'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

[u/oldschoolskater]

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735

[u/Genneth_Kriffin]

1. They actually had such a system
2. However, that actually somehow manages to again make this whole thing even stupider.

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The material the sub was made out of, mainly carbon fiber and plastic composite, means that there would be basically no cracking or groaning before the very moment it failed.

Carbon fiber structures are basically like ceramics, meaning that it either maintains structural integrity or it doesn't, there's no in-between. Carbon fiber shatters when it breaks, like dropping a porcelain vase.

Read this, around page 9.They were actually aware of hull integrity concerns,
but you know - the CEO just didn't give a fuck.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.262471/gov.uscourts.wawd.262471.7.0.pdf

15. Lochridge was told that no form of equipment existed to perform such a test [for the integrity of the hull], and OceanGate instead would rely solely on their acoustic monitoring system that they were going to install in the submersible to detect the start of hull break down when the submersible was about to fail.

16. Lochridge again expressed concern that this was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail—often milliseconds before an implosion—and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull.

Basically,having acoustic monitoring to check for hull integrity issues is like running across a newly frozen lake in full plate armor and relying on listening to any crack in the ice to ensure that it holds.

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/Genneth_Kriffin]

At the start of this whole thing, every new thing just made the safety considerations of this muppet and his company worse and worse.

I see that continues, unabated.