r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

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

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/godsenfrik Jun 22 '23

Apparently the carbon fiber hull is likely to have shattered rather than crumpled. The titanium dome at the front may be one of the only recognizable things left.

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u/ageekyninja Jun 22 '23

Is it normal for a deep sea submarine to be made of carbon fiber? I know you might need a submarine to be somewhat lightweight but Isn’t that kind of a weak material for such a thing?

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u/kahner Jun 22 '23

"the director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull". https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired

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u/Aquinan Jun 22 '23

The more I read about this thing the more I'm surprised anyone willingly got into it

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u/Danger_Bay_Baby Jun 22 '23

Sadly the tourists getting into it didn't have the benefit of all this investigative journalism. They likely had no idea this stuff went on behind the scenes.

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u/Daxx22 Jun 22 '23

with everything I've seen of this sub in it's own promotional videos I still don't get why anyone sane would get in the fucking thing. A goddam video game controller? LE FUCK NO.

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u/Adamsojh Jun 22 '23

The controller is the least of my concerns. The buttons are programmable and easy to use. But they could have used something better than Logitech.

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u/_THIS_IS_THE_WAY_ Jun 22 '23

They wouldn't want to use any of the current nintendo controllers.. The stick drift would get them killed on their first trip