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I think it was probably that they were told the submersible had made a number of previous successful trips so assumed it would continue to do so--not realizing
by pasttense01 3y ago
I think it was probably that they were told the submersible had made a number of previous successful trips so assumed it would continue to do so--not realizing that the carbon fiber material could get weaker and weaker each trip.
- 7speter 3y agoIf I’m not mistaken, James Cameron said in his CNN interview from last week (maybe the first of many) that carbon fiber is able to seem like its fine after a number of trips and then have all of the previous stress cause it to fail, making the sensors the company used to monitor hull failure useless because such an accumulated failure can happen in milliseconds.
- danpalmer 3y agoActually they heard it cracking on each dive, but there was less each time so they assumed the problem was going away.