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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It appears that it was the very model of a modern woke company, according to the CEO, who is now lost at sea and unavailable for comment.
Agreed. May God rest their souls. If your/my assumptions are correct, they didn’t feel a thing.
Game controller batteries died, and there were no spares on board?
This is going to get ugly.
My money is on the carbon fiber hull shattering into a million shards. If anything is ever found, it’ll probably be twisted and bent titanium scraps
I’m claustrophobic out in the back yard and wouldn’t even peek inside that bloody death capsule. To think they willingly paid 250 G’s to essentially be buried alive.
I don’t understand the mentality that looks at that thing and says, “yeah, that looks like a good thing to try..”
But that’s just me.
Funded by Blackrock?
Maybe it’ll be located and then its wreckage can be used as another tourist attraction for ultra-rich dilettantes to waste money on.
I read that “a” pinger stopped after contact was lost about 1.5 hours into dive.
An Airline type pinger works for 30 days in the ocean. Even deep water.
So, it was probably not an Airline Style Pinger.
Or, they should have activated it before the dive, since it was supposed to
be a short trip. And not be dependent on the Sub imploding before it was activated. It would have greatly helped in finding the Sub.
Comforting to see the company’s president stand behind the safety of his vessel.
4,500 pounds per inch² at that depth.
I don’t know if I can compare him to Bruce Ismay.
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I was going by the Titanic’s wreck depth. The company says the thing should be good to 4000m, which is more like 5900 psi. I’m guessing you’re going by 3000m?
I would contend the difference is rather academic to occupants of that submersible.
It’s basically an egg shell at those depths.
Unfortunate your ignorance on this subject.
“Airplane style pinger” Dumb. Do you mean a locater beacon ?
Do you have a half wit that even if the ‘rescurers’ knew down to the inch, ain’t gonna happen ?
The static water pressure at 12,400 feet is most likely different that the compressive load on the cylindrical hull. If the cylindrical hull is 6 inches thick the compressive load might only be 1,000 or so psi. If the hull were only an inch thick, like a military sub, the compressive load might be 20K plus. Where the Titanic is the static water pressure would be upwards of 6,000 psi so a fiberglass hull, about 8 feet in diameter, would have to be helluva thick to to stand the compressive load. It’s only been six decades or so since we figgered this out with Trieste, which went down six miles, or so. You’d think these geniuses would have read their book?
As a side note one of the two Triestes is still at the maritime museum in Bremerton. Still looks like it could go at any time.
I have 18 Seasons of Air Disaster(TV Series That’s Very Poplar)
When planes go down in the Ocean, I have never heard the Pinger
referred to as a Beacon.
They always say Pinger.
Maybe Beacon is the formal name,
Most refer to it as the Pinger.
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