IMO all rescue ships should return home immediately, and if there is any other exploratory work to do, it is on OceanGate. The question has been answered and there is nothing more to be done.It does. However it is entirely possible ,also likely we will never know the truth on either the submericible or why it failed,What the owner was thinking .or why the crew didnt call for help in the almost 4 hours before they did.
I do not lack sympathy ,I want to know why 5 people who want to explore dangerous places with their private money warrent such a great SAR price tag when children who were last seen at school ,put such a burdened cost on their local counties?
Choices and risk v/s not a choice and why a risk?
We expect poor people in hurricanes to protect themselfs better than this to the point where if they dont leave their own homes ,no rescue services will be available . Yet... this ..completely preventable joy ride disater is shouldered by tax payers?
"The outpouring of support in this highly complex search operation has been robust and immensely appreciated. We are grateful for the rapid mobilization of experts on the undersea search and rescue, and we thank all of the agencies and personnel for their role in the response. We're also incredibly grateful for the full spectrum of international assistance that's been provided," he said Thursday.
Asked about retrieving the bodies, he says "This is an incredibly unforgiving environment" consistent with a catastrophic incident.
He implies that they won't be able to MOO.
IMO all rescue ships should return home immediately, and if there is any other exploratory work to do, it is on OceanGate. The question has been answered and there is nothing more to be done.
Yep, so the two titanium domes were found, and recognisable as such. I guessed if anything was going to be recognisable or in a piece larger than a matchbox, it would have been those.5 major pieces of debris of the OceanGate Titan were found -- including a nose cone, front end bell of pressure hull, aft end bell of the pressure hull. It was likely a catastrophic implosion.
The initial thing we found was the nose cone... then we found a large debris field. Within that large debris field, we found the front end bell of the pressure hull. That was the first indication that there was a catastrophic event.
Shortly after, we found a second smaller debris field within that debris field. We found the other end of the press hull that…basically comprised of the totality of that pressure chamber...
We will do our best to fully map out what’s down there.
If it imploded, the only things that are going to float back up would be exterior objects that were either buoyant or inherently hollow but high strength: Maybe an LED light or similar? MOO and Depends on how the periphery items came apart...
Did a little look into Titanium and Carbon Fiber. Titanium has about the same tensile and compressive yield strength as the better stainless steel alloys but is 40% of the weight, per unit volume. Problem is: its brittle at its ultimate strength. Carbon Fiber can be a made a lot of different ways but essentially consists of high strength fibers bound by some polymer; and weighs about 18% of steel. Either material is "elongation brittle" in material terms: carbon fiber samples fracture at around 3 to 4% strain and high grade titanium at less than 3%.
SO: Here's how a ductile (Mild Steel) horizontal cylinder implodes at low pressure differences....pretty quick for the cylinder portion, the heads at each end near survive. Consider though: when the collapse occurs, the reduction in volume of the containment would cause the internal pressure to increase, thus the pressure difference decreases....
With the infinite volume and depth of the ocean: the rise in internal pressure would occur in the order of 1/900 of a second and with brittle material, the cylinder would collapse inward and fracture. Should it occur that there was some air trapped at one spot, there would be a second collapse as that air pocket condensed...presuming the hull was ruptured by the first collapse, the pieces may or may not be dislodged or otherwise effected by the second collapse.
I would guess thought that some pieces of carbon fiber would be projected and spread around. Whereas I believe the titanium heads may be distorted but largely recognizable.
MOO and I'm sure some images will be forthcoming.