I can't be the only one fascinated by this Titan sub ordeal

The U.S. Coast Guard said in a tweet at 11:48 a.m. ET that a remotely operated vehicle discovered a "debris field" in the Titan vessel search area.

"Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information," the Coast Guard said.

Officials are planning to hold a news briefing at 3 p.m. ET.
 
I heard today the billionaire on the sub has also gone up in space on Bezos rocket….. sorta pressing his luck

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My take is they found it, either intact with crew dead or crushed.
Waiting to notify family before news conference.
If this is the case, hope sub is crushed, however, they were searching where sounds were from.
Haven’t heard if they are still hearing them.
 
Well that’s very sad… they say it took 2 nano seconds to implode and it takes 4 nano seconds for your brain to tell you there is a problem
 
Sad indeed. One of the things I think about with events like this is all that knowledge lost. Someone will fill the shoes though.
 
People will still explore the depths, but this event may re-align their thinking and attitude toward safety, testing and redundancy.
 
Well, it was the "best" worst case scenario. I saw a report that they did not do fatigue analysis on the pressure hull between dives. If that is true, that is negligent incompetence. When I was in the Advanced Materials and Structures group at McDonnell Douglas the engineers were constantly looking for new "non-destructive" ways to quickly check for fatigue on any composite parts that went on any airplanes. On the fighters, the fatigue inspections were recommended to be conducted after every flight. It was mostly ultrasound stuff but there were also some techniques used that I believe are still classified (I'm not going to take that chance). The company spent a ton of money making sure the non-destructive techniques were very accurate.

Anyway, with the pressures that thing endured and the fact that two desperate materials were mechanically joined to form, I would have thought they would have a vigorous testing regime.
 
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