Plus video of the front or rear titanium "bell" cap:
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1674192497470328837
Posted on 06/28/2023 8:12:22 AM PDT by Morgana
That controller would be worth real gold!
Not sure from the photos. There are large parts of the white carapace, one of which has a black underside: hard to tell if that is part of the carbon fiber vessel or just black coating on the inside of the carapace, or if the carapace was also thinner carbon painted white on the outside.
Practice is good. I look at it as a training exercise.
Known time of descent beginning, known rate of descent, and time the hydrophones picked up the sound of the implosion.
Imho. I believe it was on its way back up. Desperately tried to remove weights. They knew what was coming.
That’s the time when both sonar and comms went out.
The titanium end cap was epoxied to the carbon fiber hull.
In a dirty warehouse with no dust control.
Guess he should have hired those 50 year old sub engineers after all.
Plus video of the front or rear titanium "bell" cap:
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1674192497470328837
For reference:
Ok, I saw additional pics: you are right it looks like the rear portion on the opposite side of the viewport imploded and that kicked out the viewport.
It’s hard to imagine an implosion of that magnitude leaving so many large pieces, including the wires, intact.
Is it usual to use epoxy in submersibles?
I don’t think it would be, and in the video clip I saw, epoxy was the only thing holding the nose assembly to the carbon fiber hull.
What’s with all the tarps covering things up? They wouldn’t be trying to cover something up, would they?
I saw a clip of that and couldn’t believe it. The damn thing was glued together.
If anyone had asked Stockton Rush about it he probably would have said the glue was “space age”, like he said about the carbon fiber.
Wasn’t the 1960s, the “Space Age”?
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"It’s hard to imagine an implosion of that magnitude leaving so many large pieces, including the wires, intact."
The tail section was mounted to the structural support system - not mounted directly to the pressure hull assembly itself. Some cables ran from the tail section to the pressure hull where, for some of the cables, there appeared to be a bulkhead-type fitting situated at the top (12 o'clock position #) of the pressure hull near the front titanium ring. There, cables passed through the hull. Cables also ran to various external (outside the pressure hull) components of the submersible.
(# One of the photos in the news, of Stockton Rush sitting inside the pressure hull, showed a cable run at the 12 o'clock position, described. Yet, I remain uncertain about, exactly where all the cables entered/exited the pressure hull.)
In the photo (reply 50) that reveals the starboard tail section view and components, there are a few WHITE rectangular shapes that are not deformed.
"Is it usual to use epoxy in submersibles?"
There are many types of epoxy for marine applications. A lot of Research & Development goes into testing and nudging epoxy compounds toward a finished product that works within a range of parameters, including pressure. Some applications, are for encapsulating electronics; and such an application is probably the case for some of the components within one or more of the aforementioned WHITE rectangular shapes that you see in the revealing, starboard view of the tail section.
My guess: Somebody wanted to make an effort to mask possible sudden appearances of human remains.
Re the WHITE rectangular shapes - probably containing electronics. Epoxy used in order to encapsulate the electronics that need protection, and then the rectangular box shape is filled with an oil . . . and thusly, is resistant to pressures at depth.
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