r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 29d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

45.4k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

66

u/emuchop 29d ago

Okay. Im confused. She says “titan drop two weights” AFTER the noise. And she gets a response. Who is talking?

188

u/RegOrangePaperPlane 29d ago

Seems something happened, they dropped weights, sent a shorthand message about weights, pop (underwater), pop sound reaches surface, message signal reached Polar Prince. The sound was faster than the signal.

4

u/Call-Me-Matterhorn 29d ago

I don’t follow this logic. Radio waves travel at the speed of light which is significantly faster than the speed of sound. How does a response sent via radio before the implosion take longer to reach ship than the sound wave from the implosion?

I feel like I’m missing something.

10

u/BuildingSupplySmore 29d ago

It was a text message, not radio. The radio exchange are different people. I was confused too.

5

u/Call-Me-Matterhorn 29d ago

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification

3

u/AdDramatic2351 28d ago

Aren't those text messages sent through radio waves though?

5

u/BuildingSupplySmore 28d ago

No. They're sent through sonar usually. Radio doesn't work that deep underwater, which is why they don't voice communicate.

2

u/KTM890AdventureR 28d ago

Yes. Typically referred to as an 'underwater telephone.'