Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search

[Twoblues]

Brittish revenge after US kicked their butts in 1776.

They didn't stop there trying to grab us back unto King Georges brand of bloody slavery. 1814? " In 1814 we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Missiissip....."

 

[JustSurfaceInterval]

Wow.. 4 pages in 2 hours... that's really a hot topic.
Interesting how quickly the location was used here to construct a historical context. The location may be Germany, but who tells you that the writer of these lines is also German?
Anyway.... Back to the headline topic...

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2.8 cubic feet is approx 80 L, right? i've got a garbage bin of that size. That's barely enough for 1 (uncompressed) human...

 

[berndo]

This proves at least one of them has a sense of humor.

I wasn't kidding, I'm asking. IIRC in the 80s you would see 'made in the USA' on some products. Haven't seen that in a long time, not that I remember anyway.

 

[Wookie]

I wasn't kidding, I'm asking. IIRC in the 80s you would see 'made in the USA' on some products. Haven't seen that in a long time, not that I remember anyway.

Solar Panels
Micro-controllers
Crude Oil
Aircraft
Passenger Vehicles
Entertainment (Movies, software, games, books)
Pharmaceuticals
refined chemicals
Optics
Semi-conductors.

 

[makar0n]

Now back on topic perhaps, since I am eagerly waiting for the meme "ban" to be lifted...
And in the meantime more fun from Reddit:

www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/14hff09/oceangate_ceo_stockton_rush_email_exchange_with/

Almost like the CE bashing around here

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Why? Internet Archive almost certainly has a copy.

I didn't mean to sound like doing so would be an attempt to cover up. After Rob Stewart died, the FB posts about his dives were quickly deleted (which I think was an attempt to cover that up).

I found that the "our team" link is dead on the Oceangate site. (404 not found), but there's a lot more information that could be cleaned up.

I think it isn't a preposterous statement to say that Oceangate is going to close very soon. I would expect all Oceangate employees to be looking for another job. The company was mostly funded by Stockton's trust fund after all.

While I don't think that there will be government regulations addressing the causes of this accident, my hopes is that memories are maintained and that no one ignores best engineering practices in the future.

Who I really feel for is that Pakistani mother who lost a husband AND a son. She must be going completely out of her mind from grief. As a parent myself, I don't think she will ever recover, but I hope she finds a way to cope and find peace. Not sure if that is possible though from such a loss.

Honestly my question is why the comm silence about the implosion sounds being recorded by SOSUS and other ocean listening networks? James Cameron reports that those in his network knew about this Monday, and so did the USN who informed the USCG.

I understand continuing the surface search until you can confirm with the ROV but it gave a lot of people false hope that they were still alive, why?

As stated, you never stop searching until you know for certain or survival is statistically impossible.

 

[makar0n]

And moar (that is if that is not some interior layer?)


www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14h8odf/dont_drill_a_hole_into_carbon_fiber_it_ends_badly/

 

[Angelo Farina]

My apologies, I know better than that, you're right about force and energy, of course.

But you're critique is still way off point.

I just attempted to provide the significant quantity for assessing the size of the implosion.
A lot of weird numbers were posted in this thread, none of them expressing the amount of energy. p×V, it is simple...

 

[BackAfter30]

And moar (that is if that is not some interior layer?)


www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14h8odf/dont_drill_a_hole_into_carbon_fiber_it_ends_badly/

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I saw this. My belief is that this has GOT to be a layer inside the pressure hull. Maybe a thermal layer of some sort? It's impossible for me to accept that they could have driven screws into the CF.

 

[Angelo Farina]

As an esoteric exercise I ran a Boyle's law calculation on the change in volume of the air in the sub at implosion

Assuming the inside of the sub was 5 feet in diameter and 15 feet long the interior volume would have been 785 cubic feet. Pressure in the sub was 14.7 psi ( normal atmospheric pressure).

If implosion depth was 11,500 feet, sea water pressure was about 5100 psi.

At the instant of implosion the internal air volume (785 cu/ft @14.7 psi) would have been compressed to 2.8 cubic feet at 5500 psi.
Not a lot of room for 5 bodies in 2.8 cubic feet. That is equal to a box about 17" x 17" x 17".

It is even worst. Your calculation is quasi-static.
And unnecessary complex. If external pressure at 4000m depth is 400 bars, the internal volume will become 1/400 of the original volume.
But the event was highly dynamic...
The shell parts were accelerated towards the center, were air and corpses were compressed. Due to inertia, the compression reaches a peak pressure several times larger than the external pressure, so in the maximum compression instant the inner pressure has peaked somewhere around 1000 bars (2.5 times the external pressure of 400 bars).
Perhaps even more.
So the inner volume of the shell was instantaneusly reduced to 1/1000 of the original value.
But as the compressed material is elastic, after reaching that very high pressure peak, the compressed material did expand back, projecting small chunks of the shell and its contents all around.
Only very hard parts, such as the titanium domes, could have survived the secondary explosion.