I do too. I question a catastrophic hull failure. Titan’s hull was made of a combination of carbon fiber and titanium. Which nautical engineers advise against, yet the CEO championed it a “innovative”.
Eventually I guess we’ll find out.
I th9ink here, ‘Innovative’ = remarkably cheaper and conducive to faster cost recovery and profit margins.
Carbon fiber has a habit of creating tiny stress fractures that you cannot see.....................
utterly insane design: GLUING titanium end rings onto a 5” thick carbon fiber tube to act as attachment points for the titanium end domes ... carbon fiber, glue, and titanium: utterly dissimilar materials with massively different deformation behavior at their junctions when under extreme pressure ...
REAL engineers would have started with computer simulations of the stresses at those junctions with those materials, and then, assuming simulations showed it might work, would have proceeded to pressure test an actual vessel at its maximum depth with dozens of attached telemetric stress gauges ... assuming THAT testing didn’t fail, then they would have proceeded to cycle a vessel between maximum pressure depth and atmospheric pressure until the vessel failed (or not) ... and no doubt, Stockton Rush did none of the above standard materials engineering and testing ...
Stockton proudly hired only neophyte DEI children for his engineers, instead of experienced submarine engineers, eschewing experienced sub engineers as fuddy duddy “old white men” ... after all, he said, fuddy duddys engineers wouldn’t “appreciate” (approve) of his “revolutionary designs” [where have we heard that before? oh yeah, from Elizabeth Holmes, who just started an eleven year Federal prison sentence related to her “revolutionary” medical testing scam ... ]
Stockton Rush rushed to join the ranks of true revolutionaries, Musk and Bezos ... instead, Stockton Rush joined the Elizabeth Holmes sociopath category: he killed customers with a bogus submarine, while she killed customers with bogus medical tests ...