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That did not happen to the gentlemen submersibers. The submersibers were exposed to much more pressure, much faster, and from all sides. In particular, they weren't wearing one atmosphere diving helmets they could get squished into. Their heads and bodies got the same 300 atmospheres at the same time, so no pressure difference to squish one into the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
I've never seen this, anyone else?
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
The window cracking story at the end of the scroll would make my ear hairs stand up IRL.
Fucking adhesive. They had the money to mill the entire thing from ti, why did they not do that. Heuristics.
they shoulda used aquaseal, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax
Just came here to say that would be sexy as shit. Also expensive as shit, did they really have that much money? Can you even buy a chunk of ti that size?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax
Good rant, he's wrong about the viewport, but good rant. "what is it with these people and TUBES?!?!?!" I lol'd.Quote:
Originally Posted by seano732
I'm thiking of arctic adventure polar bear tube. We fly a tube in with a sikorsky (sp?) and let billionaires live in the tube for a week. what about rainforest tube? all the experience of the rainforest but from inside a spider and snake proof tube?! What about like a ghetto tube, see the ghetto without the risk of crime from the comfort of a tube. Golden Corral Tube Adventure? 4 star meal from inside a tube at the ol GC? an interest? "Sack Lunch Area Tube" - eat overpriced pizza wile inside a tube while observing the sack lunchers at Vail?
Most of those just sound like a first class luxury train.
The Family Truckster is already that ghetto-tube, but maybe they use a more modern RS6Avant version to keep things as civil as possible? (My God, did someone actually do this to an RS6Avant?!?)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jong Lafitte
https://i.gaw.to/content/photos/46/8...erait-fier.jpg
Like the raciest Seinfeld joke of all timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Jong Lafitte
That’s the best thing I’ve seen in a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
“Excuse me Holmes..”
Pretty sure you’d want to serve tubed meats inside these tubes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jong Lafitte
You don’t think I’m packing 15 lbs of propane into an oxygen rich environment so that I can heat up ramen now do ya? Beer Brats for everyone!!! Or, Italian sausage grinder. This plan keeps getting better all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
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Maybe this has been posted already, found it a few comments down from the tube rant dude.
The man himself :"I've broken some rules" and "carbon fiber and titanium, there's a rule you don't do that, well I did"
https://twitter.com/i/status/1671963491249299463
'Glued together' is a bit of a dog whistle. Contemporary boat, plane, and automobile construction uses 'glues.' Same with the carbon fiber lay up; weave direction can vary even when the lay up doesn't. Do those details matter here? Probably not given the shortcuts this guy was hell-bent on taking.
"You're remembered for the rules you break". Yep, you'll go down in history as an idiot that ignored well tested engineering, thought you could do better and it only cost your life and the lives of several others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jax
I wonder how the communication director of oceangate is handling questions about these broken rules and mistakes made....let me see who that is....oh. The CD is the CEOs wife, Wendy.Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
She is probably not in a good head space right now, jokes aside.
True, but failure also comes along the path forward. There's always someone who will say it won't work or you're doing it wrong. Obviously the knownothings and MMQB's will say it's wrong, but you can also find an expert to tell you "no." Hopefully you find expert support too.Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
I think you meant to say purview not purlieu my good sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
They just did the SAR stuff we fund the USCG to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
They did it well: they organized a multi-agency, multi-nationality response a minimum of 400 NM out to sea, no one else died, they completed their search and found the sub and in the meantime they managed the public speculation about the status of the sub while they didn't have complete information. Textbook USCG.
A truly incredible training opportunity in any case, and that has immense value.
I just hope those passengers didn't choose the suggested minimum tip prior to submerging.
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldnew_guy
Textbook consummate professionals.
well playedQuote:
Originally Posted by pfluffenmeister
I’m constantly impressed with how well the USCG does its job day in day out and most of the time completely under the radar or out of the evening news.
In just one day last week I saw them respond and recover a stranded pleasure vessel (idiot boaters on the ICW without a clue as to the tides) and then that afternoon clear the beaches without complaint or issue when four or five shark went chasing a couple bait balls down the shoreline.
The cold water rescues I’ve seen on the Great Lakes are insane as well, never mind what they do in way worse environments.
I wandered down to the CG Academy one afternoon when visiting my sister at her college down the road (she was sailing against them, and thankfully won that day lol); very cool spot.
Ahem.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionar...o%20a%20forest.
You can use the noun purlieu for any outlying or nearby areas, or even to mean "usual haunts," like the used record shops and cafes where you and your friends normally hang out.
Sometimes?!Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
If anyone here has amazon prime, the book “Deep” by James Nestor is free to read and has a chapter about these super deep depths, the visibility and such. It was a good read all around
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Freedivi...4-0c5b33307349
Those slimy bastages.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Speaking of the Deep, at age 14 I was a very enthusiastic viewer and really appreciated the very fine acting abilities of Jaqueline Bisset.Quote:
Originally Posted by babybear
Edward Smith to the courtesy phone please.Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
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"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope that the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny that he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned. That is the phantasmagoria that haunts his nights and dogs his days."Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
- Herbert Hoover
Something tells me there was no such person working at that company. I hope not, anyway. Knowing what the boss was doing would be like suffocating in the sub after the controller batteries died. Better the implosion comes through faster than the (old) speed of sound.
"Once upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."
-Herbert Hoover
Near, far, wherever you are.... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b7a74350d7.jpg
This has most likely already been posted here but just in case it hasn’t - some interesting commentary from James Cameron
Bmills we share different impressions of the uscg.
I can respect that. I’m only going off what I’ve seen personally and my interactions with them.
Unfortunately the same, but it’s been a while so hopefully lessons learned.
pictures would helpQuote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian