James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble
James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble
The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.
Pressure hulls should be made out of contiguous material like steel, titanium, ceramic or acrylic, he explained, in order to do modeling and finite element analysis to "understand the number of cycles that it can take." That's not the case with a composite material, like carbon fiber, made of two different materials blended together.
"And so we all knew that the danger was delamination and progressive failure over time with microscopic water ingress and ... what they call cycling fatigue," he added. "And we knew if the sub passed its pressure test it wasn't gonna fail on its first dive ... but it's going to fail over time, which is insidious. You don't get that with steel or titanium."
Like, I don't trust carbon fiber for my bicycle frame and stick to steel because that shit cracks easily. I can't believe this guy rolled the dice with carbon fiber on a fucking deep-sea submarine.
Okay, but what does Ja Rule think?
feels like they probably knew that in their heart the moment they see the $30 Logitech controller...
I know the controller seems corny, but it turns out that even the US Navy have used Xbox controllers.
The real red flags here were the carbon fiber hull and the fact that the Titan wasn't even certified or properly tested to ensure it could survive the stress of repeated dives to such extreme depths.
It's kinda insane that OceanGate got away with taking paying tourists down in that thing for as long as they did.
To be fair the Xbox controllers are probably more reliable.
Cmdr. Reed Koepp told USA Today at the time the controllers were cost-effective and came with an added bonus — young sailors already knew how to handle them.
At least two major weapons systems that the US military is focusing on utilize Xbox-style controllers, Task and Purpose reported in March.
Girguis said making fun of the gaming controller in the submersible was appealing because it's "an easy target" but that a lot of undersea vessels "use similar controllers."
It's a question of quality control. Military grade equipment is not the same as consumer grade equipment. That's why we have grade in the first place.
Yeah, it wasn't the video game controller that failed...
I believe the Navy uses xbox controllers for controlling periscopes, not the entire submarine.
Using a game controller is not that unusual.
but it was wireless, that is bad.Yeah. It's not unusual, for example:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a33457596/israeli-carmel-tank-video-games/
Glad to see James Cameron weighing in because James Cameron knows the people need James Cameron's opinion
I think if you read the article you’ll find he’s actually an expert in this, on multiple levels. I had no idea previously.
More than we need some armchair commenter trying to diss someone who's an expert in this field because...?
I mean he is the greatest pioneer!