Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Yeah I work in defence engineering where part of the job is change management, even changing some nuts and bolts on surface bolted items on a ship initiates the quizzing and impact assessments from basically all team disciplines that might be affected by the change and then the review cycles for each one that follows before can be OKd. NASA isn't going to build something or help with something without knowing all the dots and lines are accounted for tbh.
I think that'll depend on what they find tbh. I wouldn't mind seeing the empty vessel but if there's any semblance of suffering or remains I doubt they'll air anything for a while.
Caporegime
Which makes total sense as the hull was the weakest and untested entity. It was always the part that was going to fail because it is untested. Most likely fatigue from previous runs. I know from my cars that aftermarket carbon prop shafts are only warranted for a certain time/mileage which just put me off even though they can handle way more torque in a specified direction and are lighter.
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My last client was the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, where they do a LOT of underwater research for the MoD. I know perhaps 0.0000001% of what the team their know and some of the things they told me really educated me on how these things work. I very rapidly learned about tolerances, torque, stress, fatigue, etc.
As you say - even changing a bolt from stainless to titanium would require a massive process as these two materials, whilst widely regarded as being some of the toughest in the biz, still have weaknesses. Titanium for example would last a fraction of what stainless would in salt water.
There will be no remains , crushed and then whats left gone in the ocean is what happens , hull is gone . May get some photos of the landing frame and possibly the rear cover but doubt we will see anymore than that
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There will not be any remains left at all, they would have basically been completely destroyed and any biological material in the water already consumed by ocean life.
There was a guy on TikTok following sharks on a tracking app - 2 sharks apparently went directly to the titanic wreck area, and have remained in the area since…….likely they picked up the blood in the water, strange coincidence 2 sharks went directly to the area of the titanic for no apparent reason & surfaced to allow their transmitters to work, sharks tend to exist near the surface to get warm before diving really deep depending on the species……..the fact the sharks have transmitters says they are a type that likes to swim at all depths.
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Soldato
Yeah may well have been him that wanted to go in the first place, but can't help feeling his dad should have known better, especially as he's a businessman / director etc, so would be used to doing due diligence, checking things out etc
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and still a gaping hole in their technology
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Rest in peace.
Small mercy that they didn't suffer.
Small mercy that they didn't suffer.
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Now you’re telling me you dont understand how physics works
They did lose communication 1hr 45 into the 2hr dive. I know that had happened before but I think it's safe to assume it failed at that point.
Shouldn't drop like a stone in a power failure though.
Caporegime
The debris field will presumably be very small if that happened. If it went pop higher up you would have a much larger radius.
I am pretty certain all the data and telemetry will reveal everything and they knew this outcome more than likely from the start.
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Wouldn't it just shatter into loads of fragments being CF ?
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