You are instantly crushed.
Posted on 06/20/2023 3:01:27 PM PDT by CedarDave
The hull of the Titan vessel "showed signs of cyclic fatigue," according to a January 2020 interview with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who is aboard the missing vessel. Rush told Geekwire that due to that stress, the hull rating was downgraded to a depth of 3,000 meters, 800 meters short of the Titanic's depth.
In a December 2019 slideshow that appears to have been presented to the Deep Submergence Science Committee of the University — National Oceanographic Laboratory System, OceanGate listed the depth capability of the Titan as 3,000 meters.
But in 2021, OceanGate announced that Titan, not another vessel, had completed a trip to the Titanic.
There had been no public update about Titan's depth rating since it was downgraded.
On the company's current webpage, however, the site uses the exact same language, but with a different 4,000 meter depth, which puts it beyond the depth of the Titanic: "Titan is a Cyclops-class manned submersible designed to take five people to depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep sea testing of hardware and software."
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From the USCG updates I’ve read the pinger stopped the same time their texts stopped. Implosion. And it’s probably buried in mud at the bottom.
111 years after Titanic met its fate.
Damn, that’s actually a scary video. I wouldn’t even get in that thing, let alone go deep down only to die.
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Yep. About an hour and 45 minutes after dive started.
I wonder how they were able to communicate at such depths.
To my knowledge Sub has no attached umbilical cord.
If the failure was a water leak then the sudden, high pressure rise, would have “dieseled” them. And that only takes about 300 psi. These guys were playing with up to 6,000 psi. so, yeah, they didn’t have long to think about it.
Incidentally, I watch that show too. I always hear “beacon”, but that may also be the times I’ve ctually seen reporting on timely current accidents (such as the never-found MH370).
Yep, mebbe Brit name for a locater beacon.
Regardless, they could have the location down to the inch and it wouldn’t matter.
keep watching TV to get your ‘knowledge’, HA!
Speaking of Trieste, I like its design solution for those pressures: build the sucker super-strong, weight be damned, then just compensate with a float filled with a buoyant (effectively non-compressible) liquid: gasoline.
Brilliantly simple.
Make your ballast out of iron pellets, and hold them in place with electromagnets. Power failure? The ballast drops, and up you go!
Brilliantly simple.
What a wonderful piece of engineering.
You are instantly crushed.
When they first found the wreck, they decided to keep it intact and not disturb all of the dead inside.
Obviously they violated that pledge.
Maybe they are getting punished for that.
I guess I will just have to it a beacon since you are such arrogant POS.
Shove your Titan.
Trieste had 5 in thick solid steel spherical hull.
Very small so only two persons could fit in.
Titanic is not that deep, but deep enough to ask for similar solutions.
When they found the wreck, they wanted to leave it as a gravesite. If they had taken ONE thing, they could have better protected it as a “salvage” site, and their property..
They tried to do the right thing, but it turned out to be a mistake.
I’d volunteer to turn the crank on the Hunley before I’d get in this thing.
I have a friend who says “The only chance they have is sound. If someone is alive they can bang on the metal hull and sound will travel miles”.
It sounds ludicrous to me, after all who would be around to detect it, even though I know they are looking for it the hull is supposed to be very thick and the area they are looking in is 900 miles.
But what else would show this is not feasible?
The hull isn’t metal, it’s carbon fiber. Would you crack it by banging? I don’t have a clue.
I believe you can’t salvage but observation is fine.
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