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> 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-l
by 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-...