• Onii-Chan
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      271 year ago

      Built with shit from Home Depot, controlled with a literal Logitech game controller, construction pipes as ballast… holy fuck, why would anybody agree to go 3.7km below the ocean in that deathtrap?

      • @StringTheory@beehaw.org
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        71 year ago

        Made out of a fiberglass tube (catastrophic failure) and titanium end caps (cracks) instead of steel.

        “Steel is real.”

        • Pigeon
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          21 year ago

          Titanium cracks under pressure, I take it?

          Or is the join between the cap and the fiberglass body potentially more of a problem?

          • @rustyspoon@beehaw.org
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            71 year ago

            Everything cracks under pressure, I’m not exactly sure what the above commenter is getting at. If the sub was steel the walls would be thinner. With titanium the walls are thicker. Without knowing the dimensions of the material we can’t know whether it was built to high enough standards.

          • @ZapBeebz@beehaw.org
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            71 year ago

            I mean, anything will crack under pressure. The biggest issue I see is uneven compression of the two materials coupled with different fatigue behaviors. I’d feel a lot safer if the whole submarine was titanium, honestly. Barring that, a couple inches of solid steel would be just as comforting.

          • @StringTheory@beehaw.org
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            31 year ago

            I would be worried about both. Joining two very different materials that need to deal with crazy pressures seems like a really bad idea.

          • @Uniquitous
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            11 year ago

            As I understand it, titanium is strong but brittle. It won’t bend, but it will break.

    • demvoter
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      101 year ago

      Wow, that is super sketchy. Now I am not at all surprised this happened. Hope that company has a shit ton of insurance.

      • TheFroggy
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        71 year ago

        Also, I’ve seen so many Scientific deepwater vehicles that are thethered to the ship in some form. Why isn’t this thing hooked up to a cran yhat can get it back up if someone fails? I’d think passenger vessels should pass more rigurous safety standards than that.

        Are they liable btw or is the “international waters” situation doing them any favor?

        • @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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          31 year ago

          I seem to recall a point in that CBS video where they had to sign a waiver stating among other things that they acknowledged it was an experimental vessel that is not certified by or approved any regulatory agency, so, yeah. I don’t know that I’d count on there being rigorous safely standards in that case

      • ReallyKinda
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        21 year ago

        There was a conspiracy that the original titanic going down was an insurance scam.

        • @NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org
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          111 year ago

          There’s also a conspiracy that my farts smell like rancid carrots because the government puts carrots up my butt while I’m sleeping

        • @mobyduck648@beehaw.org
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          81 year ago

          An easily disproved one too, as the sister ships weren’t actually identical. Also the recent scan on the ship revealed the hull number 401 on one of the propellers putting another nail in the coffin of the idea the ship is actually the Olympic.

          • @BlueDiamond@rammy.site
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            41 year ago

            Oh i hate that stupid theory. That’s like top tier “looking for a conspiracy because we’ve got nothing better to do”

        • FaceDeer
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          71 year ago

          They’re playing a really long game if so. Submarines like this weren’t even conceived of yet when the Titanic went down, it’d take tremendous foresight to have set this up.

        • Storksforlegs
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          It’s not a great theory. I’m pretty sure it would have made more money transporting passengers hundreds of times over