And now the dome is the only thing left still intact.
Posted on 09/24/2024 4:36:37 AM PDT by xxqqzz
The tragedy that killed the Titan submersible crew in 2023 year may have been foreshadowed by a separate event years before its fatal dive.
The US Coast Guard has released a new image of the vehicle, showing how the dome fell off after a dive in 2021.
One of the private passengers on board during that dive described last week how several bolts holding the dome 'shot off like bullets' after the sub's nose hit the deck.
The release of the new image adds to a catalogue of issues reported with the Titan in the years up to an implosion that killed five people on board last July.
The US Coast Guard released a photo of the doomed Titan submersible from 2021. The picture shows the hull fell off as the vessel was lifted to the surface
The US Coast Guard released a photo of the doomed Titan submersible from 2021. The picture shows the hull fell off as the vessel was lifted to the surface
Fred Hagen, who boarded several Titan missions, described the 2021 incident at a hearing into the tragedy.
He said: 'The force of the platform hitting the deck... it basically sheared off several bolts and they shot off like bullets. And the titanium dome fell off.'
Renata Rojas volunteered to monitor the 2021 expedition from the surface and said everything on the submersible was 'working very smoothly' before it descended to the ocean's depths.
She described the moment the dome fell off the sub as it was pulled on to the main ship, and said: 'There was only, I think, two bolts or four bolts on the dome.
'It started dripping, falling off,' she added.
I went on a trip on the doomed Titan sub and knew it was a timebomb
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Scott Manley did a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxBtZmyPzVA
Other than that, things went rather well.
Why anyone would go into the deep in that tin can with that lunatic is beyond my comprehension!
Even if it was still around, it wouldn’t exactly be on my bucket list.
What a picture
Almost 12,387 feet down. Yikes.
And I guess that’s just the depth of the vehicle - that titanium ring is probably slightly deeper (not that it matters much)
Why anyone would go into the deep in that tin can with that lunatic is beyond my comprehension!
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There are a lot of people out there absolutely starved for attention and will do nearly anything to try to make themselves feel special, and some of them actually have money.
They will sit there inside of a tube, without shoes, among 10 other people, and they may as well be buried in a large tomb underground because, what’s the difference, and will take selfies to post to social media and say, “Look everyone! Isn’t it great?”
Interesting video. He seems to be saying the failure was where the front piece was glued on, not with the carbon fiber as everyone assumed.
The US, France, and Russia have military submersibles to reach that depth. They are spherical with a solid titanium shell and no viewing window. It is possible to make relatively safe submersibles for that depth, but not the tourist version Rush developed.
Unbelievable
True and sad.
That reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
For anybody interested, here is a link to the CG investigation web page.
https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/
Perhaps, but all due respect, I think that's not accurate.
You're overlooking the more important, fundamental aspect of human behavior to be subject to someone else's BS, particularly a person of money and power.
Case in point: Democrats under their perceived 'leaders'.
Stockton Rush was born into money and he wielded it like any other egomaniac, criminally taking 4 others with him because they believed him.
During the Coast Guard hearings on the tragedy, it was said,
“What this really comes down to is hubris and greed."Fitting. The irony is that the Titan sub represents the US, and Stockton Rush the powers that be steering us to an implosion, democrats happily boarding the doomed vessel to ride it to the bottom, much of the populace reluctant passengers akin to Shahzada Dawood.
It's a rather apt metaphor.
That’s hilarious!
3,774.1 meters
12,382.2178 feet down according to an Internet calculator
It must have been quite the implosion
(though I seen to recall it happened at roughly 11,300(?)
Oh, and hello from the future
Make that
12,382.2178 feet down (different calculator result 🤔)
Oh my goodness
I’m laughing and crying 😂😂😂
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