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How many of you followed the saga of the missing Titan mini-submarine last year (June 2023)? Well, the “experimental submersible” Titan? I have crushed an aluminum can with my bare hand and I have read about really well designed submarines succumbing to the insanely high pressures of the deep. No thank you. How many of you recall the Styrofoam cup that Dr. Mike Durbin showed us earlier this year? The one that looked tiny because it had been sent to the ocean floor of the Titanic wreckage site and had been compressed to its smallest possible size. Again, no thank you. But, in spite of these things some people – some people – continue to strap in and head down. And then you have guys with mammoth egos like Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate; in my opinion you get no worse combination…
This Wall Street Journal story The Titan Submersible’s Operator Ignored Years of Warnings. Then Tragedy Struck. (free link) brings us all up to date through this week. The US Coast Guard is conducting hearings on the matter. I am not a fan of overregulation, but these craft just beg for some sort of regulatory oversite. If you take paying passengers into a harsh environment such as the bottom of the ocean, literally 12,500′ deep (A look at Titanic wreck ocean depth and water pressure — and how they compare to the deep sea as a whole) – can you imagine? There surely needs to be some regulation of the activity.
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Phillip Beall (W5EBC)
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