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Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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No, there's one showing it as if there was a camera filing the actual vessel in the water.
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Why would it not be safe ? It's science and education, science and education is fine
LEAKED Titan Sub Transcript Shows Crew In Battle For Lives
Jeff Ostroff reviews the leaked Titan Sub Transcript which the internet is debating the authenticity of, to see if this scenario is real, and whether the Tit...
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That sounds quite a realistic transcript to me.
LEAKED Titan Sub Transcript Shows Crew In Battle For Lives
Jeff Ostroff reviews the leaked Titan Sub Transcript which the internet is debating the authenticity of, to see if this scenario is real, and whether the Tit...
That sounds quite a realistic transcript to me.
If that is true then I would guess that there was an early breach in the rear part of the hull containing the electrics. If water had seeped in near the surface then it wouldn't have caused an immediate implosion. The extra weight of the water could account for the faster than expected descent as well as the ineffective dropping of ballast mentioned in the transcript. Despite a breach perhaps the water in that rear section prevented a complete collapse, at least at first, because the pressure was equalised. It would also explain why the motors were seemingly running at low power due to an electrical failure. They mention switching from battery bank A to B but don't mention whether that actually changed any speed of ascent. Perhaps the banging noises could also have been electrical components failing as well as the hull about to fail.
Then the rest of the hull went.
Man of Honour
The "banging" noises were heard long after the suspected time of implosion^^ The noises were almost certainly unrelated to the implosion as the USCG guy said in the press conf later.
Soldato
Pretty much exactly my thoughts from the transcript and video.
If the rear was already breached then there would have been no jet or sudden pressure equalisation.
Just lots of extra weight as the water had filled what I assume would have been filled with air normally.
I guess if they lost the remaining power so couldn't ascend they would have maybe had to try something and potentially thats when the implosion happened.
Or random thought, they knew they were done, had lost power and did something to deliberately kill themselves rather than sit there waiting to die.
Nasty by the sounds of it. I think everyone hoped they were just zapped with no warning.
Of course it could be all fake.
Man of Honour
OceanGate director quit when CEO asked her to take control of sub
OceanGate's former finance director reveals she quit her post when the CEO asked her to take the controls of the doomed Titan submersible.
Man of Honour
Given what we now know about the CEO, wouldn't put it past him to order the dive continue at whatever rate because he's confident in it or whatever and as they've dived before, it just became the norm.
A leak of previous dive transcripts will confirm if the fast dive matches previous dives. James Cameron or the inner circle of submersible folks can also confirm because if it's legit then the leak happened through that circle.
A leak of previous dive transcripts will confirm if the fast dive matches previous dives. James Cameron or the inner circle of submersible folks can also confirm because if it's legit then the leak happened through that circle.
I get the feeling that's not fake and the transcript is being passed around privately between inside people.
If it was leaking and that was the cause of this faster descent, why wouldn't they notice, or is the rear somehow separated from cockpit area?
If it was leaking and that was the cause of this faster descent, why wouldn't they notice, or is the rear somehow separated from cockpit area?
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Don
Afaik it was a completely separate compartment with a bulkhead between. Although you would hope they would have had some kind of leak detection or a camera in there?
Different bangs. The transcript refers to a lot of noise (I think they said bangs but might have used a different word), which the crew were worried about. This is all assuming the transcript is real of course.
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That sounds like too much common sense to be applied by this CEO.
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Just realised one other piece of evidence. In the video showing debris being brought ashore there were at least two large hull sections reasonably intact. One commentator said they appeared to be from the rear area. But we didn't see any of the hull from the passenger compartment. This tallies with the theory that the rear section had leaked at a much higher altitude and therefore wasn't subject to the same pressure when further down (because it no longer had air inside).
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There was a partition with a tv screen and all the electrics behind that wall, there's some clips where you can see Stockton working on the stuff behind the partition, I don't think it was leaking, they would have noticed and a leak at that depth would be catastrophic without giving them time to go through that transcript
This diagram shows a titanium cap behind the bulkhead. So is may have been possible to leak without them knowing.
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Someone mentioned the laminated layers of carbon fibre could have delaminated becoming waterlogged? Not sure if that's a valid failure mode for this material at these depths? Could CF delaminate like that allowing water to force itself between the layers?