Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Soldato
Intriguing to know why Bob and the community think they dropped the ballast and were trying to resurface. Obviously if you know there’s a problem they would but why assume that over instant failure.
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Just read about another deep diving submersible, now owned by Gabe Newell (as of last year), it holds the world records for deepest dives across the five oceans and is the only submersible certified for unlimited ocean diving. Quite the fascinating read and it looks rather badass too.
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And the name is rather cool too 'DSV Limiting Factor'.
The records were broken by the previous owner, Victor Vescovo, before Gaben bought the company though. Still, the team still operate and dive to such depths, because the vehicle is fully rated to far beyond the deepest known depths for depth-unlimited diving.
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So yeah, if you follow the right paths in regulations, certifications and focus on engineering expertise, you can have a safe diving vehicle with depth-unlimited capabilities anywhere on Earth.
DSV Limiting Factor - Wikipedia
And the name is rather cool too 'DSV Limiting Factor'.
The records were broken by the previous owner, Victor Vescovo, before Gaben bought the company though. Still, the team still operate and dive to such depths, because the vehicle is fully rated to far beyond the deepest known depths for depth-unlimited diving.
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So yeah, if you follow the right paths in regulations, certifications and focus on engineering expertise, you can have a safe diving vehicle with depth-unlimited capabilities anywhere on Earth.
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Yup. When they said, "We might not be able to recover the bodies," they were essentially saying politely, "There is nothing faintly resembling a human body to recover."
Basically vapourised.
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That forging was epic
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Caporegime
What a time to be alive. What a timeline to live in.
Soldato
The engineers that did the work on the design.
It's the boss who has ultimate responsibility tho, not the engineers. The boss sets the budget, the design parameters, decides how much focus to place on safety, etc.
Caporegime
Yikes. He knew. He knew, but he did it anyway.
Can't cheat physics, my man.
Can't cheat physics, my man.
Dunno if they are right but people in the comments claiming the bonding used for the carbon fibre and titanium sections was only rated for 1/3rd of the forces at Titanic depth...
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So death was quicker than in an instant.
So death was quicker than in an instant.
Hubris.
He called himself an innovator, but in reality he just looks like a bit of a cheapskate, who was cutting corners.
Clearly if the thing imploded, it likely was totally unfit for purpose.
Maybe the previous dives had led to critical material fatigue, and because he likely wasn’t getting the hull X-ray’d between dives to check for fatigue, he pushed it too far and never knew (or maybe didn’t care)
He called himself an innovator, but in reality he just looks like a bit of a cheapskate, who was cutting corners.
Clearly if the thing imploded, it likely was totally unfit for purpose.
Maybe the previous dives had led to critical material fatigue, and because he likely wasn’t getting the hull X-ray’d between dives to check for fatigue, he pushed it too far and never knew (or maybe didn’t care)
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This is what happens when you ask ChatGPT to write your articles
yup the boss is on record for saying he employs young people (inexperienced) and not older people that know better and also was bragging about cutting corners and apparently more experienced people that raised concerns were fired......
it is a horrible situation for all involved i just hope they died before their brains could register what was happening.
also who the hell picks a decade old pc controller with 1 star reviews to pilot some thing your live depends on, the whole situation just beggars believe.
edit: theres pure evil and completly UNfunny idiots on tik tok relishing in this which is making me think humanity is just doomed, people are getting off on this and laughing about it
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I am more dumfounded that all this media footage, these interviews and docs surrounded this company and sub, yet people chose to sign a waiver that cited three possible causes of death, pay £250k and get inside this thing, without questioning anything.
Thisnis why i find it wild so many news outlets are still asking if the bodies will be recovered
The reality is there is no bodies, the air inside the hull would have been super heated from the compression. The diesel engine is a good example - even before fuel is injected the air inside the cylinder that gets compressed by the piston is at 1000F and this sub would have been under more pressure than that piston so the temp would be even higher.
Another example I've seen - fly a fighter jet at Mach 3 into the side of a mountain and see if you find a body
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Soldato
There is an experiment that produces the same effect.
Molten salt poured in to water. What happens is the salt contracts when it cools. It also solidifies. At first, the salt produces an outer shell that is hard, with a hot liquid interior. But the liquid continues to cool and contract.... until the pressure causes the hard shell to collapse - the blob implodes.....
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The implosion causes a rapid expansion of steam, which generates large pressures. You can see that death is instant. Destruction is total. This is the scale of forces you would get at a depth of 4Km.
Molten salt poured in to water. What happens is the salt contracts when it cools. It also solidifies. At first, the salt produces an outer shell that is hard, with a hot liquid interior. But the liquid continues to cool and contract.... until the pressure causes the hard shell to collapse - the blob implodes.....
Pouring Molten salt into Water - Explosion!
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The implosion causes a rapid expansion of steam, which generates large pressures. You can see that death is instant. Destruction is total. This is the scale of forces you would get at a depth of 4Km.
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