent aboard the Russian-owned Mir submersibles, the practice was always to send two vessels down at once. That way, one could help if the other ran into trouble.
Lynch said that on his voyage he asked what would happen if someone panicked due to claustrophobia and was told, very seriously, “the Russians keep a really big wrench in the submersible …. If somebody suddenly goes nuts, what do you do? All you can do is just knock them out.”Article content What helped save him was having a second submersible nearby that came in to assess the situation. “The two sub pilots talked back and forth. And the second pilot helped our pilot get free of the tangle of wire — moving backwards, moving forwards …. We had this kind of self-rescue capability which made the difference, really made the difference,” he said.
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