Titan submersible

[Lazarus]

That's very interesting.
Thanks for that Baron.

Would you agree that that's possibly why someone like Mr Rush, who would be well aware of all of he above, refused to allow his admittedly experimental hull design to be classed, rated and certified?

[Lazarus]

https://www.peopleworld.co.uk/influence ... er-4194575

[straightshooter]

Who could have possibly anticipated that 'risk taking' actually carries risks?

[Lazarus]

Who could have possibly anticipated that 'risk taking' actually carries risks?

FAAFO

[wanneroo]

26 min video shot only days before that pretty much shows that this contraption really did have a few issues, skip to the 11 min mark to see what happened on the 3rd mission. Scary stuff but this thing wasnt sea worthy

https://youtu.be/O-8U08yJlb8

Looks like a piece of crap and why people would want to risk themselves in some little tube they can't even stand up in to have a look at some old shipwreck is beyond me. This I put in the retarded category with climbing Mt. Everest and what a deadly joke that has become.

[womble]

Agree .
5 days ago I couldn’t even spell submarine. The limit of my knowledge was a song by the Beatles .
Yet still I wouldn’t hop in that POS and believe for a second it could dive 4km under water.

Today I am one of the world’s leading experts on building submarines and can say with confidence I was right.

[bigrich]

Agree .
5 days ago I couldn’t even spell submarine. The limit of my knowledge was a song by the Beatles .
Yet still I wouldn’t hop in that POS and believe for a second it could dive 4km under water.

Today I am one of the world’s leading experts on building submarines and can say with confidence I was right.

your a bad influence womble , i'm going to listen to sgt peppers right now on the turntable

hope the yellow submarine doesn't implode , beatle juice everywhere

don't mean to digress but does anyone remember seeing "the yellow submarine" beatles movie ? man those guys must've been into some wild drugs there's some cops around that definately are "blue meanies"

[Baronvonrort]

That's very interesting.
Thanks for that Baron.

Would you agree that that's possibly why someone like Mr Rush, who would be well aware of all of he above, refused to allow his admittedly experimental hull design to be classed, rated and certified?

Aerospace and Aeronautical enginners specialise in lightwieght structures Mr Rush did work on F15 program with US Air Force.
Colin Chapman from Lotus Formula One fame built really light cars that failed at times killing drivers.
I can understand why Mr Rush did what he did.

Which classification society was going to certify it you have American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) LLoyds, Veritas to name a few when stuff all if any commercial shipping are built from Carbon Fibre and very little written about it in their specifications?

I know of a few certified passenger boats that were going to be built in Carbon Fibre they didn't use it because the regulations meant skin thickness would have to be much thicker so they went with E Glass to satisfy the rules. The boats turned out much heavier less payload were cheaper they were certified so they could be insured.

Mr Rush had valid concerns with classification societies and carbon fibre they havn't kept up they're a bit outdated with this material.

The ship that took the sub out to Titanic had to be certified with ABS, Lloyds,Veritas etc as it's a commercial ship operating from Canada. The sub was operating in International waters so not required to be certified.

The Factor of Safety was way to low. The first Carbon fibre sub built for Steve Fosset was only meant to be used once to set records then put in a museum.

As the saying goes- Amateur built the Ark Professionals built the Titanic

[Oldbloke]

Retrieving wreckage already.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66045554

[Oldbloke]

This bloke explains a lot about what was likely reason(s) for this tragedy.

https://youtu.be/TKLamhyJ6bE

[womble]

Yep nobody suggests killer whales because they're black.
If it was a blue whale or a pilot whale it would be all over the media

[bigrich]

Who could have possibly anticipated that 'risk taking' actually carries risks?

that statement can be applied to lots of dumb@rses lacking common sense in this modern world . like the hippy/lefty uni teacher couple who went to iran to film the country and people tell the truth about how the guvment there isn't all bad . they got arrested for filming and flying a drone and have been imprisoned to be used as political pawns . who'd have thunk it they shoulda been smarter and visited north korea instead

[womble]

Or humpback whale. Could have mounted it and just jack hammered it into to ocean floor.