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?

[classic33]

Heads are gonna roll, regardless, but once these f***ers have served their time/paid their fines, they will just start something else equally dangerous to lure in bored wealthy people instead 🤷

He, Stockton Rush, won't be starting anything else.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

He, Stockton Rush, won't be starting anything else.

Yes, but others will.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Yes, but others will.

Very very unlikely.

The public knows the risks now, so I guess certification will be mandated all across international waters, but even if in future there was an uncertified one, nobody would use it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Very very unlikely.

The public knows the risks now, so I guess certification will be mandated all across international waters, but even in future there was an uncertified one, nobody would use it.

So instead of unsafe submarines we'll have unsafe flying machines or something else to watch wealthy people die while publicly trying to find some kind of meaning in their lives.

 

[Jameshow]

Turns out that Stockton Rush had a BEng in aerospace engineering. Which means he would have had near enough the exact same basic grounding in physics, maths, engineering science and materials technology that I had.

Also turns out one of the reasons he used CFRP for the sub's primary hull is that it was cheaper to make than the industry-standard steel structure.

In my opinion, that's shifted him from "rich plonker" to "dangerous idiot"

Read about it HERE on the BBC news website.

Crazy to use cfrp instead of steel in that environment. Aviation, F1, America's cup, use CF but not in a sub!!

Also a cylinder? I guess he wanted to drive it rather than be dropped like the ocean trench subs? But a egg shape would have been a preferable shape tbh.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Crazy to use cfrp instead of steel in that environment. Aviation, F1, America's cup, use CF but not in a sub!!

Also a cylinder? I guess he wanted to drive it rather than be dropped like the ocean trench subs? But a egg shape would have been a preferable shape tbh.

I'm going to wager that a cylinder was the cheapest to produce.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Crazy to use cfrp instead of steel in that environment. Aviation, F1, America's cup, use CF but not in a sub!!

Also a cylinder? I guess he wanted to drive it rather than be dropped like the ocean trench subs? But a egg shape would have been a preferable shape tbh.

As I understand it, the choice of cylindrical was made so that they could get more people in.

Had they gone fro the traditional sphere for the number of passengers they aimed for, the size would have meant extra thickness, which would have added way too much weight. I reckon the numbers they wanted in was related to profits though.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

So instead of unsafe submarines we'll have unsafe flying machines or something else to watch wealthy people die while publicly trying to find some kind of meaning in their lives.

Whatabout what?

There was a loophole in the regulations. It existed because nobody from that ultra-deep exploration community would dream of doing what Mr Rush did. He was a true outlyer - I think it will be fixed, as I said, but even if not, nobody will board as a paying passenger without due diligence (indeed Ross Kemp's Production Company said no to using this for a documentary with him)

 

[Bonefish Blues]

As I understand it, the choice of cylindrical was made so that they could get more people in.

Had they gone fro the traditional sphere for the number of passengers they aimed for, the size would have meant extra thickness, which would have added way too much weight. I reckon the numbers they wanted in was related to profits though.

Interesting differences of opinion out there - I have heard it said that they did do some scientific work, and passengers were to fund it, but I'm sceptical, I must say.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Interesting differences of opinion out there - I have heard it said that they did do some scientific work, and passengers were to fund it, but I'm sceptical, I must say.

Unless my memory is playing up (again) it was what he said on on one of his clips on line I believe.

I certainly wouldn't swear to that, or argue if someone corrects it though, as I have ploughed through a few to try and make sense of it.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Unless my memory is playing up (again) it was what he said on on one of his clips on line I believe.

I certainly wouldn't swear to that, or argue if someone corrects it though, as I have ploughed through a few to try and make sense of it.

I saw it repeated by what's considered a reliable source - I'll dig out the Youtube when I have a moment, which ranges quite widely, but majors on the 'search'.

 

[Mike_P]

Apparently the son took a Rubik's cube with him, hopefully that's not a reason for a dive to try to find it.

 

[icowden]

Apparently the son took a Rubik's cube with him, hopefully that's not a reason for a dive to try to find it.

It's probably dust. An explanation by an expert suggested that death would have been instantaneous and the speed of the collapse and pressures involved meant that anything inside the sub would have been instantly combusted. On the plus side, the passengers would not have known or felt anything.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I saw it repeated by what's considered a reliable source - I'll dig out the Youtube when I have a moment, which ranges quite widely, but majors on the 'search'.

If you're talking of the passengers effectively help fund the science, I don't think there is any doubt that was the claim. I think there are a few questions on the extent of the 'science' though.

 

[Beebo]

So instead of unsafe submarines we'll have unsafe flying machines or something else to watch wealthy people die while publicly trying to find some kind of meaning in their lives.

One test pilot has already died in a Virgin Galatic flight.
Space tourism is bound to be very dangerous. Especially if craft are reused on a fast turn around.