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OceanGate co-founder organising trip to one of world’s deepest sinkholes a year after Titan disaster
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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Sounds like this sinkhole is a non-trivial dive, but depth-wise it's only 200 meters. Pressure vessel engineering should not be the limiting factor. Also, for whatever reason, this guy left OceanGate in 2013.
If they use CF composites again, it doesn’t matter. They have a limited lifespan and will eventually fail from the load cycles of diving and coming back up.
Which is why nobody else uses CF in pressure hulls. It’s a ticking time bomb with no way to properly validate integrity.
They won't. They will use two Triton submersibles, the market leader that builds submersibles for a long time. They are not going to build their own fever dream.
Not to mention the Expedition leader left Ocean gate over 10 years ago.
This is not interesting at all and is click bait that shouldn't even make the news section.
I mean... If I was gonna.,... I'd use triton, too.
We can hope they fall behind maintenance schedules, though. (Also, the last one was their own fever dream... made of CF. Just saying.)
I figured something was odd when the expedition page didn't have pictures of the submersible on it, and just mention it in one sentence somewhere.
Edit: Waybackmachine Was a relevation
Also:
I think I take back my initial statement
For anyone curious Here is Triton's website
And photos of few. The first is meant to go straight to the bottom.
That's a bit different depth than the Titanic at 12K feet.