Posted on 09/17/2024 9:09:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
Watery Grave
During a public Coast Guard hearing on Monday, grim new details of the Titan submersible disaster came to light.
It's been 15 months since the tiny vessel descended to visit the Titanic shipwreck 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. But somewhere along its journey, the Titan submersible abruptly imploded, killing all five people on board.
Well over a year later, the US Coast Guard revealed the first image of the wreck in the form of a screenshot of a video recorded by a remotely operated deep-sea drone.
The vehicle spotted the Titan's tail cone and other related debris on June 22, four days after it disappeared and a day before the US Coast Guard officially declared the submersible had been lost.
The image is an eerie reminder of the danger the crew was in, at least in part as the result of former OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush repeatedly ignoring safety concerns and using legal threats to silence his critics over the years.
Rush was one of the passengers, ironically, who perished when the submersible imploded.
Limited Shell Life
The hearing was the first time we've heard from officials about what exactly went wrong since the disaster, as the New York Times reports. The US Coast Guard discovered a shocking number of problems, including 70 equipment-related issues in 2021 and 48 additional ones in 2022.
Less than a month before it imploded, the Titan was found "partially sunk" days after being set off as part of a test. Days before its fatal accident, passengers on a separate mission were slammed against its wall as it resurfaced.
Experts have since pointed out several design flaws, some of which may have been implemented by OceanGate as cost-cutting measures, including its unusual pill-like shape, foregoing the industry standard sphere shape.
Rush also once bragged about using expired carbon fiber, which was bought from troubled aerospace contractor Boeing. Experts have since lambasted the material as a poor choice for a deep sea vessel, because carbon fiber weakens over time.
We still don't exactly know what caused the submersible's hull to implode. But Monday's hearing was only the start of two weeks of public proceedings, suggesting we're likely to find out — and potentially see — a lot more grisly details.
Rush also once bragged about using expired carbon fiber, which was bought from troubled aerospace contractor Boeing. ....................
You’d think that would be sufficient to contain ~1 atmosphere of pressure, pushing outward, against a vacuum. A freaking ocean sitting on top of you, pushing inward? Not so much.
Reminds me of Green Acres' Mr. Haney.
> Rush also once bragged about using expired carbon fiber… <
He also bragged about hiring a diverse group of young people to work on his submersible team. Older, experienced white folks were not welcome because they were not “inspirational” enough.
DEI strikes again.
Older experienced white males warned about the safety problems and some were fired, and others said they wouldn’t set foot in the vessel again.
i’m sorry, you gotta be a real andrenaline junkie to do stupid #$@% like this. Just asking for trouble.
Does not look as if it imploded. Was supposed to crush it inwardly.
Yeah...we were told the crew was liquefied, and dead before they knew what hit them. I suppose that once pressure equalized inside/outside, the vessel would be spared additional damage. Flesh and blood, probably not so much.
I think that’s a fairing that wasn’t pressurized.
I suppose “diversity” in death is just another avenue the tyrants will seek. Since those that perished deep below the surface are now part of an extreme minority, the social engineering wackos will be sorely pressed to establish the “death equity.”
No 50 years-old white guy was responsible for this DEI millennial clusterf*** of a sub. Glad the drippy founder got his just desserts.
And we are spending millions of dollars on investigating this, why? Everyone knows why it failed.
Front titanium structure was blown off including the tail
Makes me think the failure was on one of the two ends and then it blew the center structure apart.
In about 0.1 seconds
And never go to the ocean 🌊 in anything named “Titan_____” 🤔🤔🤔
OceanGate CEO - Stockton Rush, aged 61
OceanGate's chief engineer - Tony Nissen
“Does not look as if it imploded. “
the part shown wasn’t the pressure vessel, but a cosmetic shell covering ...
The weakest point(s) would have imploded first immediately crushing those inside, then equalizing the pressure differential and the sub’s rear cone fell to the seafloor.
Mercifully, death would have been within a millisecond for the passengers..................
The only reason these guys are dead is because they had the money that put them there in the first place. None of the rest of us could afford to be that stupid.
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