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Their bodies are also pressurized at 1 atms, after being exposed to 400 atms they instantly died. My guess is that they were effectively vaporized/liquified. Much better way to go then suffocate in darkness.
Why are people assuming this? How about a leak that fills the sub with water? Is a leak impossible to keep stable at those depths?
Does this qualify for a Darwin award?
And then conning few other people to go into something that looked like what mythbusters built in a week (and if THEY did it it would probably not implode...)
"Mechanic on ‘record-setting’ Titan dive dismisses criticism from ‘armchair experts’"
https://news.yahoo.com/mechanic-record-setting-titan-dive-19...
In this case, the CEO risking his life on this third(!) voyage means 1 of 2 possibilities: 1) The CEO has done the due diligence and has a thorough understanding of the risks and the safety protocols involved to minimize those risks. 2) The CEO is naive.
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It's a good guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin > Investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the crescent-shaped opening measuring 60 centimetres (24 in) long created by the jammed interior trunk door. With the escaping air and pressure, it included bisection o…
I tried to find [1] how much pressure explosion of a grenade would cause. It would take a lot of grenades to get to 400 atmospheres... - [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5514183/#:~:tex...
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That wiki page describes a decompression injury, which AFAIU is the opposite of implosion: > This resulted in the chamber being explosively decompressed from a pressure of nine atmospheres to the one atmosphere of the unsealed chamber system. Whereas an analogous description of the submarine implosion would describe the opposite, i.e. "explosively compressed from a pressure of one atmosphere to 400 atmospheres."
The point is the extreme, rapid force involved. Imploding or exploding, nine atmospheres is gonna suck. 400 atmospheres is... like standing under a nuclear bomb. The good news is it doesn't hurt, at all. Someone else on the thread posted a video of a one atmosphere implosion ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM ). 400x the pressure here.
Well, this explains a lot... they didn't have a window rated for the right depth and weren't really testing whether the hull was de-laminating according to the whistleblower, so we have a few guesses as to why the sub would just implode. The lack of contact would be because nobody was alive to contact, which is honestly better, at least they had a quick death instead of slow suffocation. And the banging noises are pr…
As I understood it, this was for the 1/3 scale model.
I still haven't seen a comprehensive write-up that assigns facts to the model vs. the final article or compares them.
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Did Oceangate or its founder(s) say they intended to 'move fast and break things', or are you just imputing that they held those beliefs? The company purported to "maintain[] high-level operational safety".
> Metro reports that last year, when asked about the safety of the Titan submersible, Stockton Rush, OceanGate’s CEO, said, “You know, there’s a limit. At some point safety just is pure waste. I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk/reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by…
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