Missing Titanic Sub

[Good2Golf]

 

[Retired AF Guy]

That would a Canadianized P-8 modified with turboprop engines.

Listening to news on SiriusXM this afternoon and one announcer stated a "Canadian P-3" had made the discovery.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Vanity tourism.

Wait until a group of space tourists run into trouble.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Wait until a group of space tourists run into trouble.

I think the space tourism is regulated through the FAA

 

[KevinB]

Listening to news on SiriusXM this afternoon and one announcer stated a "Canadian P-3" had made the discovery.

Well technically not incorrect.

 

[Quirky]

 

[lenaitch]

This from the "well, that quote didn't age well" files ...

The maker of the lost Titan submersible previously complained about strict passenger-vessel regulations, saying the industry was 'obscenely safe'

In a 2019 interview about the Titan, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush lamented the effect of safety regulations on the commercial submersible industry.

www.insider.com

I think the space tourism is regulated through the FAA

Likely only the launches from US soil or territorial waters. The one small advantage of space exploration is they start from someone's sovereign territory/waters (somebody launches from French Polynesia). I'm not sure anybody launches from a platform on the high seas.

 

[Remius]

Looks like news is breaking that a debris field has been found…

 

[OldSolduer]

I hope a real submariner weighs in but I think with every dive the hull is compressed then when surfacing it expands. This has got to cause metal fatigue on a proper submarine. Can the same be said of carbon fiber? As the guy in the video said carbon fiber shatters.

 

[The Bread Guy]

... I'm not sure anybody launches from a platform on the high seas.

If it makes it cheaper & easier to skirt rules, if it ain't happening, wait for it.

Looks like news is breaking that a debris field has been found…

Initial reports ....

Debris field found near Titanic as Canadian ROV reaches sea floor in search for missing sub

A remotely operated underwater vehicle has discovered a debris field near the Titanic as the search for a missing submersible continued on Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[QV]

I hope a real submariner weighs in but I think with every dive the hull is compressed then when surfacing it expands. This has got to cause metal fatigue on a proper submarine. Can the same be said of carbon fiber? As the guy in the video said carbon fiber shatters.

At those kinds of depths the stress on the structure must be intense.

 

[shiska]

5500 psi YIKES. At that pressure t I doubt there's even such a thing as a leak, just an instantaneous collapse the moment the pressure vessel isnt 100% solid. If they experienced that kind of event then it's likely the crew never even knew something went wrong.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Gulp....

"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says​

Debris from OceanGate sub found 1,600 feet from Titanic after "catastrophic implosion," U.S. Coast Guard says

The U.S. Coast Guard said the sub experienced a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," and confirmed that a debris field found on the sea floor was pieces of the missing sub.

www.cbsnews.com

And Gulp....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1671927490082750478

 

[NavyShooter]

This is my 'not surprised face'.

 

[FormerHorseGuard]

I cannot get over the number of videos and pages dedicated to build your own sub program.

Guess the video thru a window at 12 000 plus feet is worth the risk?
not for me

 

[OldSolduer]

This is my 'not surprised face'.

Mine as well

 

[Kilted]

I was hoping I was going to get to make this comment in a much happier light, but at this point it is starting to look like their won't be a Matt Damon movie made out of this.

 

[KevinB]

I cannot get over the number of videos and pages dedicated to build your own sub program.

Guess the video thru a window at 12 000 plus feet is worth the risk?
not for me

The window was only one of the major issues that build had.

Honestly I’m legit surprised the designer hadn’t died years ago with his rather haphazard build styles.

Just running some basic stress analysis of the tube shows some very specific issues even before that pressure level.

I’m no sub designer, but I can think of several hundred improved design choices that I’d have used if someone had tasked me to build one. #1 would have been a detailed Q&A with an actual Sub design expert and and experience Submariner to get key features determined before a design was settled on.

I’m legitimately floored that there was no underlying skeleton to the Carbon Fibre tube - to both provide structural stability for the wrap - but also so one didn’t glue the front and rear caps to the tube.

Anyway can’t say I’m shocked this ended up badly.

 

[KevinB]

5 aboard missing Titanic tourist sub are dead, officials said — Los Angeles Times

The five passengers aboard the submersible that vanished on a trip to explore the Titanic in the Atlantic have died, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

apple.news

Well they died quickly. Looks like the tube fractured at the bottom.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

The part that gets me is that Paul-Henry Nargeolet is an expert diver and deep-sea explorer who has made something like 30 previous trips to the Titanic wreckage and must have known that there problems with the Titan sub

I was hoping I was going to get to make this comment in a much happier light, but at this point it is starting to look like their won't be a Matt Damon movie made out of this.

Don't worry, some ghoul somewhere will try.