Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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The inside of the capsule was at 14.7psi or 1bar. Outside was 6000psi or 41.3bar. The capsule wasn't decompressed, all the air in it and in the 5 people was compressed in the blink of an eye. I doubt there was anything except some teeth without fillings, maybe some bones but most of them contain air as well.
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I have a suspicion there is a strong rebounding force after collapsing a bubble like that. Not of great duration but a shockwave as the water slams into itself from all directions, compressing the air to silly numbers then normalising.
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This is what I think could be it as well. The water isn’t compressible but the air is. The rapid change of pressure could have shocked the acrylic dome. If there were some CAD models of this it would be interesting to simulate it.
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Genuine question, how does scientific research on the wreck benefit anyone or anything?
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Wasn't the dome only certified to 1300m? I wonder if the repeated exposures to 3 times that depth could have caused it to fail. Although i do think the failure of the Carbon Fibre is more likely. Titanium bits look good though.
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It is a unique opportunity for the study of how life reacts to these things appearing in their environment. It's been down there 111 years and the bacteria causing the rusticles are eating a serious amount of the hull every day - eventually there won't be anything left at all. There was a new species discovered there which has literally been given Titanic in it's Latin name. It was also down there for over 70 years before we found it and started investigating.
So what is the benefit of studying that?
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Rusticles sounds a bit like testicles and that's something.
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What is the benefit of studying anything? Why do we send experiments up to the ISS to conduct them in microgravity? To gain knowlege about how the universe works, and in this case biology. Some things you can't replicate in a lab.
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One thing I can think of straight away is that the steel used is "pre-nuclear" (or Low Background Steel) and therefore not contaminated by any fallout like steel made today is. This makes it very useful for scientific and medical measuring material. There's probably many other reasons but thats the one that jumps into my head first.
You'd be surprised, there are a lot of different materials on that ship which will likely never have been exposed to that kind of environment before. Studying them will help understand how they react.
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Surprised how much of it they managed to recover and also in pretty short time.
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A carbon fibre tube is ridiculously strong however.
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Also it can give you an idea of how fast things are decaying and how it varies with depth and location, and prove a useful "easy" to locate place to monitor the ecosystem over a long period of time for changes, as opposed to say dropping to a random spot you've got a lovely (relatively) big marker for you to move around with various different environments (open, sheltered etc).
IIRC it was thought for a long time that at that sort of depth there wouldn't be enough oxygen in the water for something to rust out (or something like that), which is proving not to be the case.
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Seems they've found "presumed" human remains in the wreckage recovered - grim.
news.sky.com
'Presumed human remains' found in wreckage of Titan sub
The US Coast Guard said medical professionals will analyse the presumed human remains after they were "carefully recovered" from debris on the sea floor.
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