Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search

[JustSurfaceInterval]

Well... If you accidentally made too much of it, you can put it in the freezer...then you'll still have it the next time you need it....

 

[Jonn]

Anyone know why they built it out of carbon and titanium in the first place? That construction seems more like a space ship than a submarine! Composites make way more sense for pressure tanks where the fibres are in tension than vacuum tanks, and we scuba divers have decided they’re mostly a waste of time underwater… A quarter mill per ticket doesn’t actually take you that far in this game either; seems they were aggressively cutting costs in other areas. Why use these very expensive ultra-light materials when they could use simple, reliable, and much cheaper homogeneous steel?

 

[O-ring]

Anyone know why they built it out of carbon and titanium in the first place? That construction seems more like a space ship than a submarine! Composites make way more sense for pressure tanks where the fibres are in tension than vacuum tanks, and we scuba divers have decided they’re mostly a waste of time underwater… A quarter mill per ticket doesn’t actually take you that far in this game either; seems they were aggressively cutting costs in other areas. Why use these very expensive ultra-light materials when they could use simple, reliable, and much cheaper homogeneous steel?

If memory serves the CEO had a background in aerospace engineering and/or in the aerospace industry so maybe he just went with what he knew and tried to apply that to submersibles?

 

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[broncobowsher]

Why would you heat hot water?

I live in Arizona. The "cold" water comes out hot during the summer. But not as hot as I want it. So the hot water goes into the hot water heater to have even more heat put into it.

 

[Dormant]

With all the money at Stockton Rush's disposal, why not charter onto existing subs instead of a haphazard build? Or hire people in the field to assist his own endeavor?

 

[rhwestfall]

With all the money at Stockton Rush's disposal, why not charter onto existing subs instead of a haphazard build? Or hire people in the field to assist his own endeavor?

One word answer: H-U-B-R-I-S

 

[Dormant]

The intersection of F Around meets Finding Out.

 

[broncobowsher]

Another Billionaire bites it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/business/james-crown-obit/index.html

Risky business being a Billionaire.

 

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