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The looking glass was only rated for 4,000 feet. Implosion happened around 9,000 feet, which would suggest the glass handled over twice its rated depth.
by az226 3y ago
The looking glass was only rated for 4,000 feet. Implosion happened around 9,000 feet, which would suggest the glass handled over twice its rated depth.
- stjohnswarts 3y agoand survived several dives before that to 13000ft, no?
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoFlip a coin enough times, it's bound to be tails
- bilekas 3y agoI'm wondering this myself, they don't have any history logged of a trip before. I think this might have been the first one. In minimal fairness, at least the owner put his money where is mouth was. Sidebar : The owner/ceo did a 10 hour overall at max ~3kMeteres A lot of measure of units thrown around in this thread too.
- pbourke 3y agoDavid Pogue observed them visiting the Titanic. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/david-pogue-misinformation-misunderstandings-titanic-sub-rcna90617 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/david-pogue-misinforma...
- artdigital 3y agoThey did many many trips There’s also a documentary on bbc about one of those trips
- thevagrant 3y agoMany? The picture in the news early on showing signatures of the passengers on a poster titled Mission V. I took that to mean this was their 5th trip with this submersible
- rovr138 3y agoSo that’s added stress at pressures that it wasn’t rated for.
- az226 3y agoPressure cookers that are rated for 15 PSI typically come apart at 75 PSI. But that’s the thing about ratings. The manufacturer guarantees safe usage at 15 PSI and anything above that all bets are off and you’re on your own. Same with milk and expiration dates. Many times the milk is fine after the date, but the dairy won’t guarantee freshness and food safety. Same for this looking glass. It says what the CEO thought about safety. He was willing to take chances and roll the dice. And every once in a while you get snake eyes. The consequences of rolling • • at 9,000ft of depth in the ocean is sadly instant soup. The water entering the vessel would likely be 5,000F degrees or so. While some people say it would be an instant death and not consciously detectable, I disagree. I think they were given just enough time for the brain to go oh shit, but only got to the oh part, and lights out.
- bilekas 3y agoSorry but for metric units, 9k feet is around <3k~ Looking glass rated 4k 'feet' around 1200 meters.. Not sure as there is a video of the ceo going to 3k meters solo in the titan on a 10~ hour trip.. That said, not much of this craft was 'rated' for anything..