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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

CBS dude rode on it and did an interview with the owner.

So many red flags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29co_Hksk6o&feature=youtu.be

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Built with shit from Home Depot, controlled with a literal Logitech game controller, construction pipes as ballast... holy fuck, why would anybody agree to go 3.7km below the surface of the ocean in that deathtrap?

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Imagine paying $250k and the pilot pulls out the player 2 controller

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Made out of a fiberglass tube (catastrophic failure) and titanium end caps (cracks) instead of steel.

    “Steel is real.”

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Titanium cracks under pressure, I take it?

    Or is the join between the cap and the fiberglass body potentially more of a problem?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Everything cracks under pressure, I'm not exactly sure what the above commenter is getting at. If the sub was steel the walls would be thinner. With titanium the walls are thicker. Without knowing the dimensions of the material we can't know whether it was built to high enough standards.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I mean, anything will crack under pressure. The biggest issue I see is uneven compression of the two materials coupled with different fatigue behaviors. I'd feel a lot safer if the whole submarine was titanium, honestly. Barring that, a couple inches of solid steel would be just as comforting.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I would be worried about both. Joining two very different materials that need to deal with crazy pressures seems like a really bad idea.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wow, that is super sketchy. Now I am not at all surprised this happened. Hope that company has a shit ton of insurance.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Also, I’ve seen so many Scientific deepwater vehicles that are thethered to the ship in some form. Why isn’t this thing hooked up to a cran yhat can get it back up if someone fails? I’d think passenger vessels should pass more rigurous safety standards than that.

    Are they liable btw or is the “international waters” situation doing them any favor?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I seem to recall a point in that CBS video where they had to sign a waiver stating among other things that they acknowledged it was an experimental vessel that is not certified by or approved any regulatory agency, so, yeah. I don't know that I'd count on there being rigorous safely standards in that case

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    There was a conspiracy that the original titanic going down was an insurance scam.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    There's also a conspiracy that my farts smell like rancid carrots because the government puts carrots up my butt while I'm sleeping

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    An easily disproved one too, as the sister ships weren’t actually identical. Also the recent scan on the ship revealed the hull number 401 on one of the propellers putting another nail in the coffin of the idea the ship is actually the Olympic.

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