News & Events Missing Titanic tourist submarine

[OnTheRocks]

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Can't see the plexiglass window.

Point of failure? Didn't Rush say that the plexglass shrinks and moves into the cabin? He probs was showing off and said "look at the portal changing shape" then with his knuckles went tap tap and broke the glass.

 

[por_please_ya]

Wow didn't realise they'd actually recovered it :O

 

[Spiritof82]

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Can't see the plexiglass window.

Probably blew in when the craft crushed, both circular ends of it are probably in one piece but the centre tube would be flattened by the pressure. Shows why all other manned diving bells are circular, way stronger, while this design has shown its faults it the wrong way.

 

[OnTheRocks]

Theory #487624
The titan had a toilet for passengers to stay comfortable.
Old matey Stocky has put the controller down and decided to go for a wizz. Mid stream he hears the pop pop sounds of the hull stressing. Snag out, piss flying everywhere over the passengers, he scrambles for the controller to get the sub to surface.

 

[peternorth]

Theory #487624
The titan had a toilet for passengers to stay comfortable.
Old matey Stocky has put the controller down and decided to go for a wizz. Mid stream he hears the pop pop sounds of the hull stressing. Snag out, piss flying everywhere over the passengers, he scrambles for the controller to get the sub to surface.

What? Syd was in the sub???

 

[Cyber_punk]

Surprised how big the debris pieces are. Much of it is intact.

The human remains they have supposedly found must surely be just bones

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Virginia galactic taking off.
Who's going to retrieve that.

 

[OnTheRocks]

Surprised how big the debris pieces are. Much of it is intact.

The human remains they have supposedly found must surely be just bones

Could be just four skins

 

[Bluelegs]

Could be just four skins

 

[Spiritof82]

Surprised how big the debris pieces are. Much of it is intact.

The human remains they have supposedly found must surely be just bones

The pressure hull (people tank) was what imploded, the pipework and cabling they have brought up were on the outside of the hull and could handle the pressure, so when the pressure hull imploded they would've just been knocked off by the blast. The passengers, maybe a few bone pieces or skin stuck to the metal but mainly soup.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Surprised how big the debris pieces are. Much of it is intact.

The human remains they have supposedly found must surely be just bones

I have a suspicion that bodies fare much better than what people are suggesting.

 

[Rob R]

Maybe because the titan sub involved the unknown and people might be alive? The loss of the economic migrants is sadder but in reality neither trip should have happened and the organiser need significant fines and jail terms.

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[Rob R]

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That is offensive. It would be good if the museums said that five rich idiots decided to visit what is essentially a tomb for over a 1000 people to suit their ego and died as a result of arrogance and stupidity

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[Rotayjay]

I thought the victims would have been pulverised into marine snow - I guess not, now that some human remains have been found. At least the families will get a little bit of closure. Maybe DNA testing will be required to identify whose remains have been recovered.

 

[Bluelegs]

I'm surprised they've found human remains. Most people who fall off cruise ships are never found. I suppose there is a much smaller area to look for them here.

 

[OnTheRocks]

I'm surprised they've found human remains. Most people who fall off cruise ships are never found. I suppose there is a much smaller area to look for them here.

Maybe they found a bit of Stockys colon?
He was a bit of an arzzhole after all.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

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Can't see the plexiglass window.

that looks in tact quite well. Like it has just popped off. Wonder if that was the weak point and just squeezed out when it imploded on itself

 

[Long Live HFC]

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.

www.newyorker.com

not really any major items we didn't already know, but certainly more specific detail than what we've seen so far. definitely worth a read.

On January 18, 2018, Lochridge studied each major component, and found several critical aspects to be defective or unproven. He drafted a detailed report, which has not previously been made public, and attached photographs of the elements of greatest concern. Glue was coming away from the seams of ballast bags, and mounting bolts threatened to rupture them; both sealing faces had errant plunge holes and O-ring grooves that deviated from standard design parameters. The exostructure and electrical pods used different metals, which could result in galvanic corrosion when exposed to seawater. The thruster cables posed “snagging hazards”; the iridium satellite beacon, to transmit the submersible’s position after surfacing, was attached with zip ties. The flooring was highly flammable; the interior vinyl wrapping emitted “highly toxic gasses upon ignition.”


To assess the carbon-fibre hull, Lochridge examined a small cross-section of material. He found that it had “very visible signs of delamination and porosity”—it seemed possible that, after repeated dives, it would come apart. He shone a light at the sample from behind, and photographed beams streaming through splits in the midsection in a disturbing, irregular pattern. The only safe way to dive, Lochridge concluded, was to first carry out a full scan of the hull.
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Soon afterward, Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot. “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me. She added that several of the engineers were in their late teens and early twenties, and were at one point being paid fifteen dollars an hour. Without Lochridge around, “I could not work for Stockton,” she said. “I did not trust him.” As soon as she was able to line up a new job, she quit.

 

[Royces Hart]

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.

www.newyorker.com

not really any major items we didn't already know, but certainly more specific detail than what we've seen so far. definitely worth a read.

Jesus H Christ. The only miracle is that this thing lasted as long as it did. Teenagers getting paid $15/hour, fmd.

 

[eyeroller]

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.

www.newyorker.com

not really any major items we didn't already know, but certainly more specific detail than what we've seen so far. definitely worth a read.

Stockton Rush was either evil or crazy or both. The fact that he went on the sub himself and died makes me think it's one of the latter two.

 

[Cyber_punk]

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.

www.newyorker.com

not really any major items we didn't already know, but certainly more specific detail than what we've seen so far. definitely worth a read.

Lol, the level of scheming to get around stuff like certain laws is almost impressive:

“Stockton strategically structured everything to be out of U.S. jurisdiction” for its Titanic pursuits, the former senior OceanGate employee told me. “It was deliberate.” In a legal filing, the company reported that the submersible was “being developed and assembled in Washington, but will be owned by a Bahamian entity, will be registered in the Bahamas and will operate exclusively outside the territorial waters of the United States.” Although it is illegal to transport passengers in an unclassed, experimental submersible, “under U.S. regulations, you can kill crew,” McCallum told me. “You do get in a little bit of trouble, in the eyes of the law. But, if you kill a passenger, you’re in big trouble. And so everyone was classified as a ‘mission specialist.’ There were no passengers—the word ‘passenger’ was never used.” No one bought tickets; they contributed an amount of money set by Rush to one of OceanGate’s entities, to fund their own missions.

 

[Chief]

A court would see through that in 5 seconds flat.

 

[MP_]

A court would see through that in 5 seconds flat.

 

[ElectricG]

Con artist.

 

[cats_09]

I thought this sign was funny - seems not everyone agrees