TITAN SUB TRAGEDY

TITAN SUB TRAGEDY :

A DEATH TRAP WAITING TO HAPPEN

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

YET AGAIN

So the bad news finally came this morning, that the ill-fated crew of the submersible Titan were tragically lost when their sub imploded. And yet all this could have been avoided. It just seems to me that the advancements in submarine technology took a huge step backwards in order to allow this needless disaster. Like the Titanic itself you might say. Massive shortcuts in safety were made. In fact, no regulatory body was involved in this subs design at all. And those who did raise concerns were simply ignored or fired.  

Ultimately this type of design should never have been allowed in the first place. But then the up and coming youth would argue that innovation is being gagged in the name of archaic dinosaurs hellbent on (yawn) health and safety. Much like Elon Musk is trying to re-invent the wheel with his Space X program, by making re-usable rockets. But at the same time, Musk has made no attempt to approach NASA because they’re like sooooo old. 

TOO KOOL FOR SKOOL 

So all this, smells of ageism. Rather like the old proverb: You Can’t Put An Old Head On Young Shoulders.  I'm not a submarine expert BUT come on! Only one button? And a games controller to pilot with? Let me repeat that:  A FRIKEN GAMES CONTROLLER (!)  

This all reminds me of that dude who went para-gliding on his sofa and a Tv, with only a packet of crisps. But he knew what he was doing and it was kool.  Whereas these assholes built a submarine with zero thought into the repercussions. They just thought yeah fuck it, whatever. Let’s just tear up the rule book and make a our own dam sub. Coz we’re like super-awsum. Yay! 

BOLTED INSIDE

And get this. The sub crew had to be bolted inside, with something like 27 bolts. Hmm.  At what point did anyone stop to think that this was really shitty idea guys? Plus, this piece of crap literally looks like a beer can, using essentially fibre glass and air pressure to keep its shape. So it’s no wonder it imploded. 

JAMES CAMERON 

A huge proponent of this mess, was that OceanGate, (the subs owners), seemed to think they knew it all and made no attempt to reach out to more experienced Titanic submariners, such as film director James Cameron. To achieve his vision, Cameron used the Russian MIR subs in order to dive to the Titanic wreck. Plus these subs were built out of STEEL. They also employed the pressure sphere principle, which is essentially a 3-dimensional arch, where all exerting forces are equal. Mr Cameron dived to the titanic in these subs 33 TIMES without incident. 

A DEATH TRAP WAITING TO HAPPEN. 

When Cameron heard about the Titan design, he knew it was a death trap and just wished he had sounded the alarm sooner. 

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN 

The clue is in the title. These schmucks made a prototype submarine out of carbon fibre, supposedly stronger than steel. But unlike steel, carbon fibre has no elasticity or 'give'. Where as steel might buckle or dent and given its crew some inkling of danger. Carbon fibre simply snaps without warning. 

Thus when Titan became overwhelmed by the sheer amount of water pressure upon its hull, a sudden crack likely occurred, which proved fatal. Before they knew it, the submarine imploded. The equivalent of popping a balloon. 

UNTESTED FOR FLAWS

Such a submarine should have been tested for pressures way beyond its design limits, to work out the flaws and make adjustments. 

If they had tested it in the first dam place,  any cracks would have shown up. Of course, this would have meant destroying the actual sub. But better that than destroying five human beans. 

But oh yeah. OceanGate didn't bother with all that flap coz, yeah we're like totally awsum and the laws of physics don't apply to us.  This is why we have (yawn) all those boring (and expensive) health and safety tests, kids. 

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF 

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of all, was that these poor people hopped aboard an unseaworthy vessel to visit the wreck of another unseaworthy vessel and died for exactly the same reasons. Money and ignorance, over safety. At least it was quick, I guess. 

But oh well, its back to the drawing board, kids. 

My mate down the pub said he can probably build us another submarine for a pack of stella. 

By this time next year we'll be millionaires. 

Speaking of which,  got any spare millionaire guinea-pigs we can test it on? 

No? Damn.