The five crew members of the Titan submarine visiting the Titanic They were declared dead after several days of searching. The submersible imploded, ending everyone’s life. And many point to Starlink, Elon Musk’s company, guilty to a certain degree.
Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate, the tour company; Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood and his son suleman They died in the implosion, the cause of which is still unknown.
Last weekend they set out to search for the remains of the Titanic, but the mother ship of the Titan (Titan in Spanish) subsequently lost communication with the submersible. This is where Stalink comes in… Does Elon Musk’s company have responsibility?
OceanGate does use Elon Musk’s Internet, but…
The basis of everything is that OceanGate does work with Starlink technology. In fact, on June 14, before the expedition, he posted on Twitter that he trusted “Starlink to provide the communications we need during the Titanic Expedition 2023″.
Let’s remember that Elon Musk’s network is made up of more than 4 thousand satellites in orbit, that generate Internet service to remote points on Earth.
The wreck of the Titanic lies about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. Without any cell towers in the middle of the ocean, we are relying on @starlink to provide the communications we require throughout this year’s 2023 Titanic Expedition.
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—OceanGate Expeditions (@OceanGateExped) June 14, 2023
The problem is that it doesn’t reach under the sea. Here’s the key to why Elon Musk shouldn’t be held responsible for the Titan’s communication problems.
that explained it a user on Twitter, being corroborated by Elon Musk.
Starlink doesn’t offer satellite 📡 internet connections for deep sea water vessels, it’s also not even possible underwater, only surface buoyant ships use Starlink. This is how we know communication with the diving vessel is dark, a Starlink dish on the Oceangate surface ship,…
—K10✨ (@Kristennetten) June 21, 2023
“Starlink does not offer satellite Internet connections for deep sea vessels much less for those that are underwater,” he said. @Kristennetten. “Only the floaters use Starlink.”
This is how the OceanGate mothership communicated with the Titan submersible
Although the OceanGate mothership does use the satellite internet service provided by SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company, his communication with the Titan submersible was done in another way, with “acoustic link”.
In accordance with Stefan B Williams, professor at the Australian Center for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, the link was “configured via a transponder (a device for receiving a sonar signal) at its end, and a transceiver (a device that can transmit and receive communications ) on the surface vessel”.
“This link enables acoustic positioning underwater as well as sending short text messages back and forth to the surface vessel,” Williams stressed. “But the amount of data that can be shared is limited and typically includes basic telemetry and status information.”