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Titanic tourist sub goes missing

The Titanic is a debris field...
True, but I am guessing it should be easy to tell what's been down there for many decades vs something that just went down a few days ago. These things have video capability so I am guessing people are viewing and trying to make a determination or maybe already have and trying to notify families first.
 
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It was a joke.

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True, but I am guessing it should be easy to tell what's been down there for many decades vs something that just went down a few days ago. These things have video capability so I am guessing people are viewing and trying to make a determination or maybe already have and trying to notify families first.

That very well could be. This is a small craft so there can't be that much debris. They may be notifying families first.
 
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So a billionaire’s able to fork over $250k for this. Would that be like most of us paying a few bucks to let our kids ride the merry-go-round at the county fair?
 
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My wife sent me a screen shot of something claiming that the landing frame and rear cover are among the debris.
 
IDK I wouldn't be surprised if they called it off tomorrow. At this point they are probably looking at a body recovery mission and that's a big IF.

I would argue that if we are going to keep sending people down at these depths we should practice ways of finding and recovering them. Send an unmanned one down controlled by remote control. Bottom it out equipped with any kind of equipment that might make it as easy as possible to find in that environment. Find it and try out our recovery ideas on it.

If it doesn't work than just use the remote control feature to surface it so you can try again without sacrificing the sub.
If an implosion was the actual cause of death, none of those families are going to want to see those bodies anyway. Best to leave them at the bottom as their final resting place.
 


There's no "rule" you don't use "carbon fiber and titanium".
There's just "engineering guidance".

And that guidance is that CF structures can be super super strong, until they aren't.

And if you do not have a robust structural testing program in place to identify microcracks developing in your fibers, which can completely destroy the structural integrity of the system, that system will catastrophically fail w/o any warning.
 
If it lost pressure or whatever, and "imploded"- whatever they technical term is- how small would the thing implode to? Are we talking like a crushed soda can?
That’s what I’m wondering….I feel like 6,000 PSI wouldn’t leave much left? Unless it somehow equalizes before it goes “poof”.

Any science experts out there?
 
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There's no "rule" you don't use "carbon fiber and titanium".
There's just "engineering guidance".

And that guidance is that CF structures can be super super strong, until they aren't.

And if you do not have a robust structural testing program in place to identify microcracks developing in your fibers, which can completely destroy the structural integrity of the system, that system will catastrophically fail w/o any warning.

At least this guy payed the ultimate price for his hubris and corner cutting.

So many others don't. They let other people pay the ultimate price for their corner cutting.
 
That’s what I’m wondering….I feel like 6,000 PSI wouldn’t leave much left? Unless it somehow equalizes before it goes “poof”.

Any science experts out there?
Absolutely not a scientist, but I think I read (probably in this thread) that you wouldn't look much different externally, as most of our body is water, but your lungs and anything with air in it would be compressed.
 
At least this guy payed the ultimate price for his hubris and corner cutting.

So many others don't. They let other people pay the ultimate price for their corner cutting.
That's the tendency from the playbook in the part of corporate America that isn't being raided by private equity. Cut costs by cutting staffing by cutting corners.
 
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It is good these people died.

Three reasons:

1) Really rich people.
2) They did a poor job engineering the vessel.
3) People were trying to make money on their crappy engineering.

Add it all up: die die die
 
At least this guy payed the ultimate price for his hubris and corner cutting.

So many others don't. They let other people pay the ultimate price for their corner cutting.
I’ve been wondering how often he was the driver because it seems it wasn’t always him. That audio about the leaky valve kind of makes me think he was the driver willing to risk it after whatever repair they did.
 
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