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That thing is wildly capable. It belongs at sea.
by imwillofficial 4y ago
That thing is wildly capable.
It belongs at sea.
- grendelt 4y agoExcept... > Mobile-native filmmaker Mike deGruy– who dived on “Titanic” with director James Cameron and for his BBC series “The Blue Planet”– took a look at the vessel in 2010 saying at the time that “a person would have to be crazy to go underwater in that contraption.”
- hyperhopper 4y agoDoes he mean now, after decades of disrepair, or originally when it was actively used?
- imwillofficial 4y agoOriginally. Diving to the Sesotho it could is an impressive feat.
- smileysteve 4y agoYou're looking at 40 years of degradation to the - every (rubber, for the time) seal needing to be replaced, in every fitting and valve. - the lower unit seems to have fractured under its own weight (this is likely the ballast tanks), this would need to be remade. - any pressure areas need to be retested (including the crew area) and replaced (all compressed air storage). Now, for the easy parts - the batteries will have to be replaced, but lithium ion is going to give you better performance at smaller size, with less degradation. (You'll have to compensate the weight though) - the motors will have to be replaced, but can use much more efficient, likely better sealed, better cooled, smaller, safer motors with pwm electric speed controllers. - modern glass and fastening techniques could replace the viewports, possibly add more as you rebuild the negative pressure vessel. - air management is easier to instrument. - you can add a bunch more cameras and sensors on the cheap that are significantly better than the let's
- iancmceachern 4y agoPlus rust and corrosion. You could never be certain that pressure vessel is structurally sound without scrapping it and rebuilding.
- bluGill 4y agoDepending on what it was made of that might not be enough. Some metals have weird fatigue issues.
- anotheraccount9 4y agoOk. Could we get the plans and make a new one, for fun?
- ufmace 4y agoYeah but by the time you do all that, you probably would have been better off just building a new submarine from scratch
- otikik 4y agoTheseus’ submarine.
- Maursault 4y agoIt's far easier to build a space ship, and outer space less dangerous to pilot through than the bottom of the ocean.
- elzbardico 4y agoI don’t think a filmmaker is someone qualified to do this kind of judgement.
- brk 4y agoYeah, it would make a great artificial reef.