Posted on 06/28/2023 8:12:22 AM PDT by Morgana
Debris from the Titan submersible that imploded on the bottom of the Atlantic as it tried to reach the wreckage of the Titanic has been hauled ashore.
The huge chunks of metal were unloaded from the Horizon Arctic ship at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada, this morning.
They were quickly covered in large tarpaulins before being lifted by cranes on to trucks that took them away for assessment.
It comes exactly ten days after the doomed Titan submersible vanished during a tourist trip run by OceanGate Expeditions.
Last Thursday it was revealed that the sub had suffered a 'catastrophic implosion' near the bottom of the ocean, killing all five on board.
The US Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the cause of the underwater implosion that destroyed Titan.
Safety fears were repeatedly raised by experts who said the vessel was not suitable for the immense depths it traveled to.
The Coast Guard said it had created a marine board of investigation (MBI), its highest level of probe.
'My primary goal is to prevent a similar occurrence by making the necessary recommendations to enhance the safety of the maritime domain worldwide,' said Jason Neubauer, the Coast Guard's chief investigator and leader of the probe.
'The MBI is already in its initial evidence-collection phase, including debris salvage operations at the incident site,' he added.
Neubauer said the US probe could also make recommendations on the possible pursuit of civil or criminal sanctions 'as necessary'.
Titan was reported missing last Sunday and the Coast Guard said Thursday that all five people aboard the submersible had died after the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion.
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From my understand 2030 was the date to cut off all future dives to the site. Perhaps they will hasten that date now.
Maybe there’s some ‘artifacts’ that can be auctioned off
Guarantee the Viewport manufacturer has a primary $1 mil. And $10 mil excess liability policy. Their defense is being probed now.
All reports talk about the five people on board. There was the owner and four paying customers but was there no crew aboard?
Owner and pilot were the crew, three passengers.
i wonder if the carbon-fiber tube fractured into a bazillion microscopic fragments ...
“’My primary goal is to prevent a similar occurrence by making the necessary recommendations to enhance the safety of the maritime domain worldwide,’ said Jason Neubauer,”
Oh come on. Nobody is going to do this again for a long long time.
.... a Viewport failure rather than an implosion
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Perhaps I’m splitting hairs but a viewport failure is still an implosion failure.
The sub was not adequately built to withstand the rigors of diving to that depth and could have failed at several points. To me it is senseless to bring up wreckage as what part failed first is irrelevant. The whole design was flawed. As for attempting to recover any remains …total folly.
The round flange that connected the titanium dome to the carbon fiber body was separated from the dome. That meant all the flange bolts popped. Total destruction in milliseconds.
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From my limited observation of this incident, methinks narcissism and his cousin hubris will get people killed.
5.56mm
Yep. Why bother? Are the families or estates of the billionaires who died paying for it?
It seems worthwhile to study the failure, for future engineers.
“The guy at the viewport is on the toilet”
The guy at the viewport is on the viewport seat.
“James Cameron said the submersible was only a few thousand feet down when it imploded.”
Speculation based on what?
A few rolls of duct tape, and she’ll be good to go.
The object is to keep this in the news. Every time there’s a Hunter Biden story they’ll discover something in the wreckage.
There was a large component that looks like a relatively intact section of the carbon fiber vessel section shrouded in white tarps. That combined with the fact that the removable front spherical dome was separated from the titanium ring flange that bonds to the vessel suggest that the carbon hull may not have imploded. Rather there was a failure of the door or the view port. It is unclear if the view port is still intact from the pics. If there was a failure of the door or view port the rapid ingress of high pressure water would have created a massive internal positive pressure spike inside the vessel and and created a shock wave traveling through the tube which would have rebounding off the back wall of the vessel. Either the rapid increase in a positive internal pressure spike or the shock wave (or the combination of both)failed the adhesive bonded titanium ring joint and failed the bolts holding the spherical front door closure to the bonded titanium locking ring.
If this is the case, the vessel did not actually implode. Instead, perhaps the titanium door and the titanium bonding ring were blown off by the dynamics of the ingress of high pressure water into the vessel caused the adhesive bond on the titanium ring to composite cylinder to fail
It is clear the viewport failed. Was it it the cause of the implosion or did it fail because of the implosion? It might be a couple of years before before a determination is made..
#20 That is another design flaw!!
They could have placed it in back but for unknown reason placed it right next to the viewing port!!!
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