Posted on 06/22/2023 10:54:16 AM PDT by libh8er
Debris has been found in the search for the missing Titan submersible, reportedly including parts of its outside cover. Dive expert David Mearns told the BBC the president of the Explorers Club - which is connected to the diving and rescue community - says the debris includes "a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible". The US Coast Guard earlier confirmed a "debris field" had been found within the search area. It was located by a remote-controlled underwater search vehicle (ROV) near the wreck of the Titanic. A US Coast Guard news conference is scheduled for 1500 EST (1900 GMT) on Thursday afternoon. The Titan vessel went missing in a remote area of the North Atlantic on Sunday with a four-day oxygen supply for its crew of five.
Some experts have speculated that it could have suffered a catastrophic implosion as a result of a hull failure. The minivan-sized submersible was owned and operated by the private company OceanGate Expeditions. The firm's co-founder, Guillermo Söhnlein, told the BBC that he believes there may have been an "instantaneous implosion" of the craft. "If that's what happened, that's what would have happened four days ago," he said.
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“At least there were no 50 year old white men designing the thing...”
Damn straight! Who needs those old, highly experienced farts? They don’t inspire anybody. Why, they don’t even have pink hair, facial steel studs or sleeve tats. What do they know?
“Whaddayamean?”
The nasty remark by the sub company’s president has been all over the news this week. You missed it?
He was bragging about his young, “exciting” team and said 50 year old guys don’t inspire anybody (i.e., the guys with the years of experience needed to do a risky project properly).
Not to mention they cost more than rookie hires and their health costs keep rising. Even worse, they tend to be more conservative than the kids today and may have even voted for Trump.
Wait until you need medical care. The majority of the doctors are being imported from outside the US because of diversity. We’re gonna have doctors who know diddly squat or can’t distinguish a pimple from a tumor. …… thousands will die in the hands of these idiots! Our city is beginning to see more imported doctors who have Muslim last names.
...and your touch may insure that it won’t be around as long as it could have been.
Youtube has an enhanced video coverage of the Titanic; watch the thing on a huge TV screen in the dark, same thing and better than a 7 inch thick plexiglass viewing window inches across.
The (now deceased) CEO made a point of the fact that he would not hire "50-year-old white men". Sounds WOKE to me!
It’s strange how 6000 psi doesn’t care how diverse your workforce is, or how you steered clear of boring 50-year-old white guys. /s
I wonder if the carbon fiber hull experiment will be tried again?
Titanium is the normal material, which one is less expensive?
Almost a perfect metaphor wokeism - fatal implosion.
For the size and relative simplicity of this underwater craft, I can’t imagine the “debris field” is all that large. Compared to the actual HMS Titanic or even a military sub, this was tiny.
Sounds horrible to me.
LIVE Missing Titan Submersible “Debris found” Presser
https://rumble.com/v2vrna2-live-missing-titan-submersible-debris-found-presser.html
I think the only way to be sure would have been for the Navy to disclose what listening capabilities they have 700 miles off the East coast, and they probably didn’t want to do that.
That would be adiabatic compression (i.e., no heat transfer). Boyle’s Law...
P1V1/T1 = P2V2/T2
T2 = T1 * P2V2/P1V1
Pretty toasty if the thing imploded in on itself. But I doubt it would fail like that. It would be over so quickly it really doesn’t matter.
If they had a tiny leak, implosion would happen instantaneously. Imagine an egg with a thin shell under immense pressure, any leak would instantly weaken the shell around the leak and fracture the entire craft. I imagine that they bumped part of the Titanic and immediately imploded as the carbon fiber shell was compromised.
True that.
I’m pretty sure the Navy knew that there was an implosion explosion noise signature from the same time that the submersible lost contact with the mother ship and keeps that close to the vest.
Is that the definitive statement on the incident?!
The Abyss.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/
I expect a lot of interest. Testing to find:
- a Carbon Fibre weave
- epoxy’s
- seals and sealants
- titanium end cap manufacturing method(s)
- necessary backup systems
- necessary redundant systems
- worthy communications systems
all for the task.
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