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Imploded Titanic submarine seen for first time as pieces recovered from sea floor (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] SemioticStandard@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That website is an absolute fucking dumpster fire of massively annoying and obtrusive ads, particularly on mobile. Safari adblockers do little to deal with it. I’m almost to the point where I’m just going to block the domain from even resolving at all on my home network. Really, it’s cancer. Is there a better source?

[–] Seathru@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66045554 Less ads and better pictures.

[–] ABearAttack@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The fact that they not only found the parts but brought them back to the surface is insane. I'm always impressed by underwater search and recovery.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it looks like for the nose cone, the strap is going in the viewport hole, meaning there is no more plexiglass there?

[–] Thrashy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily a smoking gun, since it would have been set up to resist pressure from the exterior but suddenly subjected to high pressure from the interior side.

I'm more intrigued by the image I've seen elsewhere of what looks like the titanium mating surface that the from hemisphere bolted to, which would have been bonded to the carbon fiber cylinder section. The photo didn't show a single shred of carbon fiber still attached to the titanium, which suggests bond failure at the interface between metal and composite components. Whether that was the initial point of failure or just the result of the strains experienced by the fragments of the cylinder as it fractured and imploded peeling everything away, I don't know.