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News Titanic Tours Submersible missing in atlantic ocean

Pliny Pete said:
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No doubt, And i bet there would have been a bigger attempt to rescue the footage....I mean people....
 
emefer said:
I don’t know that that transcript is real.
I’ll wait.
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Seems accurate enough. Unfortunately, it would be very easy to fake(I mean, I could fake it with just base knowledge and feigning "professional" talk), but it's about what I'd expect from the legit source. Highly doubt the transcript was "Listening to awesome song mix. Quit interrupting. Wait, what was that noi-------....."
 
HereticBD said:
Seems accurate enough. Unfortunately, it would be very easy to fake(I mean, I could fake it with just base knowledge and feigning "professional" talk), but it's about what I'd expect from the legit source. Highly doubt the transcript was "Listening to awesome song mix. Quit interrupting. Wait, what was that noi-------....."
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Verified footage of Stockton Rush in the submersible.

 
jimbob27 said:
When the implosion happened it would have been instantaneous, but James Cameron said in an interview ages ago that from within the community he'd heard they dropped ballast and were attempting to ascend when they lost comms.

Here's a really good explanation of many of the known engineering flaws that went into the design and construction of the Titan. The thing was an absolute lemon.

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That was a pretty informative video. It seems like Stockton should have hired this guy on to consult
 
emefer said:
Exactly how I thought it happened and I’m no engineer.
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Me neither. I knew about some of the rules Stockton broke just from my knowledge of bicycle wheel construction. You don't glue metal and carbon together in applications where there will be heat (or pressure) changes because they expand at different rates, and become unstuck. It doesn't matter how good your glue is, the expansion happens at an atomic level and it's basically unstoppable.

If you're doing an extremely critical glue joint, you're going to want to use a vacuum bag to suck all the bubbles out of the epoxy. They didn't do this. You also want to see some excess glue squeeze out. They eyeballed the amount of glue required, and zero squeezed out, so unless they got the amount exactly right... we know they had air-bubbles in there. That's could have been what the gun-shot sounds were that they heard during previous dives. High pressure water pushing it's way through a series of air cavities in the bond.
 
The problem was using a PlayStation controller, left them wide open to a raging demon.

 
That transcript is something. Imagining the experience, I would be absolutely terrified. Zero chance of me going on a startups space or deep sea mission now!

IDGETKTFO said:
I can't imagine how crazy this incident would have been if Josh Gates was onboard filming this for Expedition Unknown when it imploded.
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It's quite possible someone was filming it but with the carbon fiber implosion pretty much mincing everything inside I doubt there will be any record found. Fuck me if there is though that will be required viewing!

jimbob27 said:
Me neither. I knew about some of the rules Stockton broke just from my knowledge of bicycle wheel construction. You don't glue metal and carbon together in applications where there will be heat (or pressure) changes because they expand at different rates, and become unstuck. It doesn't matter how good your glue is, the expansion happens at an atomic level and it's basically unstoppable.

If you're doing an extremely critical glue joint, you're going to want to use a vacuum bag to suck all the bubbles out of the epoxy. They didn't do this. You also want to see some excess glue squeeze out. They eyeballed the amount of glue required, and zero squeezed out, so unless they got the amount exactly right... we know they had air-bubbles in there. That's could have been what the gun-shot sounds were that they heard during previous dives. High pressure water pushing it's way through a series of air cavities in the bond.
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I agree your hypothesis seems credible. Water ingress seems to be the thing, causing electrical failures and increase in weight.

It's fucking mad how many red flags there are looking back on it. Just the closing of the hatch bolts without the use of a torsion wrench to determine exactly how tight the nuts were is insane.

I saw the lack of excess glue and thought the same thing.

Fundamentally the marriage of titanium and carbon fiber seems a flawed endeavour, you want a uniform material providing the structure with that amount of pressure change.
 
I did a quick calculation of the amount of energy that would have been released during an implosion... roughly equivalent to 230 sticks of dynamite going off in a very small space.

They aint going to find much of those people.
 
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