I saw an interview with James Cameron and Robert Ballard. James eluded to the fact that the carbon wound sub design would never work at those depths and Stockton was warned of this? It just seems weird that a billionaire and his son were willing guinea pigs.
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Faking their own deaths could be another scenario here.
No. They’ve made several with Titan.
But the company apparently went out it’s way to avoid formal inspections of its subs and equipment. And likely will studiously loose any relevant documents regarding any in-house inspections and reports on its equipment should the family’s start asking questions.
Just because it’s not supposed to on paper. Doesn’t mean it won’t work a few times. Eventually though the Math will catch up. In essence a case of rolling the dice too many times. Eventually the luck ran out.
It's most likely a ruse to escape prosecution. The entire operation could have been to put a cut into the hull that would guarantee a failure, then send it off into the deep to implode with nobody on board. That implosion would have reduced all flesh on board to mush. The 5 people then disappear with no chance of prosecution for crimes committed after a little plastic surgery to change their appearance. Like some claim that Hitler died an old man in South America.
"reduce the flesh on board to mush" 🤮
Not the first, but definitely the last.
Too soon?🤭
From the get-go, it was truly the wrong material to be used for a submarine. The submarine's flexibility is limited by a finite number of cycles of contraction-expansion. This is especially true for deep water submarines. The graphite laminate construction of the Titan sends my head spinning with all the variables for something going wrong. The repeat contraction-expansion factor really stands out to me.
There's a reason why titanium and special alloys of steel are chosen as the material of choice for heavy submarine manufacturing. Russia heavy submarines are built with a double hull structure.
Here is a video of one of their trips last winter to the titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29co_Hksk6o&t=26s
It is speculated 10 or more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12227821/How-times-did-doomed-Titan-sub-travel-wreckage-Titanic-disaster-struck.html
If you look at the photo gallery on the Daily mail article, there are two photos that show the bow of the Titanic through the view port that look like photoshopped stock photos. Do we really know these photos were from two different dives to the Titanic? Everything about this seems suspect.
Supposedly they made a trip before this. A passenger on supposedly previous voyage described what it was like in the Titan. It was on Liberty Daily yesterday but I can't find it now.
Could those aboard have been dropping off the radar and heading to their bunkers?
That could explain father/son both being on sub.
Death takes the heat off of pending criminal exposure.
Child traffickers going down. It probably wasn't their choice to be in the sub?