Had it been a lot shallower there may have been remains after all archeologists find remains that are thousands of years old. The pressure at that depth will have liquidised any remains that will have dissipated or being eaten by now.
I’m sure it was up to the task. Maybe. I keep thinking of the expense of passenger airliner cockpit controls. And the fact they’ll be regularly tested and calibrated.
And the air in the submersible being compressed in a few milliseconds would mean the temperature was, briefly, a few thousand Celsius.Had it been a lot shallower there may have been remains after all archeologists find remains that are thousands of years old. The pressure at that depth will have liquidised any remains that will have dissipated or being eaten by now.
The pressure at that depth only has such a crushing effect if you are trying to maintain a pressure difference between the outside and the inside. The sub would have had about 400 atmospheres outside versus 1 atmosphere inside. For sinking ships or bodies, the pressures would have long equalized inside and out, so no explosive effects from pressure at those depths, but the remains will have decomposed a long time ago.Had it been a lot shallower there may have been remains after all archeologists find remains that are thousands of years old. The pressure at that depth will have liquidised any remains that will have dissipated or being eaten by now.
Know what you mean, but those visiting the Somme usually visit the actual war graves, the places you are supposed to visit. Fine margins, but don't go poking around where the bodies are. This feels far more yukky.
So, you're saying it failed because it was tired of his bullshit?This BBC article is interesting:
Titanic sub firm: A maverick, rule-breaking founder and a tragic end
Stockton Rush wanted to be known as an innovator. It didn't seem to matter how he did it.www.bbc.co.uk
So it appears the CEO piloted the sub on every journey it made, using a game controller. To me that says the guy had issues with delegation and control. Hope the keyman insurance will pay out.
But there's some interesting snippets about the approach to engineering design - the non-standard design, the use of non-standard materials but at the same time the use of off the shelf components in unintended ways.
To me this all speaks of an attitude 'you can't tell me what to do' and a desire to get a working design no matter the cost or safety.
If the hull imploded but not on the first trip this thing every did, it suggests some kind of fatigue failure.
Thinking myself, if my at a remove relative had gone down with that ship, no I wouldn't like the idea of non scientists over privileged "explorers" down there gawping. Remains or not. It's a resting place and a place of severe trauma. But then I guess there's all sorts of expansive arguments to be made for and against. But for me, no, I wouldn't like it.
Absolutely and if I had relatives on the Titanic I'd object even more to it being an over privileged wide boy who had made a business out of their grave (and then yet more over privileged people hurling £250,000 around to go and gawp). And then you add in the refugee crisis and all the horrors of this world, at home and abroad, and these people think it's fine to flaunt their wealth in this way. But then it's also a cautionary tale, there's a reason for regulation and not cutting corners. Neoliberalism, 'innovation' and going against solid engineering principles only take you so far. In this case to the bottom of the sea.
Couldn't agree more. It's another modern day grotesque.
That's not what happened to the pig in a diving suit video by myth busters.
It was lowered in a pressure suit, and the pressure was then released at depth. Had it just been a dead pig that fell into the water and to the bottom, it wouldn’t explode because there isn’t a differential working against it.
Didn't look like a pressure suit to me.
This reminded me of the body dilution scenario,
Would you draw the line at a toe in a pool, or a foot?
Didn't look like a pressure suit to me.
I never thought it looked all that opulent. The flooring looks like lino in photographs, and the swimming pool appeared positively claustrophobic. Apparently there was a Tudor theme in parts of the ship, which never bodes well on grounds of taste. The terrace meant to resemble a Parisian pavement cafe would’ve particularly disappointed me - no open space, and the windows are too high to see out of when sitting down - it’d be better if they hadn’t bothered. Had I been onboard, I’d have been tallying up a long list of reasons as to why I should get a refund days before it sank, in true Edwardian Karen style.
I’d definitely opt for the open plan office with bungee weekend in that case.
As would I. Much better aesthetic and lots of open air.
No doubt that was a factor but fatigue is a failure mechanism where cracks happen, hold for a while but the repeated stresses of operation cause the crack to eventually fail.So, you're saying it failed because it was tired of his bullshit?
It's the classic Caesar's Last Breath exam question. Every time you breathe, or eat, you take in many atoms that were once physically part of your antecedents.
