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I did not expect this thing to actually be hauled to shore. Kind of thought they were just going to leave it. How much did it cost to pull that thing up?
Hopefully, examination of the wreckage will yield valuable information about the cause of the failure and help future designs of deep-sea submersibles.
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Sure we do but there’s always something to be learned from a failure. This sub was unique in it’s design and while that design ultimately failed, the knowledge gained from the failure could potentially lead to an improved design that maintains some of the benefits such as low cost and high occupancy.
Also when carbon fibre is used on other applications such as in planes and such. There is always something to be learned about failure modes which can be used to make future applications safer.
For instance, in this case where exactly did the failure point happen? Was it at at the bonding area, one of the end caps, or in the middle of the tube, etc.
I mean we have money for that. Not just for social services, cause that will set the wrong incentive /s
Wow I didn’t know they were going to recover it at all. Pretty cool. Can’t wait to read about how shitty the design was.
I mean, it’s well known by this point. But a “seconds from disaster” version of it would be interesting to watch as disaster porn.
Both titanium support rings were recovered intact. These are what bonded the carbon fiber hull to the titanium ends. There isn’t any evidence of carbon fiber still attached in the photos/ videos of the debris.
Edit: more photos
So the front AND the back fell off? Is that normal?
Doesn’t matter, it happened outside of the environment.
Interesting - I had imagined it being imploded into bits like the simulations on the news show.
I believe this is the outer portion. The carbon fiber shell imploded and is probably not recoverable.
I’m certainly no expert but I understand submarines have an inner and outer hull. The inner hull has to withstand the pressure of the deep but the outer hull does not. The inner hull would be crushed into bits but the outer hull and any equipment in-between would likely be ripped into large chunks as such a violent event occurs inside of it.
Subs have dual hulls so they can fill the void between them with water to sink, or air to float, but they don’t dive anywhere near as deep. Most regular naval subs operate above 800 meters. They only have to be below the surface of the water for stealth, not at the bottom of the ocean.
This craft was a single hull design as far as I’m aware, designed with a rigid hull to try and counteract the pressure at the bottom.
The outer shell didn’t hold pressure and was there to cover wires/ equipment exposed outside the pressure vessel.
like the simulations on the news show
Why would you put any faith in a simulation by an organization that has no knowledge of the domain?
I wonder if they recovered the Xbox controller?
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Have you priced one of those Pro Controllers?
Is it ironic when the billionaires who live by cutting costs get stung by cost cutting?
Can we share Bezos in the next batch of billionaires?
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