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I'm struggling to find real statistics to back this up, but my suspicion is that other deep-submergence vehicles used to travel to this depth (and further) have
by babypuncher 3y ago
I'm struggling to find real statistics to back this up, but my suspicion is that other deep-submergence vehicles used to travel to this depth (and further) have a failure rate of 0% for manned missions.
My suspicion is based on the fact that I can't find any other stories of deep sea vehicles failing and killing their passengers in the last 40 years. DSV Alvin for example has completed 5,000 dives with 0 fatalities.
- WillPostForFood 3y agoAccording to this interview with Bob Ballard, there have been no fatalities or catastrophic accidents in the deep sea submersible/exploration world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJ_SSU-ocU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJ_SSU-ocU He mentioned since 1960, but unclear if that was because that's when the deep sea submersible exploration started, or something happened in 1960. That makes OceanGate's sub seem like a uniquely incompetent design.
- babypuncher 3y agoDr Ballard seems like as authoritative of a source as any. OceanGate just ruined a 60 year perfect track record for an entire field of engineering.