Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.

Freakbro said:
www.bbc.co.uk

US billionaire plans submersible trip to Titanic wreck

The private submersible industry was shaken after the implosion of the OceanGate Titan sub last year.
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I saw the headline and was like :eek::rolleyes:

But reading the article at least it sounds like this guy is going to be doing it properly.
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Sounds exactly what James Cameron did back in the day: got folks that knew how to submarine to design, build and operate it.
 
cu3ed said:
Surly if I got 2 bath tubs and welded the edges together I should be okay right?...I got a old Xbox controller, I mean it had savage stick drift but I mean It'll work.
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If the bath tubs are cast iron bath they will be difficult to weld. Riveting the two halves would be ok though.
 
It still astounds me that nobody thought to question the most basic flaw of the geometry that a cylinder has at those depths, even the most awful engineer ought to know it's spheres only after a point.
 
StriderX said:
It still astounds me that nobody thought to question the most basic flaw of the geometry that a cylinder has at those depths, even the most awful engineer ought to know it's spheres only after a point.
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It wasn't the shape, it was the choice of materials (carbon fibre) and durability.. it made the titanic depths 13 times (alledgedly)..

Of course, people choose spheres for a reason, but this guy would have still chosen carbon fibre and no doubt relied on his NDT acoustic sensors so you'd only know it was fatigue'd and about to go when it was all too late.

The reason he chose a cylinder was to allow groups of people to go in relative 'comfort'..

I know he was an idiot and it was a spectacular display of ignorance, but the fact it made so many dives whilst being constructed so 'wrongly' was actually quite impressive to me.
 
Saw a dumb meme the other day featuring shots of debris from the sub and it wasn't just bits of the sub it was human remains as well.... not a pretty sight. I mean the people who died had a lot of money so haha, right? :rolleyes:
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Saw a dumb meme the other day featuring shots of debris from the sub and it wasn't just bits of the sub it was human remains as well.... not a pretty sight. I mean the people who died had a lot of money so haha, right? :rolleyes:
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Sick but surely that has to be fake, they would have been vapourised/liquidised at that pressure and those energy levels?
 
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It strikes me that that Stockton Rush was an absolute idiot. A businessman, who failed to listen to others, and formed conclusions that he was simply not qualified to form. I mean, seriously, any idiot would know that carbon fibre is not suitable for the job, and even if someone didn't know that, there are plenty of warnings out there from a community that surely does. He was an arrogant fool who cost the lives of the people who trusted him.
If I sound angry, I am. I am tired of businessmen not taking science seriously.
 
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Day 2, currently the original whistleblower is giving his evidence, really fascinating stuff

Stockton's design for a CO2 scrubber

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SpellowHouse said:
It strikes me that that Stockton Rush was an absolute idiot. A businessman, who failed to listen to others, and formed conclusions that he was simply not qualified to form. I mean, seriously, any idiot would know that carbon fibre is not suitable for the job, and even if someone didn't know that, there are plenty of warnings out there from a community that surely does. He was an arrogant fool who cost the lives of the people who trusted him.
If I sound angry, I am. I am tired of businessmen not taking science seriously.
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Was just reading some of the BBC text on this and saw the photo of some carbon fibre with a torch being shone through it. You could see the light coming through. I'd want something a little more suitable than flimsy carbon fibre if I'm diving down to anywhere near the depths of the Titanic wreckage. Absolutely horrific that Rush was able to make a submersible in this way and no-one felt able to overrule him. If it was just him in the submersible when it imploded I'd say that he got what he deserved. Unfortunately this arrogant idiot's ego took a few other lives with him.
Minusorange said:

Day 2, currently the original whistleblower is giving his evidence, really fascinating stuff

Stockton's design for a CO2 scrubber

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Oh lordy! Again the BBC text said Stockton didn't want to use a scrubbers from a renowned industry but the BBC text didn't show what Stockton used instead. Makes me wonder why no-one who got in didn't see the scrubber and just get back out again.
 
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