• 「fleece!」@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    This is haunting.

    There’s no gore or anything, it’s just twisted metal and cables. Still, seeing it and thinking “humans were alive in there mere days ago” made my gut drop. It’s not like looking at wreckage of an old ship or plane or something, it’s different. Because it’s so small, it feels more intimate. Like looking at a coffin vs looking at a graveyard

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    1 year ago

    Wow I didn’t know they were going to recover it at all. Pretty cool. Can’t wait to read about how shitty the design was.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, it’s well known by this point. But a “seconds from disaster” version of it would be interesting to watch as disaster porn.

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    1 year ago

    Both titanium support rings were recovered intact. These are what bonded the carbon fiber hull to the titanium ends. There isn’t any evidence of carbon fiber still attached in the photos/ videos of the debris.

    Edit: more photos

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      1 year ago

      Ya the only damage would be from the implosion and shrapnel. Everything else was sitting at the same pressure, so there’s nothing really going on to cause damage.

      It’s weird seeing huge pieces that look relatively undamaged. Looks like you can just throw that frame with all the electronics in the spare parts bin and call it a day lol

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    1 year ago

    Interesting - I had imagined it being imploded into bits like the simulations on the news show.

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      1 year ago

      I believe this is the outer portion. The carbon fiber shell imploded and is probably not recoverable.

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      1 year ago

      I’m certainly no expert but I understand submarines have an inner and outer hull. The inner hull has to withstand the pressure of the deep but the outer hull does not. The inner hull would be crushed into bits but the outer hull and any equipment in-between would likely be ripped into large chunks as such a violent event occurs inside of it.

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        Subs have dual hulls so they can fill the void between them with water to sink, or air to float, but they don’t dive anywhere near as deep. Most regular naval subs operate above 800 meters. They only have to be below the surface of the water for stealth, not at the bottom of the ocean.

        This craft was a single hull design as far as I’m aware, designed with a rigid hull to try and counteract the pressure at the bottom.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, double hull might not be correct for what I’m trying to describe, as I know the Titan used ballast weights to sink rather than flooding void spaces. But in every picture I’ve seen of the thing so far, the outer layer looks like it was a sort of shroud to protect against more conventional sources of damage (read: bumping into shit). I could be entirely wrong about that, and should probably have refrained from commenting.

    • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The outer shell didn’t hold pressure and was there to cover wires/ equipment exposed outside the pressure vessel.

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      1 year ago

      like the simulations on the news show

      Why would you put any faith in a simulation by an organization that has no knowledge of the domain?

    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Controllers like that are used on nuclear attack submarines aswell so that is not the issue even though it might seem funny to someone not familiar with this stuff.

      Those companies have made billions of them over several decades. It’s much more reliable to go with a one like that than to develop a new one from scratch. Submarines don’t implode because it was steered by a logitech controller

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        1 year ago

        Nuclear subs do not however use them for propulsion. Something like a very basic input delay or other Bluetooth issue could be catastrophic.

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        1 year ago

        In a video I heard the CEO say they have spare ones on hand, just in case. But still, having my life depend on a Bluetooth device seems just wrong. Why not go with a direct cable? Much less to go wrong!

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          1 year ago

          I don’t disagree. I almost refuse to use even wireless headphones myself.

          However all the fail-safes on the sub were quite decent in my opinion so the controller isn’t really life-critical. The issue was that none of the safety features protects you from far exceeding the rated maximum dive depth. They probably didn’t know what hit them.