[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

durrr imagine your a nut and aaaah the ocean is a nut cracker

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

To paraphrase General George Pickett*, I think 6 kilo-psi might have has something to do with it.

*When asked, as he often was, about the failure of his eponymous charge, he would reply, “I think the Yankees might have had something to do with it.”

[Ann Archy]

The Navy KNEW on Sunday that it had IMPLODED...they HEARD it, therefore Biden KNEW it and yet they kept up the facade they might still be alive so that the Hunter story was suppressed!

[Iron Munro]

“We don’t need no stinkin’ old white men engineers!”

[SMARTY]

“...Cameron, who is considered an expert at diving and submersibles...”

PALEEEEASE!!!! Another ‘expert’? Stop with the ‘expert’ BS, already!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can’t think of a sadder and more depressing place to go to die.

[sit-rep]

6100 psi at 12,000 feet of water...

[Chad C. Mulligan]

“No strength in compression”. My retired-engineer alarms went off the moment I read that this vehicle was made that way. Even a freshman proto-engineer knows this, before he’s taken his first Strength of Materials course. What was that guy thinking? Compression strength of carbon composites comes entirely from the matrix resin, which frankly isn’t even close to that of steel.

[jmaroneps37]

Now we are hearing that the Navy knew the sub had imploded on SUNDAY but started this charade to give the Democrat/communist controlled media a bright shinny object to distract from the impending collapse of Crime Boss Joey The Sniff’s criminal empire.
These are low life disgusting swine that must never be allowed to rule our lives again.

[Red Badger]

Bad design, James...................

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Cameron, who is considered an expert at diving and submersibles...”

In much the same way that Alex Baldwin is an ‘expert’ on firearms?

*SNORT*

[BobL]

““As a submersible designer myself, I designed and built a sub to go to the deepest place in the ocean – three times deeper than Titanic,”

IMPRESSIVE - I figured he was just another Leftist Hollywood type.

[Caipirabob]

It's the amalgamation of so many terrifying nightmares that's made this story so compelling.

We can be grateful for some comfort in that out of all alternatives, their passing was likely instantaneous.

Truly horrific altogether, though.

They went to a graveyard and they never left.

The worst horror realized; they have become part of "The Tour".

Prayers out to all touched by this.

[bk1000]

Was this the maiden voyage of this craft? Had it even been tested at all?

[GOP_Party_Animal]

“As a submersible designer myself, I designed and built a sub to go to the deepest place in the ocean – three times deeper than Titanic,” [Cameron] said.

Bullschiff. What a self-aggrandizing liar this guy is. What he means to say is he's hired actual engineers to design and build submersibles. And one of his engineers told him what the rest of us engineers know: CF is a tool used for tension, not compression.

[IamConservative]

Implosions are extremely violent. Navy listening for submarine activity would have picked up the explosion. About 1 millisecond imploding and then it would blow like the fuel in a diesel engine with over 320 atmospheres of cylinder pressure. Human flesh and bone would be ash. No safety or distress signal could survive the “deployment.”

[linMcHlp]

Each end of the Carbon Fibre and Epoxy Composite Cylinder Pressure Hull Part, has epoxy'd to it, a titanium ring. To see that ring-to-hull assembly work take place, go to 4:05 / 20:44 of the video, 'The Titan Tragedy'.

A wide recess in the external circumference of the titanium ring design, is where a steel band that is a part of the external TITAN Cyclops 2 support structure, is wrapped around - 2 such bands, 1 front, and 1 rear, attaching the TITAN Cyclops 2 hull assembly to the support structure:

The titanium front end "bell" cap "hatch" part and the rear end "bell" cap part are bolted to their respective mating flanges of the aforementioned titanium rings. At 1:05 / 14:18 in video 'Missing Sub' . . ., you can see a port side view of an OceanGate Cyclops [1 or 2, I am uncertain], with the front "hatch" opened, and Stockton Rush sitting at the opening.

Looking at the opened "hatch" flange surface area, there appears to be a ring of some type, concentric with the flange circumference, that is probably a seal. No seal is apparent in the corresponding forward-facing flange surface of the titanium ring. The "hatch" flange and its mate, the titanium ring flange, are hinged together at the 9 o'clock position.

David Pogue, at 2:55 / 6:16 in video 'Safety is relative' says that there are 18 bolts that secure that "hatch," but only 17 bolts are used - the top-most bolt position at 12 o'clock, is apparently not used ("way up high, and they say there is really no mathematical difference"). [The bolt heads are 6-point, not 12-point in the images and videos that I have seen.]

The front end "bell" or cap part is unique in design - in contrast to the rear end "bell" or cap, in that, the front "bell" includes the viewing portal. And, during manufacturing of the titanium front end "bell" cap, some stress and potential for fatigue is introduced in forming the neck that you see in the image, that presents the base for attaching the viewing port assembly.

IMHO, the front "hatch" hinge, plus the missing 18th bolt at 12 o'clock, plus the stressed-neck of the "bell" adjacent to the viewing port, will all affect how the deep water pressure works to distort the "bell" shape of the front hatch. Distortion will affect the ability of the plane of the mated flanges to remain perpendicular to the central axis of the hull. That disruption can affect the integrity of the titanium ring and Carbon Fibre hull cylinder assembly.

[Cheesehead in Texas]

Cameron, who is considered an expert at diving and submersibles . . .

LOL

[bobbo666]

Oh, piss off. Expert? BS! We all know both of them could have survived on that door.

[Organic Panic]

As I posted in previous threads. Carbon fiber is not good for compression loads. Try pushing one end of a rope from the other end and you get an idea.

But at least no old white men designed it.....