JohnnyAppleseed on Nostr: Something I realized the other day is that the Titan Submersible was probably ...
Something I realized the other day is that the Titan Submersible was probably tube-shaped in its design so more people could fit inside it at the expense of safety.
Because every other submersible that goes to great depths (the wreck of the Titanic, ~12,000 feet down, or the Marianas Trench, 36,000 ft. down) has a spherical compartment for the passengers/pilot. The sub might not be a sphere, but the part that has to resist all the external pressure to keep the occupants alive is a sphere. Generally these spheres are made out of some titanium-containing steel alloy.
The CEO of OceanGate probably went with his untested and concerning "Carbon fiber tube with titanium-steel caps"-design so he could take as many people down at once.
tl;dr The OceanGate sub likely imploded because the design prioritized maximizing passenger capacity over being structurally sound.
Because every other submersible that goes to great depths (the wreck of the Titanic, ~12,000 feet down, or the Marianas Trench, 36,000 ft. down) has a spherical compartment for the passengers/pilot. The sub might not be a sphere, but the part that has to resist all the external pressure to keep the occupants alive is a sphere. Generally these spheres are made out of some titanium-containing steel alloy.
The CEO of OceanGate probably went with his untested and concerning "Carbon fiber tube with titanium-steel caps"-design so he could take as many people down at once.
tl;dr The OceanGate sub likely imploded because the design prioritized maximizing passenger capacity over being structurally sound.