r/interestingasfuck • u/ThugLeeVoguee • 1d ago

The implosion of the Titan submarine (OceanGate) was so rapid that the pain wasn't even registered by the brain. They didn't feel anything at all. Utterly instantaneous.

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

Anybody who knew anything at all about high pressure and the amount of energy that can be stored then released knew it was absolute malarkey. 

I mean nobody assumes that they could sit inside of a gigantic cannon and be fired Looney Tunes style and survive.

This was about the equivalent. 

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 1d ago

Ok but the hope wasn’t that they survived an implosion, the hope was that their comms or mobility were hampered. Anybody that was smugly claiming the oxygen timer was meaningless was doing the classic Reddit behavior of only considering one aspect of a situation then confidently proclaiming their opinion to be fact.

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u/smeilistinkysnake 1d ago

Fr I don’t get it, no one in the world thought if they imploded they’d be alive until the oxygen ran out, that doesn’t even make sense. Obviously the counter was because we didn’t know if they imploded or not.

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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 1d ago

Eh idk, im a good swimmer, i think I woulda gotten out of it just fine

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u/Dan_The_PaniniMan 1d ago

ehh I could do a depth of 3000m, but 3800m might be pushing it

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u/oily76 1d ago

I believe you, I saw it in that documentary 'Meg 2 - The Trench'.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 22h ago

i think I woulda gotten out of it just as fine particles

FTFY XD

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u/rust-e-apples1 23h ago

Clearly just built different.

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u/buzzfuzzcuzz79 7h ago

My toddler told me that while at Pearl Harbor and the uss arizona when I explained where we were and what happened lol

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u/DifferentManagement1 1d ago

They knew. US military heard the implosion when it happened.

There is video of Titan employees also hearing the implosion and you can absolutely tell the one guy knew

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u/kashy87 1d ago

People who are trained to listen to SONAR know the implosion sound. It's one of those oddly terrifying things to hear in the wild. That and creaking doors from shipwrecks.

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u/Typical_Term937 23h ago

Yeah, cool story bro, because that's what you routinely hear when you're trained to listen to sonar: the good ol' sound of a carbon fibre sub imploding. "Oddly terrifying" for sure! Man, Reddit is such a bullshit aggregator, I can't even...

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u/Aegi 19h ago

Why are you asserting that the material of the container changes the sound so much as to be unreco0gnizeabke between two implosions?

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u/kashy87 12h ago

Because they e never done a pair of headphones at a depth of several hundred feet or even surface side. There are recordings the trainers enjoy throwing into training just to fuck with the newbies.

Mine happened to enjoy having random torpedoes show up some from nowhere in the sim. Just to see if I was paying attention.

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u/lapetitthrowaway 1d ago

Only kinda true, they knew when they went back and looked after they knew what they were looking for. It wasn’t detected initially.

Source: Flew P3s searching with sonobuoys and heard the knocking reported with my own ears.

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u/MartialSpark 23h ago

On top of that, I don't think that information was released to the public anyway right? At least not initially.

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u/lapetitthrowaway 22h ago

It wasn’t supposed to be released… but it got out there pretty quickly.

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u/smeilistinkysnake 1d ago

Yea I get it I’ve seen the video. But we’re human ofc we are going to want more than just audio when there could be people stuck completely out of contact down there.

I just can’t fathom the harm in continuing the search and putting the timer out there when we don’t have visual confirmation. Do people think civilians time was wasted going out to look for the sub or something lol.

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u/Impressive_Pin8761 1d ago

i think the outrage is a combination of

-misinformation spread by the news outlets that the passengers were alive well after audio confirmation of their death

-general hate against billionaires clashes with the agenda the outlets were trying to push that yes these evil people are still alive and yes we are diverting humanitarian resources to get them out of the hellhole they dug themselves into

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u/velawesomeraptors 1d ago

There's people who would be pretty sure that they heard an implosion, but it's definitely something you'd want to double check before announcing.

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u/Syntaxlies 1d ago edited 23h ago

Obviously the counter was because we didn’t know if they imploded or not.

Experts concluded it was an implosion the same day the sub went missing. A loud bang consistent with an implosion shockwave was heard at the same time the sub lost communications with the ship. The sub also simultaneously lost tracking which is a separate system from comms. For both of these to go out simultaneously, and for the sub to not resurface after it was expected to, it meant a catastrophic failure of the submarine.

What's not clear is if these details were intentionally withheld from the media, or if the media withheld them from the public because it made for a better story. But it was definitely known to those in the loop what really happened.

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u/Objective_Form_2974 23h ago

Funny enough I made a similar statement at thr time on the oceangatetitan sub and got banned 😅

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u/OhSixTJ 1d ago

A few redditors seemed to think that, it seems.

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u/nightimestars 21h ago

The counter was just for morbid sensationalism. Even if they were just sitting at the bottom from some malfunction, there was almost no chance of rescue before they suffocated or froze to death anyways. The countdown just seems inhumane.

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u/eerst 1d ago

Didn't the surface craft detect the sonar ping of an implosion? I feel like we all knew.

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u/YouKnown999 1d ago

That was revealed later on.

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u/smurf123_123 1d ago

The sound reverberated thought the vessel, they didn't realise it right away but it has to have dawned on them at some point.

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u/NullContext42 1d ago

There’s a video of the crew receiving that signal. Iirc there 3 people there, and 2 of them look at each other like they know what just happened, while the other just kept working

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u/smurf123_123 1d ago

His wife was the one that didn't clue in.

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u/Sad_Pattern_220 1d ago

She was just as delusional as he was. Just a smile on her face the entire time

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u/PasswordisPurrito 1d ago

They didn't have any evidence of the implosion. What they did was hear a bang, and wonder what it was, the footage is available online. It's the type of noise that in hindsight we can tell what it is. But it's not the type of noise, where you just lose all hope.

That being said, I think most people figured that the submersible wasn't coming up, but humans are kind of wired to act like there is hope until there is concrete proof otherwise.

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u/Montjo17 1d ago

They did. They had the audible ping, and the fact that the sub lost two separate systems in separate environments (one inside, one outside the vessel) simultaneously, and at a time that perfectly corresponded with the bang. That was very strong evidence of implosion.

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u/TMC_Data 1d ago

They were fucked every which way. There’s just not much you can do in a submarine disaster. That submarine could have been trapped 200 feet below the surface within a few miles of Newfoundland and it would have been over for them.

There’s just no viable timeline for an underwater search operation, putting the resources in place to even perform one, finding a mechanical solution to freeing a trapped sub, getting the resources in place to perform a mechanical solution, have a hastily put together mechanical solution on short notice actually work and overcoming decompression sickness. It would have been an impossible task under the best of circumstances and it occurred under the worst of circumstances.

It wasn’t smug behavior to know that there was no viable path forward.

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u/BankerOnBitcoin 1d ago edited 9h ago

Yeah but the whole thing was a farse. The Support Ship knew it was game over when they heard the bang and all comms went out. It was never in doubt that they could be floating around somewhere stuck. The media frenzy and the "search" was pointless.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 22h ago

I wondered if it was another Navy excuse to do some kind of military test/scan/manoeuvre like they did when the Titanic was found. It took them ages between the start of the S&R to actually declare them dead.

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u/_azazel_keter_ 1d ago

This. Actual engineering disasters are usually way more complicated than this, and this was the dumbest possible failure mode. It wasn't reasonable to believe unless you knew a ton about OceanGate and knew how ridiculously incompetent they were.

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u/Glittering-Coyote140 1d ago

Lol. You tell'em, danky

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

A hull made out of wildly unsuitable material  "designed" by a moron with delusions of grandeur was the only aspect that mattered. 

They said right on their website it was made of carbon fiber. And carbon fibers behavior after exposure to pressure is something that is well known. 

Anyone at all that looked at their website and saw what the sub was made out of along with the fact that it had been on multiple dives knew that it wasn't a communications failure.

That thing always had a very limited lifespan. 

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u/hedoeswhathewants 1d ago

You completely missed the point.

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u/nipsec 1d ago

Anybody who knew anything at all about high-pressure Reddit commenting knew the point had already been completely missed.

At that stage, the only sensible option was to confidently explain carbon fibre again, ignore what the other person had actually said, and declare that the one aspect you understand was the only aspect that ever mattered.

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u/dern_the_hermit 1d ago

A hull made out of wildly unsuitable material "designed" by a moron with delusions of grandeur was the only aspect that mattered.

What? The hull survived quite a few dives.

The submarine ALSO had a history of just straight-up stopping, man. Like people weren't just making up hypotheticals when they speculated shit like, I dunno, motor trouble or comm failure. Oceangate was such a shitty organization that those things happened a bunch of times, too.

I mean they controlled the thing with a video game controller. There was waaaay more going on with it than just the sketchy hull.

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u/Tntn13 1d ago

Video game controllers are good enough for the us military lol. Xbox in particular.

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u/Apexnanoman 23h ago

Yeah but they were using a Logitech controller. The Xbox controller is a hell of a lot higher quality lol. 

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u/Baptoozled 22h ago

I heard it was a MadCatz N64 controller with the semi transparent purple plastic shell. 

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u/Apexnanoman 22h ago

Logitech 710. Shaped like a PlayStation controller but probably not made to the same level of quality. 

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u/Tntn13 19h ago

Fuckin whattttttt couldn’t even get first party?!?!

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u/Apexnanoman 9h ago

Takes actual engineers and people who have any idea at all what they are doing to work with first party stuff. 

The Logitech is essentially open source. Lower quality but easier to work with. 

The the titan wasn't far from being a home brew kit bash submarine. 

Nobody with actual professional experience making subs thought it was anything but a deathtrap. Which it was. 

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u/dern_the_hermit 1d ago

If the Titan sub were a drone and not carrying passengers that'd be a solid retort

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u/Tntn13 19h ago

They’re used to operate the periscopes on Virginia class subs. Not piloting the sub, but still.

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u/Apexnanoman 23h ago

I can run out into traffic with my eyes closed and not get hit by a car an unknown number of times. 

Doesn't mean it's a good idea. 

Carbon fiber specifically is not suitable in that application. That application being under compression. 

It cracks and degrades. 

He was told repeatedly that carbon fiber wasn't suitable. He was told this by experts. 

By actual professional engineers. But he was a rich boy from an old money family. 

On top of everything else, that carbon fiber was essentially second hand rejects from Boeing. 

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u/zombiebindlestiff 1d ago

But we also found out the implosion was heard on undersea microphones by the navy. It was total bs the media and government did

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u/YouKnown999 1d ago

Public did not get that info right away and they weren’t absolutely sure that was what the sound was initially

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u/JanxDolaris 1d ago

They heard a noise. It could have been (but ultimately was) the implosion.

But what if it was something else? Would you appreciate suffocating from lack of air because people thought they heard you implode a while ago?

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u/DisastrousVideo2765 1d ago

And they were correct .

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 1d ago

Better go buy some power ball tickets with that line of reasoning.

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u/DisastrousVideo2765 1d ago

So they were incorrect?

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 1d ago

If you were worth conversing with, that wouldn’t be your follow up question. Have a good one.

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u/DisastrousVideo2765 23h ago

So the oxygen timer was meaningless.

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u/TotalACast 1d ago

I think you're missing the point. Having an oxygen timer when you're in a submarine made of carbon fiber that used a Playstation controller as the steering wheel is like wearing your seat belt on an airplane. It might make you feel safer but it literally does nothing.

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u/illegalshmillegal 1d ago

Seat belts on an airplane are not for an airplane crash, they are for turbulence and bumps and they absolutely will save your life.

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u/Stunning_Web_996 1d ago

Except wearing a seatbelt on an airplane emphatically doesn’t “do nothing”

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u/The-Senate-Palpy 1d ago

Bad analogy. Airplane seatbelts do have a major purpose. Most airplane midflight accidents that prevent continued flight still arent spiraling headfirst into a mountainside like so action movie. Way more often it ends in a bumpy landing, where you want to be buckled in so you dont split your head open while being ragdolled.

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 1d ago

I love being told I’m missing the point by someone that doesn’t even have the basic facts of the thread straight in their head before replying.

The oxygen timer in question was what the news was using as a “point of no return” in their reporting. Nobody in this thread is referring to an actual oxygen sensor on the vessel.

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u/hedoeswhathewants 1d ago

The point was that we didn't know if the airplane crashed (imploded) or hit turbulence (lost communications). The seatbelts are absolutely useful for the latter.

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u/Not-An-FBI 1d ago

The reason was that the sub was jury rigged together and to ascend they'd just try and shake some pieces of scrap metal off of hooks. So it was totally reasonable that they could get stuck at the bottom. They had the scrap metal get stuck before.

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u/Animostas 1d ago

The mechanism to get the sub out of the water was crazy to me. Like he just moves the joystick back and forth until metal comes off

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u/Gramage 1d ago

Absolutely insane. How about some actual clamps that can release the ballast? How about some sort of rapid-inflating emergency airbag things? So many options other than just… jiggling.

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u/Tomek_Hermsgavorden 1d ago

John Hammond levels of sparing no expense.

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u/marty4286 1d ago

The amount of money they spent on it could have probably built an actually good submarine, it's like they were ideologically committed to making the worst thing possible

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 22h ago

Ironically that company could've used some clever girls.

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u/Sauron_the_Deceiver 1d ago

"Move fast and break things"; I'm sure they thought they were being clever, radically innovative, and efficient.

Lol.

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u/candygram4mongo 1d ago

That only kind of works when the things you're breaking are just bits on a hard drive. When you have actual physical objects upon which people's lives depend, you do the fucking engineering review.

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u/splendidsplinter 1d ago

Not if everything I've ever read on LinkedIn is true.

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u/Big_Slope 1d ago

He was out of buttons on the Xbox controller.

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u/Both_Status_7842 1d ago

Proper release mechanism would have been better. Inflating anything at these depths would require 380 to 400 bars of pressure in reasonably sized air tanks. Which means added weight. That's also assuming you could deflate the balloons while ascending, otherwise they would just explode with the pressure dropping, and you would end up being stuck again.

Having proper water ballast would have taken too much space I suppose ? Dropping weights is overall the best course of action in this instance, but the execution was incredibly poor.

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u/Animostas 1d ago

I think the argument was that if you had something like a claw that released weights, it's just another point of failure. If the clamp locks or some plant gets tied around it or something then you're fucked. It makes sense how they arrived at jiggling free weights back and forth but the idea of doing it with a Logitech controller still sounds crazy

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u/DouchecraftCarrier 22h ago

Ideally you'd have something akin to air brakes in trucks where the actively powered mode is to hold the brakes open (or clamp down on the weights in this case). So in the case of a failure, the default state when the device is unpowered would be to drop the weights.

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u/Germanofthebored 1d ago

Considering the pressure at the bottom of the Atlantic (380 atm), there isn't really a chemical reaction that would produce a significant amount of gas. Depending on an active mechanism would mean that there is an additional failure point (The Triest actually had used electromagnets to hold on to its balast, so if the electric system failed, the craft would surface by default)

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u/dwkfym 1d ago

didnt the sub have compressed air to control bouyancy? thats how every sub does it. Which is basically 'rapid inflating emergency airbag things' you speak of, except I am not sure if you realize how much air pressure is needed to 'inflate a bag' (in this case, its actually displacing water in ballast tank)

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u/nascent_aviator 23h ago

I'm pretty sure most deep sea submersibles don't use air to control buoyancy. Under 400 atm of pressure, air gets too dense to be practical for it, and carrying weights and then dropping them is easy and cheap.

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u/nascent_aviator 23h ago

I don't think airbags would work basically at all. The pressure down there is way to high. At 3800m, 1 cubic foot of air would weigh like 14 kg. Just carrying the tanks to fill a balloon of appreciable size is going to be a serious load, to the point you'd probably just drop the tank rather than try to inflate a balloon with its contents lol.

Actual clamps for sure seem like a saner alternative though.

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u/Emotional-VroomVroom 17h ago

How about an electro magnet, so the craft would automatically drop ballast on power loss

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u/STEM-Travel 1d ago edited 1d ago

> How about some sort of rapid-inflating emergency airbag things?

Probably best to leave the engineering up to the engineers, lol… - What sort of mechanism do you imagine can rapidly inflate at that pressure?

Edit: OK, turns out most of you need a bit more handholding. Ask google, what is the pressure at the bottom of the ocean? Answer, 15000 PSI. Ask google, what pressure do we store nitrogen? Answer: 10000 PSI.

So, if the ocean is 15000 PSI, and the Gas is 10000 PSI, when you open the tank, water goes into the tank, the gas doesn’t come out. Feel free to actually do some googling and try to find a gas we store at higher PSI that Nitrogen. Most gas is stored FAR lower.

The pressure OUTSIDE is greater than the pressure INSIDE the gas cylinder.

So when you try to trigger the emergency inflate, water actually rushes INTO the gas cylinders because they’re stored at less pressure than ambient.

This is like, basic shit guys…

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u/never-fiftyone 1d ago

Speaking of engineers engineering things, there are specialized emergency buoyancy systems designed to operate in high-pressure environments. One such system was designed by Subsalve (a company that specializes in underwater inflatables and recovery systems) specifically for the Deepsea Challenger and its trip to the bottom of the Mariana's Trench. I'd probably not be so indignant of the idea given it actually exists.

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u/STEM-Travel 1d ago edited 1d ago

You are completely, 100% wrong. I suspect it would have taken far less time to discover you were wrong, than to waste my time with this comment.

Speaking of engineers engineering things, there are specialized emergency buoyancy systems designed to operate in high-pressure environments.

No, there aren’t.

One such system was designed by Subsalve (a company that specializes in underwater inflatables and recovery systems) specifically for the Deepsea Challenger and its trip to the bottom of the Mariana's Trench.

Nope. As I mentioned, from a fundamental physics standpoint, the pressure is too high, down there, to ‘inflate’ anything.

But also, there are no emergency inflation systems designed in the Deepsea Challenger. That’s sort of easy to verify by looking at the Wikipedia page?

I'd probably not be so indignant of the idea given it actually exists.

100% of the stuff you’ve posted is wrong. I’m not indignant so much as I am confident that a bachelors degree in physics means I understand how gas operates at pressure.

I truly cannot fathom being so confident and so wrong simultaneously.

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u/never-fiftyone 1d ago

lol because Wikipedia is so exhaustive and correct? Maybe you should have expanded your search beyond a single website.

https://subsalve.com/case-studies/james-camerons-deep-sea-challenger/

Subsalve provided standard products to aid in the launch and retrieval, and they developed together with the Challenger team a self contained emergency buoyancy system that included a custom pontoon and a specialized inflation source that was packaged in a confined space on the submersible.

In preparing for a record-breaking drive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, James Cameron approached Subsalve to help with two key problems. The first was to maintain safe positioning of the submersible during launch and retrieval operation and the second was to develop a back-up system to return to the surface should primary systems fail.

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u/STEM-Travel 23h ago

lol because Wikipedia is so exhaustive and correct?

you are now angry because Wikipedia says you are wrong?

Maybe you should have expanded your search beyond a single website.

lol, can you find a source on the internet other than subsalve.com that suggests the Challenger had an emergency inflation return device?

I’ll make you a deal… I’ll find a second source that states the pressure at the bottom of the ocean when you find a second source that suggests ANYTHING you’ve said about the challenger is correct.

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u/nascent_aviator 22h ago

I'm very skeptical of the picture you're painting. We have a lot of details on the emergency ways for the sub to ascend from reliable sources:

The sub will descend because of more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms) of steel weights held on to either side by electromagnets. To rise to the surface, the pilot will flip a switch, the plates of steel will fall to the ocean floor, and the lighter-than-water foam will hurtle the sub skyward. This step is critical—if the weights don’t drop, the pilot will be stuck at the bottom of the ocean. To ensure they function properly, engineers incorporated several backup systems:

If there’s a power failure or the magnets’ batteries run out, the weights will drop automatically.

The support team at the surface can command the weights to drop via an acoustic command.

A special wire (galvanic timed release) helps connect the weights to the sub; it will corrode after about 11 to 13 hours in seawater.

Cameron can power up something called a “frangibolt,” which uses heat to break the bolts that keep the weight-drop mechanism in place, thus jettisoning the whole assembly.

Nothing about emergency inflation, which is, if not impossible, at least wildly impractical at such depths. Air is nearly as dense as water at those depths (only "nearly" instead of "denser" because the gas molecules are packed so tightly together they stop acting like an ideal gas).

Note that in your link it doesn't say that "a self contained emergency buoyancy system that included a custom pontoon and a specialized inflation source that was packaged in a confined space on the submersible" and "a back-up system to return to the surface should primary systems fail" are the same thing.

It seems likely that Subsalve helped develop one of the emergency systems mentioned above, and that the "self contained emergency buoyancy system" was for floatation on the surface, not for emergency. Far more likely than them making a marvel of engineering that nobody talks about for some reason.

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u/defaulticus 23h ago

Ask google, what pressure do we store nitrogen? Answer: 10000 PSI.

We can store it at any pressure. Google is presumably just giving you the standard pressure available in cylinders from the likes of Praxair, Airgas, etc. If you're building a submersible to conquer the Challenger Deep, you can build a custom pressure vessel that works at some other pressure. If it were my design, I'd use cryogenically liquefied helium and heat it up to vaporize it if the emergency ascent device were needed. That way, if you lost power, it'd eventually boil and inflate on its own causing the submersible to surface.

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u/STEM-Travel 21h ago

We can store it at any pressure.

lol

If it were my design, I'd use cryogenically liquefied helium and heat it up to vaporize it if the emergency ascent device were needed.

That won’t work. That’s literally what I’ve been saying repeatedly.

The pressure is so great, at the bottom of the ocean, that you CANNOT maintain a gas of ANY sort. It’s impossible.

You understand that a gas like helium is liquid under a huge pressure. That’s why you said cryogenic.

The pressure at the bottom of the ocean keeps the helium in a liquid state. No matter how warm you got it.

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u/defaulticus 20h ago

That's flat out incorrect. Helium is a gas at room temperature even at 110 MPa. It can't even be a liquid above like 5.2 kelvin. It becomes a supercritical fluid if you pressurize it enough (which, okay, is what it is at 273 kelvin and 1100 bars of pressure).

Anyway its got a density of like 15 or 20 kilograms per cubic meter at 110 MPa which is 2% of the density of water, and 10% of its own density in liquid phase, so whether you consider that to be a liquid or a gas or a supercritical fluid doesn't matter, it would displace 10x its original volume in water and be buoyant.

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u/STEM-Travel 19h ago edited 19h ago

That's flat out incorrect.

Lo fucking l.

Why are you wasting my time if you can’t even get pressure and temperature straight?

It becomes a supercritical fluid if you pressurize it enough (which, okay, is what it is at 273 kelvin and 1100 bars of pressure).

This is literally my point? No gasses at those pressures. Why are you wasting my time?

so whether you consider that to be a liquid or a gas or a supercritical fluid doesn't matter.

Only one of those words is accurate.

it would displace 10x its original volume in water and be buoyant.

Yes! Duh? Many things are more buoyant than water

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u/defaulticus 19h ago edited 19h ago

I guess this is the difference between a physicist and an engineer, because I don't actually care what phase it is. I care that 20 kg of liquid helium expands and displaces a cubic meter of water, which masses about a thousand kilograms for 20 kilograms of helium, resulting in 980 newtons 9600 N of buoyant force [ed. to correct: force = mg = 980*9.81]. Whether that helium is actually a gas or a supercritical fluid or just a somewhat-less-dense liquid doesn't really matter.

Also temperature and pressure are not the same thing. Are you familiar with a phase diagram? They each get their own axis. Now why do you think that is? (That's a rhetorical question. It's pretty clear from the diagram that the phase depends on both.)

Also note that for helium all the action is taking place between 0 and 6 kelvin. Above that its technically a supercritical fluid but for the most part its very gas-like. People don't normally say that a child's helium balloon is full of supercritical fluid even though technically it is.

And sure, at the bottom of the sea the pressure makes some difference, but its still much lower density than it was a liquid, which brings us back to the beginning. As long as it can displace water, we can use it to achieve buoyancy. Which, going from 2 kelvin and 1 bar to 270 kelvin and 110 bar, it can. So the device can work.

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u/varimuso 1d ago

“Scrap metal stuck? Oh no worries, mate! I’ll just hop out and- oh, right…”

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u/Gordon_frumann 1d ago

"During one unsuccessful dive of 2021, Titan became stuck at the bottom of the ocean for at least four hours because of mechanical problems, and was unable to ascend to the surface and unable to reach the Titanic wreckage. Passengers aboard this dive spent 20 hours inside Titan before they reached surface and were able to get out of the submersible"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(submersible))

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u/Embarrassed_Emu1615 1d ago

That thing was small, 20 hours in that would send me mad.

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u/blumpkin 1d ago

I'm pretty sure I'd get murdered after the rest of the crew was forced to inhale my anxiety farts for the first hour or two.

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u/Zerokx 12h ago

In 20 hours someone is definitely gonna piss or shit themself.

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u/p_gaultieri 1d ago

You couldn't even cut a fart, that thing would fill up like a gas chamber.

Fuck that.

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u/financeperson 1d ago

A fart-huffer might thrive in that environment, though.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 22h ago

He sure did until his sub blew up.

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u/Wanna_PlayAGame 1d ago

Think you meant jerry rigged as the work was mediocre

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u/SpartanJack17 1d ago

The scrap metal wasn't unusual, most submersible use it as weights. It's disposable and has little to no environmental impacts.

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u/currently_pooping_rn 1d ago

>jury rigged

At least you tried lol

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u/Not-An-FBI 21h ago

Jury rigged is the original phrase and therefore obviously an accepted spelling.

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u/freekoout 1d ago

*Jerry rigged

Jury rigged is a whole different issue.

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u/an_actual_coyote 1d ago

Nobody, eh?

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

Nobody who's understanding of physics is greater than the level of a first grader I guess I should say. 

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u/an_actual_coyote 1d ago

How else do you suggest catching roadrunners, know it all?

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u/Apexnanoman 23h ago

Well tactical bombing with with 20 megaton hydrogen bombs of course. 

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u/The_Poop_Shooter 1d ago

This is the same reason why a certain someone sits atop the highest throne in all of the lands

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u/LPGeoteacher 1d ago

Well you would need to have the ridiculously small umbrella.

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u/operath0r 1d ago

If anyone wants to hear about a fucked up story, feel free to look up the Byford Dolphin Incident.

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

Yeah that one's pretty fucking gross. 

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u/singlemale4cats 1d ago

I mean nobody assumes that they could sit inside of a gigantic cannon and be fired Looney Tunes style and survive

https://youtu.be/g4bLkgk_jRE

👀

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

That's big springs though versus gunpowder lol. 

Gunpowders a hell of a lot more violent. 

Though I suppose it is still a cannon of a sort.

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u/Significant_Quit_674 1d ago

Funny enough, the pressure down at 4000 m is only about 40 MPa, meanwhile a L52 Artillerie gun has a pressure limit of 391 MPa.

Needless to say, all of this is instant death

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u/Apexnanoman 23h ago

One of the things about Reddit that still remains good...... Somebody's going to have the math involved lol. 

Though yes, both of those pressure figures are slightly past the crush pressure of a human body. 

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u/Ok_Decision5152 1d ago

It depends if it was made by Acme 😉

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u/ChronoFel 1d ago

Wait a minute!

I went to the circus when those were still around, I saw them actually shoot guys out of canons for real

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u/Apexnanoman 23h ago

Yeah but those things are spring-loaded or use compressed air pushing a plate that the person stands on if memory serves.

Not the sheer violent level of acceleration that an explosive detonation imparts. 

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u/ChronoFel 22h ago

Damn. There goes my weekend

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u/Apexnanoman 22h ago

Hey, I'm not going to tell a person what they can and can't do. 

If you want to load yourself into a 14-in naval cannon with about 1,500 lbs of powder loaded? I am all for it. 

I absolutely love real world science experiments! 

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 1d ago

Rich people think they are smarter at everything.

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u/SnooPeripherals5518 1d ago

"I mean nobody assumes that they could sit inside of a gigantic cannon and be fired Looney Tunes style and survive." I LOVE that...