Posted on 06/23/2023 5:28:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
“these guys got squished down to atoms in a matter of microseconds”.
We need to spend a few trillion dollars to recover those atoms, just to be sure....
;-)
Yep, 3 days of high level meetings to discuss the ramifications of national security, political ramifications i.e. can they divert attention from Hunter, etc.
“The hull should have been inspected carefully after each dive for signs of de-lamination. The entire hull should probably been x-rayed or at minimum been ultrasonically scanned.”
Absolutely. And I’ll wager none of that ever happened.
I saw a video clip where the CEO proudly stated he had purchased the interior lighting from Camper World.......if hed do that, what else was of substandard quality?
Sketchy doesn’t begin to describe this whole mess.
Doing ‘safety’ on the cheap will bite you in the a$$ every time..................
“We heard repeatedly the search area was twice the size the state of Connecticut. Why was that?”
My guess is that one of the big variables is ocean currents. If the sub lost power it might have been taken in any direction, and as time passed, the area got larger and larger.
Heard that....cutting corners and circumventing required processes and procedures will get people killed.....and sadly I suspect this is a perfect example.
The implosion of this carbon-fiber vessel would not produce anywhere near the same kind of sound that an almost 300-foot long steel submarine would produce. It's a bottle rocket compared to a Saturn V. I would not say the Ocean Gate vessel has much of a "known" acoustic signature, either. It's likely the SOSUS arrays detected something like an "anomaly consistent with an implosion" in the vicinity, but the ocean is big, and you can't go hunting down every little noise anomaly you might detect. It's possible the Navy didn't even know this expedition was going down.
I despise Biden and what he has done, but assuming this is some cover up for Biden when there is legitimate coverup evidence to be focused on is silly.
There are conspiracies out there, but everything is not a conspiracy.
Yes speculating on Biden’s motives. I am sure in my opinion that Biden knew, the US Navy knew very early into this which means Biden knew. Take that for what it is worth.
As for the motive, given all I have seen from his regime I see it as no stretch at all to presume he used it as a convenient way to distract from his son’s new cycle.
It is not as far-fetched as you seem to present it as.
Not that important now but it makes one wonder what the Canadian military surveillance aircraft picked up that was supposedly a tapping every half hour....
I agree.
A better design (and much more costly) would have been a flanged tube that was then wrapped with carbon fiber mesh.
The flanges would need to be fitted with double o-rings
Ideally the o-rings would have had a tap between them with a pressure sensor to detect leakage from the outside o-ring.
One of the issues with the glued fitting is that it is a single failure joint with no indication of impending failure. When it goes there is no warning.
With the depth this was intended to go to, a triple o-ring flange may be warranted.
But what we are talking about here is very costly. These people were intent on doing exploring on the cheap.
They paid with there lives. Not so cheap I would say.
True, but why didn’t they check the last known location of the sub before expanding the search? 1600 feet from the Titanic is where the debris was found. That area should have been searched first.
Triple O-ring, flange with a twist lock and a dozen stud bolts.......................
These two things we discussed are only the biggest failures of this diving vessel.
Also from what I have read is a complete lack of safety equipment and basic fail safe design.
I believe his decision not to hire 50 something expert white guys has less to do with his desire to hire inspiring young men but his desire not to deal with those who would want to build a more expensive but safer vessel.
He didn’t want people around that would tell him how wrong he is and how dangerous his submarine was.
I have worked with a lot of US Navy submariners my entire working life. I am not an expert by any means but I am aware of the basics.
I don’t think anyone I know would go down in that thing.
It was a patchwork design just waiting for a disaster...............
This guy reminds me of the Nuclear Boy Scout.
He knew what he wanted to do and was determined to do it regardless of what it took to do it and if anyone else was hurt.
But this guy was an adult and should have known better.
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/david-hahn-the-nuclear-boy-scout
The Gameboy controller is a horse of a different color!
Yeah, I think water could just pop that joint apart.
I don’t know. They were hoping to find an intact vessel, not a debris field. The intact vessel is a race against time, sorting out a debris field mixed in with the Titanic’s mess can wait.
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