Topic: The accident of Titan who went to see the wreckage of Titanic (Read 145 times)

Carbon fiber is limited to longitudinal strength running parallel to its fibers. To address this shortcoming layers of fibers are placed at different angles. But this may not effectively compensate for compression. Where enormous pressure is exerted from all sides.

The tail cone being constructed of titanium coupled with the hull of composite fibers could also give both materials different expansion and contraction properties sufficient for catastrophic implosion.

Well after the first horrible time I do not think I can trust his company again. This is only 27 years to go. And now I am wondering if other companies will plan to have space travel for us by that time.

Imagine in 2050 morning you wear your VR headset and watch the morning news. Then you get to know that 1000 billionaires went to discover Venus missing a couple of mins ago.  The shuttle was made of plastic and they used Nintendo switch to control the shuttle blah blah 

Well now OceanGate's surviving co-founder wants to move from the water to space. Guillermo Söhnlein new idea called HUmans2Venus wants to do that. He wants to send 1,000 people to the planet Venus in 2050.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/01/guillermo-shnlein-oceangate-co-founder-venus-colony-vision/70509578007/

Well I think Oceangate is trying to make itself disappear now for good. It is trying to disappear from the internet, and deleted all of its social media. It maybe is scared for it being sued, doing this will not stop being sued.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/oceangate-scrubs-social-media-accounts-amid-doomed-titan-sub/

Well it is no surprise to read this news. OceanGate has suspended all exploration and business operations after implosion of its Titan submersible. The company was founded in 2009. 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-titanic-submarine-implosion-firm-30408375

It really is so sad. And now to make the matter worst there is argument for who is going to pay for search attempts. They are all millionaires and families can afford to pay for the search attempts.
But I think it should be Ocean Gate Expeditions who pays for it. It is already hard times for families of this sad tragedy. https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2023/06/25/64983680e2704ee7718b4584.html

They need to do rare things that normally people can't do. But they choose wrong company with old technology to do that. So sad. 

Well it is a very sad tragedy and could not imagine what the families of these five people who died must be going through right now. I started following the story first when it came on the news about how the submersible sub lost radio communication with the main boat on the surface.
As more information was being released to the public I began to hope for those passengers because they also had a limited amount of oxygen in order to still find them alive. But as more days passed and talk on the news about trying to locate the submersible sub and still must find a way to pull it back up to the surface.
Other details describe how the submersible was built and was not completely safe to withstand the amount of pressure of 13,000 feet underwater. I did not lose faith and hope for a miracle. But by the time they found the debris near the Titanic shipwreck, I knew it was too late and the five passengers had tragically lost their lives.
I could not imagine being in that submersible and having to pay $250,000 just to die underwater. I truly feel sorry for the families and hope they can find peace.

You know that the Titan, a small submersible that went to see the Titanic wreck with five persons, including the founder of Titen, a billionaire, a Guinness World Record holder, a father and a son, has now disappeared to the bottom of the Atlantic sea.

Before talking a little deeper about this incident, let's talk about this small-size submersible also known as Titan.

Carbon fibre and titanium metal are used as materials to make the pressure vessel of the Titan submersible. Its dimensions are 670cm x 280cm x 250cm (22ft x 9.2ft x 8.3ft high) and its weight is 10,432 kg or 23 000 pounds (23,000 lbs). The maximum depth it can travel is considered to be 4,000 meters or 13,123 feet. The maximum capacity that can be carried by Titen submersible is 685 kg/ pounds (1,510 lbs). The crew capacity is five persons (1 pilot + 4 crew).

If we talk about its Life Support, the oxygen supply required for 96 hours for five adults here is also included. But this may change under environmental conditions at a depth of over 13,000ft. Also, Four Innerspace 1002 electric thrusters are used as the propulsion system here.

If we talk about the integrated technology of this submersible, it includes below things:

• Sub C Imaging 4k Rayfin camera
• Teledyne 2D sonar
• 40 000 lumens of external light
• 2G Robotics laser scanner
• INS/USBL
• Real-Time Hull Health Monitoring System

There is something special about this Real Time Hull Health Monitoring System in this submersible. It is the pressure at the depth of 4000m/13,123ft where the wreckage of the Titanic was buried down. At this depth, the pressure is more than 400 like Atmospheres Pressure. The pressure at this depth is 6000 PSI or 413.685 bars. It's like having 35 well-grown elephants on your one shoulder at the same time.

In such pressure, the percentage of damage that can be done to the hull system of this sub is very high and this is to monitor the damage that can be done with a big pressure like 6000 PSI. If there is any damage detected on the hull of the sub, the pilot can stop the sub from submerging immediately.

There are several possible reasons for suspecting this accident.

1) Battery or equipment failure

In the military-level sub, we can see there is a nuclear reactor to supply power to the whole sub. Why? because it needs damn power under the sea with the pressure.

But this OceanGate miracle Titan Sub is powered by several small battery packs. The heating system, Communications, Lights, Propulsion system and Navigating system all the power required to work are provided by these batteries.

But if there is a catastrophic failure in the sub, all the controls of this sub will be lost by the pilot and the sub will sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. According to experts, the onboard crew will die sooner than dying from the loss of oxygen with the extreme cold of the water at such a depth because the heating system is not working.

2) Hull Failure

Although the pressure is constantly monitored by the Real Time Hull Health Monitoring System, some people suspect that the pressure in the hull of 13,000ft has broken the wall of the hull, killed the crew and sunk the sub to the deep sea floor.

But this opinion is also somehow we can reject. The reason for that is that a Canadian P-3 Air craft had detected some underwater noise. According to them, this is considered to be a sound caused by the crew of the sub.

Now you guys think that how can a flying plane pick up the sounds of the sea in the dark? Two similar methods are used for this work.

1) Passive detection
It works like this, The sonobuoy(first used in the word war II) is dropped into the sea by the aircraft flying over the ocean. It is something like a rope that floats on the surface of the sea and stretches several parts towards the sea floor. After that, propellers, machinery and all other types of sounds coming from the sea floor are obtained by sending them.

2) Active detection
Active detection consists of a web-like part that extends to the seabed along with the antenna broom floating on the sea surface. All the data obtained by this is given to the detected vessel.

3) Onboard fire

Since some of the parts used to make this sub are homemade, there has been a problem with their safety and quality. Due to some failure in the electrical system, there will be a fire in the sub and some people have expressed suspicion that the travelling crew has died.

But this opinion is also we can reject in some way. Because as I said before, a Canadian P-3 Air craft has detected some underwater noise. If the crew is burned to death due to an onboard fire, there is no possibility of noise coming from the area that Titan despaired.

By the way, I want to tell you that this submersible doesn't have any certificates that say it's safe from diving 13000ft. Also, OceanGate was warned multiple times by industry leaders, deep-sea explorers and oceanographers of the potential for catastrophic problems. But OceanGate doesn't care about it. Look what happened today.

Lastly, It is a real question that why still a man can't invent a submarine that can dive into 13000ft in the deep sea. But some persons already claim that he will definitely land people safely on Mars and also invent helicopters that can fly to Mars, which is 323.18 million km away from the Earth.

Thanks for reading my article, I Hope to meet you with another article that can learn/know new things or technologies. Bye bye.