How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

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[@juliegolick]

I am shocked and appalled that you didn't send your writer Amy to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to confirm the conditions there. What is journalism even coming to these days?!

[@Spencergolde]

I am deeply concerned for Amy's safety. Not because of the legally and physically perilous stories she covers, that's just journalism. But her lack of appearances in the last few videos is truly worrying. I demand proof of life in the next video

[@NeonNijahn]

​@@Spencergoldeas am I. We need answers!

[@soumitrakandpal]

​@@Spencergoldeshe appeared in a JetLag video

[@johnladuke6475]

If Amy doesn't go there, I don't really believe anything. Especially if Sam tells me.

[@NeonNijahn]

@johnladuke6475 if Amy isn't in a video I'm not even a quarter as interested.

[@gimlisbeardcomb]

Step 1: don't build your sub from expired carbon fiber

[@mateusebozek-cj2em]

Step 2: Don't control your sub with an F17 controller

[@robk7266]

Step 3: don't put in a window

[@bmanning4999]

Or any carbon fiber really

[@pierrecurie]

@@mateusebozek-cj2em Ppl keep shitting on the controller, but it's really not an issue - even the US Navy does it. 1) A lot of ppl have used it at some point in their lives, so ppl can learn to use it quicker 2) the manufacturer has tested it thoroughly (which you have to do yourself for a new design). The wireless aspect was probably not wise, but who knows.

[@YaBoiDaCone257]

Carbon fiber expires?

[@monitor1939]

Fun fact: the limiting factor is owned by a company called inkfish. The owner of inkfish happens to be Gabe Newell, who beyond owning valve and steam needed to own the best submarine in the world I guess.

[@PhillyMotoXTS]

How else would he get the best real-world immersive experience of Subnautica?

[@Sirikiller]

How did this submarine manage to do its 3rd dive while being Gabe owned is beyond me, I thought he didnt know how to count to 3.

[@slyseal2091]

The only place where steam servers won't overheat during the summer sale

[@TroutBoneless]

GABENNNNN!!!

[@Cats-TM]

Clearly this means Valve is going to make a submarine based game in a million years after putting Gabe into a computer.

[@ieatgarbage8771]

Imagine testing a submarine before expedition lol

[@piuthemagicman]

what a wild and novel idea!

[@SchemingGoldberg]

Imagine hiring a bunch of old white dudes to design your submarine, instead of a bunch of incompetent diversity hires.

[@eritain]

Imagine building it out of a material that's strong in compression

[@mrdzin1209]

imagine spare no expenses to make sure it is safe lol

[@ValiantValium]

That sounds like something boring white men do. What would inspirational people do instead?

[@sfesfawfgasfhga]

@ 5:32 - CORRECTION - "if you want to get to the bottom of the ocean you need a multi-million dollar submersible" - technically, this is not true at all. Anyone could easily reach the bottom of the ocean with just some basic weights. However, the experience would be somewhat stressful.

[@yisabc1]

You only need a parachute to skydive twice

[@edwinhuang9244]

You'll need a lot of basic weights and a bit of luck.

[@brend5273]

I am genuinely impressed that you contained yourselves not to make any Titan jokes.

[@ButzPunk]

Makes sense if you want the video to still be relevant in a couple years when everyone's forgotten about that thing

[@brend5273]

@@ButzPunk However, nothing says HIA more than outdated pop culture references.

[@thePronto]

There was a lot of pressure. But the integrity of the video was not compromised.

[@johndoe6032]

There was definitely a Titan joke in there. It was just slightly subtle,

[@TAP7a]

@@theProntohe definitely didn’t collapse under the pressure

[@sabikikasuko6636]

Big kudos to you for not mentioning OceanGate and the Titan. I know that took restraint XD

[@Soul-Burn]

"that ensure nothing, um, bad happens" at 5:04 was that reference

[@mLevyks]

I really expected him to say that the joystick was not made by logitech when he mentioned it

[@bryanergau6682]

Annnnnnnd.......there it is.

[@danielvillalobos4265]

It just occurred to me... it was named Titan. Not that I'm superstitious but that was just the cherry on top of a cake of bad ideas

[@Silver-Arrow]

​@danielvillalobos4265 it was specifically for tourist expedions to the titanic so it was mainly a brand thing I think

[@Sophiebryson510]

[insert funny submarine joke here]

[@no_name4796]

They do... if they are built PROPERLY

[@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8]

Remember the Titan

[@benjaminvroman5553]

Aw man

[@OmiGundam777]

@@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8that was a submersible, not a submarine.

[@Crypto_prod35]

*Titan*

[@Carnivorousplantyum]

Subways subs don't survive in water at all. They get extremely soggy.

[@GeoffCostanza]

That's why there's room for it under the seat

[@Ryann9]

Substitute teachers, on the other hand, can survive in water, however they don't do well in very deep water.

[@jakeyounglol]

at least they don't implode

[@vandanabansal3441]

Let's do a collab between Sam from hai, sam from wendover and sam from jet leg the game They all have similar voices too

[@VVTheVictorious]

I feel that Sam from Crime Spree and Sam from The Layover should join as well. They look like identical twins.

[@Soul-Burn]

Also get Sam from Nebula!

[@knpark2025]

Yes. I will definitely watch Sam from Wendover do a piece on the Logistics of globe spanning game show, and he should call Sam from HAI to do a banger trivia piece in collaboration.

[@torbenmayer]

Everyone always forgets Sam from Extremities

[@okra_]

​@@torbenmayerthat's because he tragically died during the transition from podcast to youtube channel

[@safebox36]

In case anyone was wondering; the weights that get dropped are metal (usually steel), meaning they're technically environmentally friendly to just be left there. Plus someone from the Aquarius Reef Base can come pick them up at some point in the far future 😂.

[@PigeonHoledByYT]

I mean it's technically environmentally friendly when it drops on someone's house, human or deep see animal, so what me worry

[@rm_steele]

oh that's sad, i was hoping they were dropping milk jugs full of depleted uranium pellets

[@JoolsBurke]

So they could drop a magnet on a really long piece of string to bring them back up?

[@exharkhun5605]

Probably scavenged the night after the dive by Chinese loincloth-clad illegal salvage operators.

[@safebox36]

@@JoolsBurke the smaller ones might actually be since they're not emergency ones, pull them back into the submarine after it "lands"

[@gormauslander]

It's interesting how many things the Limiting Factor has that Oceangate did not. Like research. And a pressure tested hull.

[@jakeyounglol]

and a safe design in general

[@murdo_mck]

and plenty of money

[@jeffvarwig]

If you look closely at that list of people who rode the Limiting Factor to Challenger Deep, you'll see Hamish Harding. That means he 'd already ridden this state-of-the-art sub to the bottom of the ocean and knew what a legit sub looked like before he looked at the OceanGate contraption and somehow decided to trust his life in it, despite the obvious differences between the two vehicles.

[@weppwebb2885]

That's kind of a stupid statement, you can't just look at a submarine and decide if it's funktional or not. You can look at the company's experience, at the testing procedures or all the tests done with the new material, but just rejecting something because it looks different is not helpful. That's like all the people hating on the game controller just because it is a game controller and not a custom build thing with exactly the same purpose and a similar design.

[@johndoe6032]

@@weppwebb2885 Don't know for sure, but I would imagine he was told all about the work that went into the Limiting Factor and should have realized such a feat requires so much careful work that it should have been top of mind to check on that before getting on the Titan. However, I would not be surprised if the Oceangate CEO straight-up lied and said they did all of the same designing and testing. The guy was clearly unsafe and had loose sense of morals and integrity.

[@CMDKeenCZ]

@@weppwebb2885 Except some people *did* look at the submarine and the company and decided not to trust to trust their life with it, including on the last dive.

[@TheOtherSteel]

If only the Titan had been so conscientiously designed and bb built as the Limiting Factor, a truly amazing DSV.

[@juzoli]

No, that would’ve required more funding.

[@AshworthMild]

Right? ​ I was shocked the LF was only 37 million. We could get 3½ of them for the price of one fighter jet. The DOD needs to sign-off on a purchase order, pronto.

[@choo_choo_]

"If only..." "If only" nothin. Nothing better than a handful of 1-percenters getting their comeuppance. They're the ones destroying the oceans and the planet, seems only fair that the ocean claims them.

[@johndoe6032]

careful design and testing is for commie snowflakes!

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

​@@juzoli, and followed regulations which sTIflEd InnOvaTiON.

[@RealCoderCrafter]

Surprised he didn’t send HAI outside correspondent Amy to investigate

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

Can confirm, Titanium is a better material to build your sub out of than say, carbon fiber.

[@franzfanz]

My favourite fact about the first expedition is that Jacques Picard and Don Walsh dropped a weight with the flags of France and the United States attached to a small flagpole. Because the US has a law that the US flag cannot fly beneath another flag, the US flag was on top of the French one. Once they'd surfaced, Picard pointed out that that made the lowest object in the ocean a French flag, thus beating out the US by a few centimetres.

[@Tinil0]

That's obviously apocryphal because the US does not have a law that says the US flag cannot fly beneath another flag. Nor would it apply anyway in the middle of the ocean. That's asinine. The flag code says it should be flown above state, local, and non-governmental flags. For foreign flags, the flag code actually specifies it should NOT fly higher than them, and should in fact be the same size and at the same level. But again, it doesn't apply since the flag code explicitly only applies on American soil. Also the flag code is not even mandatory anyway, it's a non-binding guideline for custom.

[@somethingsomething404]

@@Tinil0nope, they kill people over it

[@OC-CPA]

@@somethingsomething404 Please explain.

[@Bonedagi]

@@somethingsomething404 🧢

[@danielcarrigan4934]

@@somethingsomething404They… don’t. Sure, maybe like in the 1800s or some sh*t but not anytime even remotely recently Maybe I’m wrong, and if so, please provide evidence

[@jessetorres8738]

Singing: "We all survive 36,201 feet below in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine."

[@anushagr14]

He did not tell about victor vescovo. That guy has so many records. Dived in all deepest points of 5 oceans. Climbed highest points on all continents. Discovered deepest shipwreck. He is a freaking legend.

[@PowerFan]

James Cameron thought Titanic’s depth was too shallow clearly

[@Merennulli]

I mean, he wrote it, he should know. At least he admits it.

[@piuthemagicman]

Mr. Cameron should've called the submarine "Untitanic"

[@Merennulli]

@@piuthemagicmanOr maybe "Reversible-Titanic"

[@johndoe6032]

Fits the movie.

[@PanduPoluan]

​@@piuthemagicmanHow about, "cinatiT" ?

[@rptbr]

It's not only small fish and plastic bags down there - sounds like there's a ton a discarded weights too

[@DeathaceGames]

Correction: How ‘Some’ Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

[@resolecca]

I can't imagine how deep that is when planes fly at around 36000 feet in the air

[@Aido1098]

Half as deep

[@robertgraham6481]

There's a great in-depth video on the making of the Limiting Factor on KZbin called "The Making of the Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) Limiting Factor - A Documentary by Nick Verola"

[@marklaw5116]

Fun Fact: the name Limiting Factor comes from the name of a spaceship in the novel The Player of Games, by Iain M Banks. It’s an absolutely amazing book, part of his Culture series. You should definitely read it.

[@thePronto]

Cameron's investors: "Jimmy, when are you going to finish that Avatar sequel?" Cameron: "I'm feeling a little creatively blocked, right now. Maybe I need a vacation." Investors: "The Challenger Deep wont be deep for much longer if you keep dropping your ballast down there." Cameron: "Guys, I'm seeking inspiration. The movie *is* called 'The Way of Water' after all."

[@nastropc]

Victor Vescovo - definite Bond villain name

[@emojiftw7333]

Might I say, sneaking in a hotdog for the sandwich section is quite risky, writers

[@Zuraneve]

Yeah, everyone knows a hot dog isn't a sandwich. It's obviously a taco.

[@Bird_Dog00]

Dude, that video was like realy deep, man.

[@route2070]

About 7 miles or 11km deep? There needs to be a 7/11 sponsorship on every trip.

[@wrob08]

Big Ben doesn't contribute very much to that combination of things for the height. I don't know the exact size, but like 10 - 20 feet or something, it's just a large bell.

[@rm_steele]

bad bit

[@xanthaz7399]

Parliament!

[@tarikawwad3710]

You should do a video of cities with multiple time zones. Like Beirut, Lebanon and Jeddito, AZ

[@User31129]

I see I'm sadly the first person to comment on this two weeks later sadly. Because that would be a great video idea! I find the half-hour timezones interesting. Like, why? Is 30 minutes really gonna make enough of a difference? They exist in Newfoundland, Canada and South Australia. Maybe it's a former British Colony thing.

[@davidthompson5589]

one thing of note they normally say fly rather than drive the Submarines as they move in more degrees of freedom than land vehicles.

[@Codewow]

The hotdog in the list of sandwiches is the most controversial thing I have seen today.

[@jonas1015119]

Victor Vescovo sound like the name a fake billionaire from a Bond movie would have, and his biography pretty much reads like one as well.

[@dnsbrules_01]

So basically Viktor didnt want to DIY a submarine that was controlled by a logitech ps3 controller that didnt have a failsafe or no comms requirement for everyone to see if they are alive and not imploded

[@jameshenner5831]

Wikipedia gives a range of depth of 10902-10929 meters for Challenger Deep. The the relatively simplistic calculation is that the water pressure is (101325 Pascals + (1030 kg/m^3)(9.805 m/s^2)(10929 meters) = 110474935.35 Pascals = 1090.3028 atmospheres or 16023.03 pounds per square inch. (assume that the density of sea water is 1030 kg/m^3, but really the water is compressible under heavy pressure.)

[@legothug]

The hotdog in with the pictures of sandwiches @3:22. Chef's kiss.

[@jakemauger8377]

The electromagnet holding ballast outside the hull is the greatest engineering solution I've ever heard.

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

Next Jet Lag Season, the boys Race to the Bottom of the World; get from the peak of Everest to the Challenger Deep

[@LRM12o8]

They aren't eccentric rich guys though. Eccentric? Yes! Guys? Apparently, yes! Rich? No! At least not yet.

[@kevintaylor791]

I'm honestly not sure weather to scold or praise the writer for the lack of OceanGate references. I'm all for anything that puts a wealth person in a precarious situation.

[@mirage1729]

Yay! an Iain M Banks reference referenced in a HAI video!

[@TheHylianBatman]

I love how James Cameron is just like "Yeah I'm also an oceanographer".

[@marcosmanilla7338]

Can't stop looking at the submarine's face

[@artoriassif3728]

Wow this is so neat I always thought that subs that could go that low were just built different

[@alisav8394]

Love the fact that the video made for the whole globe uses pound/feet/fahrenheit

[@owenfitzgerald5928]

How is it 27-40 people how do we not know the exact number of people who have been down there

[@maryhildreth754]

Why is a movie director our most experienced deep ocean explorer?

[@pierrecurie]

Rich guy with desire to explore.

[@chaim1842]

Just like how children yearn for the mines, rich dudes yearn for the Deep. Gabe Newell also now owns the Limiting Factor

[@General12th]

Ultimately, he's more than a movie director.

[@piuthemagicman]

why not?

[@currykingwurst6393]

He's more of a deep ocean explorer who happens to make movies to be able to fund his explorations.

[@limer324]

"Not an ideal vacation spot"

[@HarvestStore]

Great Video.

[@Iamthelolrus]

If the making of "The Abyss" didnt scare Cameron out of the water, nothing will.

[@tomhutchinson883]

2:47 didn't expect my home town to pop up in this video

[@stoic.little]

The Limiting Factor is now owned by Gabe Newell of Valve.

[@justincarter7954]

Why was this not bigger news, this is so much more interesting to me than elon buying twitter

[@Slyther_]

If only the OceanGate ceo watched this sooner

[@jur4x]

He called people building subs like this "A bunch of old boring people"

[@aeronautic2374]

The face on the submarine reminds me of the vehicles from the Octonauts!

[@jbj7599]

Now i gotta find what shop makes parts for this and apply

[@owenjames8575]

"The depth is unfathomable. Here it is in fathoms" im dying. Help

[@amehak1922]

The fuselage is designed for some compression

[@randomnessrules4971]

Best songs to play on the Limiting Factor: Queen -- Under Pressure Jordin Sparks -- No Air Metallica -- The Thing That Should Not Be (continue the list, please!)

[@kevinferrell8237]

Could really use that titanium ball in the tower 😅

[@mryou2434]

I am shocked and appalled we are filling the Marianas trench with discarded weights

[@borntowild480]

Man you made this video a few months later 😂😂. Wish the Titanic submarine guys should have sent this video 🤣

[@Dizzle93]

As always, great content but I'd like to make a correction: Density only has one child.

[@kre8or465]

So they just casually drop a bunch of pieces of (very heavy) metal garbage each time they go down there?

[@alt8791]

I cannot believe that you didn’t mention that the company that owns this thing is owned by Lord Gaben

[@SantaFe19484]

Intense!

[@EpicSpud]

especially ones made from oceangate

[@adamdickinson2894]

A shame this didn't come out a year ago...

[@LtLukoziuz]

The volume between video and ad read were HEAVILY unbalanced! Be warned!

[@carolinegelgot1038]

Amy! Is! So! Funny! Give her a raise

[@deniss2786]

The Russian Mir vehicles, actually used by James Cameron to film Titanic, built in 1987, could dive to 20k feet or 6km.

[@cxzact9204]

They're useful for exploring the Titanic and other sites at similar depths but completely useless in Challenger Deep, which is more than 11km beneath the surface.

[@eelsemaj99]

is this the next series of jet lag?

[@RealGhoda]

Correction How SOME submarines survive at 36,201 feet below

[@25KSubsWithNoVideosChallenge]

Once asked a crewman how deep his sub could go. He response was "All the way to the bottom if we are not careful".

[@SarthakShah-cb1ii]

This is full interesting

[@pianomaster30003]

Every sub should be this safe.

[@NeonNijahn]

We gonna talk about the concerned face that sub diagram makes?

[@tverdyznaqs]

2:51 yoooo I can see my house from here!!

[@TeKaMOTO]

0:38 What is this "Luuv" pyramid you're talking about? Because that's a picture of the Louvre pyramid.

[@Stephan-wf1ec]

I get why your channel is called half as interesting: because it has interesting scripts for the audio with only boring, mildly relevant stock footage for the video. Its half as interesting as it could be. Neat.

[@schnitzelsemmel]

What happens to all the weights it drops? Do they just pile up at the bottom of the sea?

[@queeny5613]

Awesome

[@benlltt]

The fact that the third person to go to challenger deep is James Cameron is one of the funniest facts of all time

[@pilhlip]

Why is the titanium hull in the middle of the vessel? Wouldn't the big box surrounding the perfectly circular titanium cylinder get destroyed at high pressures?

[@dyamonde9555]

i'm guessing the big box isn't actually a pressure vessel, only the ball in the middle is. The outside Box is probably just a semi-open framework to mount stuff on, like the boosters.

[@marshalltucker9690]

its 11km deep that is something i can comprehends

[@racecarrik]

So the new iphone, also made of titanium, can also go that deep? Neat

[@UmbraHand]

N…No.

[@The1stJesusMachine]

Nice

[@v1rotate349]

If only Stockton Rush had had access to this tutorial...

[@General12th]

Hi Sam!

[@ryanvanasse]

The shade vs the Titan in this video is THICK

[@lonelyPorterCH]

At least this sub was tested enough^^

[@brendangallagher4366]

So each time they leave a big steel weight on the bottom of the ocean?

[@stanleys.8224]

But how many Toyota Corollas would it take to be the same height?

[@lazarus2691]

Okay the fathom joke was pretty good.

[@Skittlz444]

12 seconds into the video and I saw the fathom joke coming, have I watched too much HaI?

[@triviszla1536]

OceanGate better be taking notes

[@oldgangster4119]

I feel comment section for this video is gonna implode

[@PiotrDrzymkowski]

"How to totally offend all European audience in the first minute of the video" BRAVO!

[@nickadams7775]

Title correction: How *some* submarines survive at 36,201 below

[@kodywillnauer9422]

Woah, woah… the hotdog is not a sandwich.