Missing Titanic Sub
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Hijinx
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The Hunley made a few dives and successfully planted a torpedo before it went down for keeps.
And there was enough left to be recovered a hundred years later.
So here we have a 50 year old white guy that won't hire other 50 year old white guys, who built this thing himself and people were stupid enough to get into to go down 2 miles in it and it was controlled with a game boy controller.. No thanks .
And there was enough left to be recovered a hundred years later.
So here we have a 50 year old white guy that won't hire other 50 year old white guys, who built this thing himself and people were stupid enough to get into to go down 2 miles in it and it was controlled with a game boy controller.. No thanks .
Hijinx
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Ya know the thing wasn't that bad, it worked pretty well until it got down 2 miles and the pressure crushed.
He was in the wrong business. Touring the Titanic wasn't a really good idea. He could have made a dozen or so and sold them to the cartels. At 50 or a hundred feet deep thing worked fine. yep Dope would have made him rich and it was a lot safer.
IO wouldn't be surprised if someone he worked with ended up selling a few to the drug dealers.
He was in the wrong business. Touring the Titanic wasn't a really good idea. He could have made a dozen or so and sold them to the cartels. At 50 or a hundred feet deep thing worked fine. yep Dope would have made him rich and it was a lot safer.
IO wouldn't be surprised if someone he worked with ended up selling a few to the drug dealers.
Sure, we’ve all read about the wireless game controller and lights from Camping World being used in the construction of the Titan, the Titanic-touring submersible which suffered a catastrophic implosion last week, but those issues are just scratching the surface of what’s wrong when it comes to the design and build quality of the vessel.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush’s ability to convince people his sub was safe was disarming, even “predatory” as a friend of Titan victim Paul-Henri Nargeolet told Insider. But all the buzzwords in the world couldn’t cover some basic fatal design flaws. Let’s start with one of the most fundamental; its shape. According to the Associated Press:
The shape isn’t the only place Rush went wrong. This fascinating video from an engineer with experience in testing vessels in deep-sea environments breaks down the countless number of things that could have gone wrong on the submersible. While the entire setup seems a little sus to a laywoman like me, all of the issues YouTuber Just Alex dives into must have given anyone with actual technical knowledge of these vessels heart attacks:
jalopnik.com
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush’s ability to convince people his sub was safe was disarming, even “predatory” as a friend of Titan victim Paul-Henri Nargeolet told Insider. But all the buzzwords in the world couldn’t cover some basic fatal design flaws. Let’s start with one of the most fundamental; its shape. According to the Associated Press:
The shape isn’t the only place Rush went wrong. This fascinating video from an engineer with experience in testing vessels in deep-sea environments breaks down the countless number of things that could have gone wrong on the submersible. While the entire setup seems a little sus to a laywoman like me, all of the issues YouTuber Just Alex dives into must have given anyone with actual technical knowledge of these vessels heart attacks:
The Titan Submersible Was Designed And Built Even Worse Than You Think
Every element of the Titan, from its basic shape to the materials used, seemed destined to fail.
jalopnik.com
SamSpade
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's weird that this news item has just DISAPPEARED, when just a few days ago, it took up the entire news broadcast?
That in itself is weird. It's newsworthy, yes, and tragic. But it's a story about a bunch of rich guys diving down to a sunken ocean liner. If they had SUCCEEDED, we probably wouldn't have heard hardly anything about it.
That in itself is weird. It's newsworthy, yes, and tragic. But it's a story about a bunch of rich guys diving down to a sunken ocean liner. If they had SUCCEEDED, we probably wouldn't have heard hardly anything about it.
SamSpade
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I'm wondering what kind of testing they could possibly have done to ensure this thing was safe at those depths.
If what others are saying about the design is correct, likely nothing.
Everything said about the Carbon Fiber structure indicates that once in place, other than xray, it really couldn't be checked and the "monitoring system" that they built into it would only warn them when it was already too late to do anything about it.
There's a really good reason that those things are OVERbuilt, but apparently OceanGate didn't' subscribe to the practice.
Grumpy
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And it was known that carbon fiber weakens over time when stressed. It was a ticking timebomb when used repeatedly.
Here's a nice video clip that demonstrates what an implosion looks like in the real world. Keep in mind that the pressures underwater where the sub was would have been many times greater than what the train car experienced. Should start at 1:38 in the video, if not, go there manually to watch.
jrt_ms1995
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Golly gee!
I hope he was able to secure meetings with SpongeBob and Patrick.
