This tiny submarine 2.4 miles under the sea, visiting the relics of RMS Titanic. Can it be found and the crew saved before the air runs out?

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rockyroller said:
brings to mind tests on tanker trucks & rail cars that I had seen some time ago


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And they are very low pressure differentials, compared to being surround by water at around 3,700m depth.
 
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Bonefish Blues said:
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Is there anything else that lays up 5 inches of CF, and then puts it under compression we know of? (Genuine Q - I don't know)

At least the steel bit is well-proven and tested and tried and safe.
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Yeah, you end up with something that looks a lot like the structure of cross-ply tyres. Although likely there would also have been layers of chopped strand mat incorporated as well.

TBH, I don't know either. My background is applications relating to racing car monocoques and crash structures. :blush:
 
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grldtnr said:
I think it's obscene that this was essentially a 'tourist' trip, to me it's like any of the wartime wrecks , where vessels or aircraft, even buildings become Graves,due to enemy or peacetime incidents.
It's a burial site and ought to be left in peace out of respect for the dead.
There is perhaps some legitimacy in research purposes, but to go down there just to gongoolzle is wrong.
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As I mentioned upthread, by the same ligic it also wrong to visit Verdun, the Vassa, Mary Rose, Anne Frank's house, Paschendale, or Auschwitz
 
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Milzy said:
Or the local church yard cemetery. Respect their grave site. Stay away!!!!
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Interestingly there's a big cemetery where I live and I often go and wander around. It's partly overgrown and partly managed. It's a peaceful place in the middle of the city. Sometimes I end up getting home and researching into the history of people buried there.

It is quite dangerous to get there as I have to cross several roads. I have not yet imploded on the way.
 
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Dogtrousers said:
Interestingly there's a big cemetery where I live and I often go and wander around. It's partly overgrown and partly managed. It's a peaceful place in the middle of the city. Sometimes I end up getting home and researching into the history of people buried there.

It is quite dangerous to get there as I have to cross several roads. I have not yet imploded on the way.
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Do you charge £200k to guide tourists?
If not you are missing a trick here.
Get them sign a waiver to make it sound really daring.
 
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Profpointy said:
As I mentioned upthread, by the same ligic it also wrong to visit Verdun, the Vassa, Mary Rose, Anne Frank's house, Paschendale, or Auschwitz
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I'm not sure it is. With the exception of the Mary Rose, and perhaps Anne Frank's house, I think the majority visit to understand or "feel" a part of our very recent history. There is in my experience a hushed reverence and respect shown in these places.
 
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Drago said:
Let's be honest though, people visiting those aforementioned sights tend not to leave the place littered with their corpses and the crushed remains of their vehicles.
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It has been known for scuba divers, and whilst trying not to be flippant, as I can see it is different (sort of) but I dare say more visitors have died of mundane causes visiting the famous sites above, than the minuscule numbers who are ever going to be involved with the titanic. And it's hard to not be macabre, a few more bits
of steel and bodies are hardly going to impact the thousands of tons of steel and thousands of lost passengers already there.

This all does rather sound like "things I don't do should be banned". The Daily Mail would likely ban cycling citing similar argumenta
 
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PaulSB said:
I'm not sure it is. With the exception of the Mary Rose, and perhaps Anne Frank's house, I think the majority visit to understand or "feel" a part of our very recent history. There is in my experience a hushed reverence and respect shown in these places.
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I've dived the Leopoldsville, a hospital ship, formerly a liner mined in 1944 with huge loss of life as most on board were the wounded. Whilst it was a huge and spectacular sight, likely similar sized as Titanic, it wa also
a likewise a somber place to visit, and a technical challenge, albeit not remotely as much as Titanic. I like to think I was respectful, and hope and believe I was not wrong in diving on it. The link with relatively recent history was very powerful and a reminder of the sacrifices and loss which helped finally stop the nazis
 
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