goodmorning, no I don't shoot today :)

question: was there a issue with Thomas Jefferson vessel ?
anybody ??

Thomas Jefferson is still off of Key West.. running around in strange patterns.

oh you have noticed that too

with the sec question, I mean, navy submarines, no Bathyscaaf type of subs

They have been to the deepest part of the ocean..
The Trieste was a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe ("deep boat") with a crew of two, which reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 metres (35,797 ft), in the deepest known part of the ocean on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam, on January 23, 1960.

As far as a true submarine ... apparantly, this 'super sub' can go much deeper than anyone would have thought possible.

so, 1500 meters for several subs in GOM is possible ?

I have been out of the sub loop for a few years, but, to my knowledge, crush depth on a nuke sub was at about 2200ft... or so. The newest attack subs would not necessarily be able to go too much deeper... if of a conventional design. To go to 5000ft would require an unconventional design, of which I know absolutely nothing about.


There is one. I can't tell you about it, but there is one design for a conventional looking sub to be able to go VERY deep. From back in the 1980's. I don't know if it was ever implemented. Costs would have been at least 50% more than normal for the same size sub.