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Oh, come on. Now that you've shared that it happened, you HAVE to show us so that we can warn the newbies about the monster in our midst.





The tension that prevents buckling under external pressure is circumferential, on the inside of the cylinder.Vanadium 50 said:The problem is that it might buckle. That has compression on one side and tension on the other.
Paywalljedishrfu said:Latest from WIRED on the OceanGate tragedy:
https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/
I got in without paying.phinds said:Paywall
Wired said:...
IT WAS TIME for the engineers to hand it over to OceanGate’s operations team for testing at sea. But there was another snag. David Lochridge, who oversaw marine operations at the company and who needed to sign off on the transfer, became convinced that Titan was unsafe. In January 2018, Lochridge sent Rush a quality-control inspection report detailing 27 issues with the vehicle, from questionable O-ring seals on the domes and missing bolts to flammable materials and more concerns about its carbon-fiber hull. Rush fired him the next day. (Although Lochridge later made a whistleblower report to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about Titan, Rush sued him for breach of contract. The settlement of that lawsuit resulted in Lochridge dropping his complaint, paying OceanGate nearly $10,000, and signing an NDA. Lochridge did not respond to WIRED.)
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Several former employees said they were neither shocked nor surprised at OceanGate’s deadly accident. Three had left the company on safety grounds, and two separately described Titan as a ticking time bomb.
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I had to read that a few times. Sounds like a case of "rich guy has better lawyers" rather than justice.Rush sued him for breach of contract. The settlement of that lawsuit resulted in Lochridge dropping his complaint, paying OceanGate nearly $10,000, and signing an NDA.
Seen that attitude, and not just once.... This guy just had more money, bigger say in the company - and more victims....OmCheeto said:Don't like what the engineers say? Fire them and then sue them if they mention it, even if they did it via proper channels.
A purported log of the Titan submersible crew's final words has reportedly been deemed fake.
A federal team of investigators “found no evidence” that the five people onboard the Titan sub on June 18, 2023 were aware of the pending implosion, according to The New York Times.
The transcript, which began circulating online just days after the submersible went missing in the Atlantic Ocean, offered a detailed timeline of the supposed events and conversations leading up to the implosion.
“I’m confident it’s a false transcript,” said Captain Jason Neubauer, a retired member of the U.S. Coast Guard who serves as chairman of the Marine Board of Investigation. “It was made up.”
federal investigators obtained records of the real communications between the submersible and the Polar Prince, which apparently disprove the viral transcript’s accuracy.
“Somebody did it well enough to make it look plausible,” Neubauer said.
Linking to something specific accomplishes at least two things:Rive said:Youtube is full of the stuff, so I think linking would be just unnecessary.
I could not find either the original release nor a worthy secondary source, so with just a notice I left it for the participants to start picking by their own interest.DaveC426913 said:presumably .... weeding out the bunk
pinball1970 said:There is two weeks of the hearing to go, the BBC summarises here. Some footage and also the last text messages which give no indication of anything amiss.
NBC may be better.Tom.G said:See the EDIT below.
Could you verify/correct that youtube link?
youtube does not recognize that link, a youtube search shows "not found."
Google returns something in Russian.
[EDIT] It showed up in this post as a playing image; yet your post (and all previous youtube links) shows up as a white triangle inside a Red rectangle!
[EDIT 2] Now, this post is back to White triangle inside Red rectangle.
Curiouser and Curiouser.
I suspect the poldergeists & gremlins are playing with us!
[EDIT 3] Arrrgh! A screen refresh turns youtube links back to the triangle/rectangle. I think I'll give up trying to understand it.![]()