Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Space tourists are not astronauts
Man of Honour
Why do you keep repeating this as if it makes it all ok?
Yes it went down before, BUT the key thing you keep not mentioning is that it was not certified by any regulating body to that depth, or any depth for that matter, and material fatigue was noted by the fired employee as a safety concern as well as various other issues like the viewport only being rated for half the depth in the first instance.
Just because it dived down there a few times does not make it safe as it never underwent proper testing for those depths.
And yes, it clearly wasn't up to the job, if it was then the CEO would have had it certified instead of making false claims on media that were later found to be not true.
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It wasn't even half the depth, more like 1/3 at 1300 meters
I know it's no comfort to the families, but if it had been me I would have definitely preferred to go that way rather than sitting in a metal prison for several days while slowly running out of air knowing my rescue is virtually impossible even if I were found.
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Caporegime
Myself personally I am all for trying new things but doing it the right way is what I am getting at. I am not saying that the carbon fibre hull isn't a bad idea but it needs to be tested fully.
It has essentially gone into service without any proper testing. You can understand this kind of concept in the space race days but we have come on a little bit since then as a human race. It was a totally avoidable incident and waste of life that gets me.
Soldato
Would you be happy to buy and drive a car that could only make it 200 miles before the wheels fell off and the engine exploded?
Caporegime
Titanic submersible implosion, 5 dead. RIP.
Man of Honour
Live chat with Piers Morgan, not a fan of the guy, but he has a guest on that did spend time on the Titan in the past
Soldato
There are several blogs on their site (now offline but accessible via web archive) but they don’t have much info.
There is so many things wrong with the design of this submersible I'm surprised these billionaires didn't carry out their due diligence.
When you watch the videos Mr rush done with he press boasting that he uses a cheap game pad (supposedly modified) and bought a handle (maybe it's a light) from a hardware store and his general disregard for safety, then you read the information that the fired ex CEO put out years ago about the lack of safety there is just absolutely no way I would go down there.
The fact it's already been down 3 times would make me even more nervous due to the fatigue stresses.
Surely something like this should be a 1 time use only on the grounds of safety with the pressures that are involved.
When you watch the videos Mr rush done with he press boasting that he uses a cheap game pad (supposedly modified) and bought a handle (maybe it's a light) from a hardware store and his general disregard for safety, then you read the information that the fired ex CEO put out years ago about the lack of safety there is just absolutely no way I would go down there.
The fact it's already been down 3 times would make me even more nervous due to the fatigue stresses.
Surely something like this should be a 1 time use only on the grounds of safety with the pressures that are involved.
Caporegime
It’s a wreck site of a 46,000 ton ship which tore in two on sinking, there’s countless pieces of debris moving around - and making noises - in the strong currents at that depth - the Titanic’s resting place is not a peaceful one.
Clear empty spaces of ocean floor are indeed silent, not spaces where such a large vessel lies in a tangled mess….
Caporegime
The rear faring wasn't part of the pressure vessel. It more than likely held all the guts of it. It was basically a toilet roll made of carbon fibre with two titanium steel end bells glued on with the only way of entry and exit being bolted in one end. The whole thing was controlled wirelessly too. No cables running into the pressure vessel.
No, they wouldn't be. Human body is mostly water, actual volume probably wouldn't drop that much, beyond the airy bits. Still going to be very terminal, very quickly.
It's all a bit grim just to think about.
Commissario
I posted these before, time to do so again.
When a submarine implodes, a variety of fairly ugly things will happen to the crew. If we assume that a pressure hull implodes at 2000 feet (~60 atmospheres), the pressure will increase from 14.7 to about 875 PSI almost instantly. In the parts of the submarine that have volumes of trapped air, it would be like being inside a diesel engine cylinder when begins its compression stroke.
Anything flammable would burst into flames until a huge wall of water slams into the area and snuffs it out again. The impact of the water would cause significant injury to anyone unlucky enough to still be alive and there would be no time to suffer the effects of oxygen poisoning or anything else.
As others have stated, most human tissues are fluid-filled and are for the most part, incompressible. Human lungs and sinuses would be crushed instantly and the immense shock would render them unconscious immediately. Of greater concern would be the surge of incoming seawater, bulkheads, decks, heavy equipment, motors and other random bits of equipment being slammed into the crew at high velocity.
Essentially, the crew would be killed several times over in less than a blink of an eye.
According to several articles about the loss of the Scorpion, when the pressure hull failed, water entering the hull was moving at supersonic speeds and had filled the entire space in within 100 milliseconds.
The collapse produced with a force equivalent to 6000 kg of TNT.
Anything flammable would burst into flames until a huge wall of water slams into the area and snuffs it out again. The impact of the water would cause significant injury to anyone unlucky enough to still be alive and there would be no time to suffer the effects of oxygen poisoning or anything else.
As others have stated, most human tissues are fluid-filled and are for the most part, incompressible. Human lungs and sinuses would be crushed instantly and the immense shock would render them unconscious immediately. Of greater concern would be the surge of incoming seawater, bulkheads, decks, heavy equipment, motors and other random bits of equipment being slammed into the crew at high velocity.
Essentially, the crew would be killed several times over in less than a blink of an eye.
According to several articles about the loss of the Scorpion, when the pressure hull failed, water entering the hull was moving at supersonic speeds and had filled the entire space in within 100 milliseconds.
The collapse produced with a force equivalent to 6000 kg of TNT.
When a submarine exceed its crush depth, and finally implodes, the water rushes in at 200 tons per square inch (or more) at thousands of miles an hour. Everything in the submarine disintegrates into a thousand pieces in an instant. One moment the crew is alive, the next, they are not. No time to think - just <POOF> gone. No time to feel anything - just >POOF< gone. No time to worry - just <POOF> gone
No one in the crew will even have time to think ‘uh oh… this is it’ or even ‘uh oh’. They won’t even have time for their eyes to relay messages to their brain of the ship disintegrating in front of them before they are gone. Here one instant, not there the next.
No one in the crew will even have time to think ‘uh oh… this is it’ or even ‘uh oh’. They won’t even have time for their eyes to relay messages to their brain of the ship disintegrating in front of them before they are gone. Here one instant, not there the next.
As a former reactor operator aboard SSN-595 originally designated Thresher class but changed to Permit class after the Thresher sinking, if I remember my physics this is what happens when the hull implodes.
Remember how a tire pump heats up as you inflate your bike tire? That's what occurs when the water rushes in at tremendous velocity. The air heats up to hundreds of degrees in a millisecond burning you alive just to extinguish you within that same second.
Remember how a tire pump heats up as you inflate your bike tire? That's what occurs when the water rushes in at tremendous velocity. The air heats up to hundreds of degrees in a millisecond burning you alive just to extinguish you within that same second.
That acoustic signal originated near 46-10S, 59-42W at 1358Z (GMT) on 15 November 2017. It was produced by the collapse (implosion) of the ARA SAN JUAN pressure-hull at a depth of 1275-feet. Sea pressure at the collapse depth was 570 PSI. The frequency of the collapse event signal (bubble-pulse) was about 4.4 Hz.
The energy released by the collapse was equal to the explosion of 12,500 pounds of TNT at the depth of 1275-feet. That energy was produced by the nearly instantaneous conversion of potential energy (sea-pressure) to kinetic energy, the motion of the intruding water-ram which entered the SAN JUAN pressure-hull at a speed of about 1800 mph.
The entire pressure-hull was completely destroyed (fragmented/compacted) in about 40 milliseconds (0.040s or 1/25th of a second), the duration of the compression phase of the collapse event which is half the minimum time required for cognitive recognition of an event.
Although the crew may have known collapse was imminent, they never knew it was occurring. They did not drown or experience pain. Death was instantaneous.
The energy released by the collapse was equal to the explosion of 12,500 pounds of TNT at the depth of 1275-feet. That energy was produced by the nearly instantaneous conversion of potential energy (sea-pressure) to kinetic energy, the motion of the intruding water-ram which entered the SAN JUAN pressure-hull at a speed of about 1800 mph.
The entire pressure-hull was completely destroyed (fragmented/compacted) in about 40 milliseconds (0.040s or 1/25th of a second), the duration of the compression phase of the collapse event which is half the minimum time required for cognitive recognition of an event.
Although the crew may have known collapse was imminent, they never knew it was occurring. They did not drown or experience pain. Death was instantaneous.
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So this would be a better way to die than being eaten by a shark right?
Stockton Rush talks here about a hydraulic pump inside that connects outside the sub to release ballast. So there must have been at least one entry point.
https://youtu.be/uD5SUDFE6CA from 21:15
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