Transcript of Titan Submersible Radio Communications: [Background noise of humming and equipment] Pilot 1: Control, this is Titan submersible. We're currently at a depth of 4,500 meters. Everything has been smooth so far. Control: Copy that, Titan. Good to hear. Proceed with caution and keep us updated. Pilot 2: Roger that, Control. We're maintaining our descent. All systems look green. [Silence for a few moments] Pilot 1: Control, we're experiencing a sudden pressure spike in the cabin. Something's not right. Control: Titan, confirm the pressure readings. Is there a breach? Pilot 2: Control, the pressure is skyrocketing. We have an immediate and catastrophic hull failure! Control: Hold on, Titan. Initiate emergency ascent procedures immediately. We're mobilizing rescue teams. [Sound of frantic activity and alarms] Pilot 1: Control, the implosion is imminent. We won't be able to make it to the surface! Control: Stay calm, Titan. We're doing everything we can. Brace for impact and prepare for emergency extraction. [Sound of intense vibrations and metal creaking] Pilot 2: I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith – as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm gonna pilot this sub again. Control: Hang in there, Titan. We're trying to establish a connection with the rescue teams. Help is on the way!
Stockton Rush wouldnt have wanted this. Hed be building another discount sub today if he was still here
i love this story and i hope it never dies Hearing him describe the experience is enough to make anyone cringe. “I would say every three to four minutes there [were] loud gunshot-like noises. It's a heck of a sound to hear when you're that far under the ocean. And [in] a craft that has only been down that deep once before.” Stanley believed the loud noises were a cause for concern -- but when he raised the alarm, Stanley says his exchange with Rush became heated. Stanley's concerns revolved around the carbon-fiber hull, writing to Rush that the problem would only get worse. He also felt that Rush didn't have enough operating experience. “I literally painted a picture of his wrecked sub at the bottom [of the ocean] and even that wasn't enough," Stanley told '60 Minutes'. Stanley wasn't the only person in the maritime community concerned about Rush's undertaking -- according to the investigation, the opposition wasn't exactly scarce. But according to Rob McCallum, who previously led a Titanic submersible expedition in the early 2000s, said that he experienced something unusual in his field. “If someone raised a safety concern[...] they were not only not listened to, they were silenced," he tells '60 Minutes'. "That is such a toxic culture when it comes to safety and it's the reverse of everything else I know and the maritime industry.”
please start sending wealthy people to a floating colony on venus tia. I'll even throw in a few bucks if it helps.
I gotcha. The pressure is so immense at those depths - the gravitational force literally expands and in doing so, the particles expand with them. This has to do with Newtons 2nd law, I’m not too familiar but it had to rid itself of the self-contained oxygen that was pressurized. Spoiler I made that up. But it could be true?
As soon as the vessel imploded, the body would have been IMMEDIATELY exposed to roughly 6000 PSI of pressure on every square inch of the body. Think about what happens when you squeeze a grape between your fingers harder and harder. The force you apply eventually causes the insides to explode out. Now imagine instead of a grape it’s a human body, and instead of you squeezing it between your fingers, it’s 6000 PSI of water collapsing on it from all sides nearly instantaneously.
Ah, forgot about that part of this thread. I think my point still stands. Yes it's hard, but the hardest part is coming up with the money
I am irrationally angered by the use of the term alpinists here. Fuck them. They're mountain climbers. And apparently not very good ones.
In December 2015, two years before the Titan was built, Rush had lowered a one third scale model of his 4,000-meter-sub-to-be into a pressure chamber and watched it implode at 4,000 psi, a pressure equivalent to only 2,740 meters. The test’s stated goal was to “validate that the pressure vessel design is capable of withstanding an external pressure of 6,000 psi—corresponding to…a depth of about 4,200 meters.” He might have changed course then, stood back for a moment and reconsidered. But he didn’t. Instead, OceanGate issued a press release stating that the test had been a resounding success because it “demonstrates that the benefits of carbon fiber are real.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/titan-submersible-implosion-warnings