It would have to be with an ROV attaching flotation or lines to it. I have worked with ROV's at 9000 metres during the past, the problems it creates is horrendous. Oil filled cables to stand the pressure, you cant use electrolytic capacitors they get crushed, Motors have to have pressure compensation to avoid the massive pressure difference between inside and out, hydraulic pumps have to be specially built, the pressure on the outside is greater than the pressure they produce, all junction and termination boxes, plugs and sockets are oil fill and pressure compensated. One of our party tricks was take a polstyrene cup down depth, when we came back the large cup was the size a thimble.
The whole thing sounds a complete mess. It has weights attached to make it negatively buoyant i.e. it sinks, when it needs to come up it drops the weights, what a crazy idea, if the weights dont release? What if you need to slow the ascent for any reason? They claim not to guarantee seeing the titanic which suggests their skillset / equipment is sub standard (no pun intended), modern tech can get cm accuracies under water and we would absolutely manage to get to the Titanic with an ROV without a problem.
Thats one of the crazy things about this setup. With ROV's there's a pole that sticks out under the vessel, USBL Ultra Short Base Line. It has an acoustic transducer like sonar and with clever tech involved the ROV can be accurately placed relative to the vessel. The vessel can of course use GPS or some of the more accurate maritime systems to be in a know position so we could get an ROV within cm's of where we need to be. On one job we had to recommission an abandoned wellhead, its a 20" diameter steel pipe sticking up out the ground by around a metre. We got to the location and it wasn't there but so confident with the positioning we started to dig (using water jets), 4 metres down we found the well head, the sand on the seabed had been drifted and buried the wellhead. The equipment is there for accurate positioning and this company doesn't use it, why? I can imagine my response to their offer - £200,000 for a trip to see the Titanic (you might not actually see it if we cant find it), you get to sit on the floor in a cramped mini sub for 10 hours.
It sure is, it's just they dont know where they are! how mad is that?
Especially given they have done multiple trips.
Yes it would but not enough to miss the Titanic which is a bit big
I kept one! This is from Offshore Nile Delta sometime in the 2000's (Sedco Express I think) It was an Oceaneering ROV that sent a bunch of them down in a small cargo net - only 715m water depth but already less that half size.
