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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

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There's a video on the Fox site, but I can't post it here. Guess I'm dumb.

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Titanic sub debris seen for first time since deadly catastrophe

New photos reveal the debris of OceanGate Exploration's Titan submersible for the first time since the craft's catastrophic and deadly failure last week.
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View port missing is interesting. Wonder if that could happen during a hull failure implosion.
 
FlatLander said:
View port missing is interesting. Wonder if that could happen during a hull failure implosion.
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In the second photo, is that one of the interface rings that was glued to the carbon fiber tube? With one of the hinges showing?
 
That's a really big coaxial cable. Also, there's a lot of stuff left that I figured would be atomized from looking at the first pic.
 
Dead Pool said:
That's a really big coaxial cable. Also, there's a lot of stuff left that I figured would be atomized from looking at the first pic.
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Only the crew compartment was pressurized. The stuff in the tail wasn't. The titanium rings and endcaps are most likely all that survived of the crew compartment.
 
So the carbon is literally just chopsticks at the bottom of the ocean?

What a fucking way to go.
What does that pressure (no implosion) do to a human body?
 
CarterKraft said:
So the carbon is literally just chopsticks at the bottom of the ocean?

What a fucking way to go.
What does that pressure (no implosion) do to a human body?
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Well, before the brain can process to the stimulus it’s all over.
Within 30 milliseconds the air compression creates heat over 1200 (random very high figure) degrees, instantly killing and boiling everything.
Then the bubble is completely compressed, a second isn’t even close to passing and your now floating in the ocean as tiny squiggles of meat, like ground meat passed though twice.
 
aczlan said:
Looks like it, also looks like the CF possibly peeled off a layer there?
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Aaron Z
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Yup. So the glue was stronger than the CF? As the CF tube deflected into inward under pressure the glue joint and/or ID of the titanium ring could handle it. Probably the ring, right?
 
I'd bet there was a half a second or so of new noises that didn't sound right. Before they could process that they were about to die, they were dead.

There's one piece that I want to see that wasn't in the pictures or the video. It's the thimble that they laid the CF over. Would have probably been made from the same material as the collars and domes, titanium.

When the CF failed, it would have taken all the pressure for a millisecond and collapsed around the everything inside it to the point there would be no air space inside it.

That piece would show the power of what happened and should have been on bottom.
 
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plym49.2 said:
Yup. So the glue was stronger than the CF? As the CF tube deflected into inward under pressure the glue joint and/or ID of the titanium ring could handle it. Probably the ring, right?
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Just to be pedantic. Glue can hold dissimilar materials together, but in the case of PVC, CPVC, ABS and other materials, you get a solvent cement weld. It's just like mig welding, you're fusing some of the inner piece to the outer pieces through chemical reaction. It's a way stronger bond that just using glue, I don't care how strong the glue is.
 
gt1guy said:
I'd bet the was a half a second or so of new noises that didn't sound right. Before they could process that they were about to die, they were dead.

There's one piece that I want to see that wasn't in the pictures or the video. It's the thimble that they laid the CF over. Would have probably been made from the same material as the collars and domes, titanium.

When the CF failed, it would have taken all the pressure for a millisecond and collapsed around the everything inside it to the point there would be no air space inside it.

That piece would show the power of what happened and should have been on bottom.
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From what I was reading, it sounded like they put the whole thing on a lathe after they were done and trued the ends up, would they do that if there was a thimble in the end?

Aaron Z
 
I'm positive there were cameras rolling on the sub. Sooner or later they will retrieve it from the wreckage and someone will know what happened. I doubt we will ever see the footage, but it would be interesting in a morbid sort of way.
 
Elwenil said:
I'm positive there were cameras rolling on the sub. Sooner or later they will retrieve it from the wreckage and someone will know what happened. I doubt we will ever see the footage, but it would be interesting in a morbid sort of way.
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You think cameras or solid state memory survived that?
 
bgaidan said:
You think cameras or solid state memory survived that?
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I would guess whatever memory it was saved on would survive. It looks like most of the equipment was in the tail and not in the capsule, so it would be exposed for the most part anyway or at least independent of the main capsule and may have maintained it's integrity.
 
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