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The monitor mounts screwed directly into the hull seem a likely starting point for the failure.
by zardo 3y ago
The monitor mounts screwed directly into the hull seem a likely starting point for the failure.
- akiselev 3y agoIn the photos I've seen, it was pretty clear that they had a separate inner hull for mounting stuff. If they really drilled into the outer hull, it wouldn't have survived the first trip as that would have certainly caused matrix cracking that propagated to the skin. It would have failed in the first 1000 meters.
- AlbertoGP 3y ago> The monitor mounts screwed directly into the hull seem a likely starting point for the failure. Nothing was screwed directly into the hull: > These handle-lights aren’t attached to the carbon fiber. The sub is lined with a big insert, a perforated metal sleeve, that fits snugly against the carbon fiber, like a rolled-up poster in a mailing tube. “The thing with carbon fiber is you can’t cut holes in it. It doesn’t like that,” Rush says. “Nothing touches the carbon fiber.” — David Pogue in “What I Learned on a Titanic Sub Expedition” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/what-i-learned-on-a-titanic-submarine-expedition.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/what-i-learned-on-a-...
- soligern 3y agoThat’s just random 4chan speculation passed off as fact.