Posted on 08/05/2025 8:06:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
As I suspected, the the CG was going to torch Oceangate’s operations and government agencies that ignored whistleblower complaints their operations.
The main problem with the design was that it used dis -similar materials, carbon, fiber, and titanium, and it had a cylindrical shape rather than spherical. The carbon fiber could not handle the repeated cycles of high pressure, it lasted a few times down to the Titanic and then it just gave out right at the contact point with the titanium ends.
Duh.
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Shark attacks are preventable, too.
The egotistical bastid that funded all this ignored the advice and decades of design experience in order to skipper that doomed boat. Just like the Arsehole who put five aging broads in a capsule and shot them into space as a publicity stunt.
Egos surrounded by yes-men, none brave enough to stand on the criticism. Any non-insane boss will reconsider if you do it respectfully and in private. If you are unwilling to do that you are a coward and your boss should fire you.
the older white men who had a lifetime of experience kept saying, NO, NO, NO and were either fired or quit ... the DEI hires were ignorant youngsters who said YES, YES, YES simply to keep their paycheck ...
actually, the carbon fiber tube delaminiated internally from repeated pressure changes and thereby lost structural integrity, and stockton rush knew that and kept using it anyway ... that’s all explained in the documentary ““Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster”” and the final Coast Guard report ...
actullty, there were MANY who were brave enough to point out the problems and say “NO”, but they were all either fired or quit ...
In scale model tests: dome failures.1) Get there -itis
2) Ignore communications problems - and (1)
3) Deformation of acrylic portal, titanium dome, titanium dome flange, titanium ring-to-hull-cylinder - where hull cylinder most fragile/sensitive to slightest deformation
4) Failure to use new assembly bolts - re (3)
5) Only 18 bolts
Also note that the sub was left OUTSIDE DURING A CANADIAN WINTER.....................
“... the whole Nintendo game controller thing would have been a deal breaker for me.”
That game controller was prolly the most competent piece of equipment on that vessel. Computer games require far more inputs than would be needed on a submersible.
That’s about 10X the pressure required to initiate an ignition in a diesel engine.
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