Under pressure - A live rant about carbon fiber submarines

Scott Manley ^ | 23 June 2023 | Scott Manley

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

What did the Carbon Fibre Sub say to the Titanium Sub?

I’m Crushed.

[Round Earther]

That’s the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
“Let me out!”

[Libloather]

“Is that a leak?”

[Fester Chugabrew]

I wonder if we will ever know how deep the Titan was when it imploded.

[Fester Chugabrew]

“Don’t t. . . !”

[griffin]

If you want to imagine what an implosion is like at 12,000 ft below sea level, stuff 5 hamsters in a Pepsi can and run it over at 60 miles an hour.

[Bonemaker]

“Did I hear a slight cracking sound?”

Last known words.

[HerrBlucher]

I think James Cameron said it was about 3,000 m down when they lost communications and tracking and at the same time there was a loud bang heard by the Navy.

[struggle]

Next time invite Soros and his kid

[Steely Tom]

More like stuff 5 hamsters in a Pepsi can and shoot a 105 mm Howitzer at it.

[MtnClimber]

Last known words:

This is great. I am glad we did this.

[logi_cal869]

Correction:

“D-”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

That’s what one guy was saying, that the carbon fiber would start making a cracking sound. Another said it was possible water started shooting inside but at an extremely high velocity. I would think that or both would have been the absolute worst knowing they chose poorly right before they became liquified but we will never know.

[tflabo]

Was doing some rough math calculations. Say an automobile tire is filled to 30 psi. If the Titanic ocean floor is stated correctly at 6000 psi it would be the equivalent pressure of 200 tires combined. Quite a blowout or blow in.

[Red6]

Give it a few years.

I suspect you’ll start hearing about “unexpected” airframe failures in aircraft.

I suspect it will happen eventually. Just when is the question?

And the beauty of composites like this is that they give you little to no prior warning unlike metal.

[bigbob]

I thought they were “testing is over-rated”...

I haven’t got a problem with him inviting others to test his nutty theories, he just took the wrong ones. We could work up a list of a few thousand pretty quickly.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I presume that’s MJ (MegaJoules), not mJ (milliJoules)

[BitWielder1]

Granite weights about 2.7 times the same volume of water.
Imagine a Granite Obelisk 2900 feet tall.
(The Washington Monument is 554 feet tall and it's hollow.)
That's how crushed they were.

Now for a more interesting question, how can we be sure that there was anyone on board?
Maybe these people wished to "disappear" for some reason.
They were all wealthy enough to charter from a more reputable firm.

[LeoTDB69]

“A “live” rant about carbon fiber submarines”

I’ll skip the pun out of good taste