Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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Figured to post this, but this guy has been following closely the hearings and just covering over what has been said recently

I have some ideas on what happened, but there are so many modes of failure of this hull that it is unacceptable it even did any kind of dives in the first place considering they threw it around like a toy and half-assed everything. Even the core design philopshy was misapplying Aeronautical understanding of carbon fibre to sub-nautical applications.
 
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TowinKarz said:
Sadly, they never envisioned the march of technology would put the wreck in range of what amounted to souvenier hunters.
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I think this kind of attitude is a bit extreme. People tour battlefields like Gettysburg where far more people have died all the time and nobody has a problem with it
 
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Dragged Into Sunlight said:
I think this kind of attitude is a bit extreme. People tour battlefields like Gettysburg where far more people have died all the time and nobody has a problem with it
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Sure, until you show up with a metal detector and shovel. Then they get all pissy about "muh respect for the dead" and all that. Buzzkills.
 
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This still makes me laugh. I'm not looking back through all the pages to find the last time it was posted.

pray for titan.jpg
 
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JustSomeDong said:
Sure, until you show up with a metal detector and shovel. Then they get all pissy about "muh respect for the dead" and all that. Buzzkills.
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You can actually buy minie balls recovered from the site in the gift shop. Or at least were able to at one point 30 years ago when my Aunt brought me one back from vacation.
 
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A metalurgical Engineer going through what is seen in some of the photos. Very good if dry analysis of what happened to that forward titanium ring. Where the inner titanium wall of the C cup that mated to the carbon fiber hull was completely sheared off, all at once by the force pushing inwards. Like an Iris closing around it and shearing it off with all force heading straight to the center. No tearing or longitudinal force. Also the impressions left by the carbon fiber in the surviving glue on the rear dome are themselves terrifying.
 
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RodgerDodger said:
A metalurgical Engineer going through what is seen in some of the photos. Very good if dry analysis of what happened to that forward titanium ring. Where the inner titanium wall of the C cup that mated to the carbon fiber hull was completely sheared off, all at once by the force pushing inwards. Like an Iris closing around it and shearing it off with all force heading straight to the center. No tearing or longitudinal force. Also the impressions left by the carbon fiber in the surviving glue on the rear dome are themselves terrifying.
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Absolutely fascinating.

As for human remains.... They were essentially turned into human jelly
 
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