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[nemesis]

Colin, I go along with you about the "fatigue" on the material. First dive may have been OK but subsequent ones all have an effect hence the sad result, nemesis

[Martin (Admin)]

How many 'dives' had the sub made?

[cos918]

On the carbon fiber part. I might be wrong but I though Carbon fiber had its strength in expansion not compression ?
John

[Colin Bishop]

When deep diving the submersible is subjected to both compression and expansion as it descends and ascends so a lot of flexing up and down which may have impacted on the titanium/carbon fibre joints.

Colin

[Akira]

I apologize for cross posting, but this is an insightful briefing. For those that do not know, the author of the Bloncolirio channel is a Boeing 777 pilot after many years as a USAF pilot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfsBNAR5HTAThere are many points in this briefing that should cause one to pause. In the end, my mantra is :follow the money.

[tsenecal]

How many 'dives' had the sub made?

I saw a video where this was labelled as "Expedition V"  which i would GUESS means it imploded on its fifth dive.

[Baldrick]

  From Elsewhere.
Ross Kemp had planned to film a television show that involved a dive to the Titanic wreck site in the OceanGate submersible - but it was cancelled over safety fears, the production company took one look at the sub and declared it not fit for purpose.

[radiojoe]

What annoys me about this tragedy is the constant stream of videos on Upday/ Youtube ect.  about what may have happened in the implosion to the men on board do we really need to know, I think they should leave it alone and respect the feelings of the victims families.

[Circlip]

Only two pages and 32 replies, on a muddle ingineering forum, this subject has gone to 12 pages (they don't have post numbers) and more than twelve thousand views. Don't understand with the number of armchair Thermo and Hydro dynamicists why they weren't consulted at the design stage of this disaster waiting to happen? Hindsight is a great teacher.


  Todays news, tommorows chip paper, makes a change from the H & M saga.


  Regards   Ian.

[ballastanksian]

I think we are quite a measured bunch here Ian    We have a lot of experience and knowledge here but also restraint and acceptance that the people on the scene and/or involved in investigating this will do their job with or mostly without the help of the 'Lounge University'


Ian :)

[warspite]

and very few chippies wrap chips in newspaper as it's not allowed 


with the Cost of Living crisis - i would expect the newspaper has been used a loo paper as is days of old - all its worth for anyway