people seem to think titanium is stronger than steel, but it defintely isn't - is weight actually important in a submersible?
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Depends if you want to resurface or not...
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more balast? clearly a trade off though
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I wonder if any of the external cameras survived? Can camera's even capture something as quick as the implosion happening?
I guess anything on the inside would have got completely vaporised? Imagine if an SD card or something survived?
I guess anything on the inside would have got completely vaporised? Imagine if an SD card or something survived?
I think buoyancy is a factor of volume displaced. So you could make it larger in volume to counteract the extra weight of steel. However you now have a larger surface area for pressure to exert upon so your design needs to be stronger.
Depends on which Trade off you want
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If you look at the boats using titanium sphere - it's weight is offset by maybe 6 times it's volume of bouyancy material they get from (not very compressable) glass beads emedded in resin, whereas predecessors had used tanks of petrol!
I wonder why I don't watch many youtube videos.
so that guy is the female equivalent of the girl with the bathwater he gives his fans bottles of sea water from the vicinity,Main video...Seeing them clamp that door closed I was like uuhhh nope!
I wonder why I don't watch many youtube videos.
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I posted it yesterday but I'll post again as it's pretty informative of what it was like for the customers pre dive and shows abit more of the clown show operation especially where they mention numerous issues they had to fix with the sub, it really could have been this guy who died as lucky for him, his dive to the Titanic got cancelled, the next dive was the one we all know now
edit - I see somebody else posted it again above lol
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Depends on the grade of steel. Titanium is usually best in this situation due to the lower density. It’s also very resistant to corrosion.
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A competent designer of pressure vessels, cylinders with hemispherical ends would if asked, prepare a check and analysis of the structural capacity and capability of the submersible.
Questions would be raised on novel features of the design, testing and certification no doubt. However it appears that when questions were asked, they were ignored or the guy was fired.
It is not rocket science, the mode of loading is easily verified and calculated. Modes of failure likewise, buckling etc. It is the fairly novel materials and connections between that are the issue
Questions would be raised on novel features of the design, testing and certification no doubt. However it appears that when questions were asked, they were ignored or the guy was fired.
It is not rocket science, the mode of loading is easily verified and calculated. Modes of failure likewise, buckling etc. It is the fairly novel materials and connections between that are the issue
Not only that but the whole cavalier attitude surrounding this thing. The way this project was handled was like someone building a bicycle in a shed. The vids and stuff coming out are truly astonishing, one chap in a vid posted earlier in this thread had footage of him being weighed before the dive, in someone's living room, on a scale you could probably buy at Argos, on a carpet.
Like I've said before in this thread, each of these little things on their own don't really pose a problem, but when all viewed together it paints a picture of an extremely concerning nature, to the point that I've now lost sympathy for most of the occupants as they should've clocked from a mile off that this was a disaster waiting to happen.
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If you can't beat them, join them
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A much more balanced take from an excellent channel:
Commissario
Fascinating interview with a Titanic survivor.
Anyone else get a dose of the Barry Goldberg's from that guy?
Lol can’t believe there are so many people voluntarily going into that thing. I understand if BBC or NBC send you in. But fee paying willing lab rate just LOL. Shame this death trap can only kill 5 morons at a timeMain video...
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I'm pretty sure I read a journalist was told by Rush thatof they were using carbon fibre from Boeing that was past its airline shelf life.
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Jesus. That’s only good for prototyping.
Commissario
One thing this whole charade has demonstrated is the awful American pronunciation of buoy. It took me quite a few days to realise that was what they meant by “boo-ee”.
Interesting article suggesting the sub was making an ascent at the time of the implosion
www.wrvo.org
James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble
The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.
www.wrvo.org