Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : paulie420
From : Adept
Date : Sat Jun 24 2023 11:22:13

 pa> And I believe this was part of the issue, too - fiber carbon, unlike
 pa> titanium and steel of yesteryear, was untested in how it reacts to MANY
 pa> dives... expand, shrink, expand, shrink x12 - b00m.

From what I understand, this is also a risk for carbon fiber in other instances.

E.g., fancy bikes. It's a great, light-weight material, but it's hard to see if a frame is about to go, and when it goes, it goes explosively, which is not great if you're going fast.

Steel? If it breaks, you either hit something really fast, or it was something that you should've caught with a cursory inspection. E.g., the frame getting bent over time.

But I'm no expert.

And, certainly, here, obviously lots of things should've been done better. But, really, I only feel bad for the people who would've been fairly convinced of its safety, or the 19-year-old who reportedly did not want to go, but went as a favor to his dad for fathers' day.

But otherwise... I do feel worse for the people on the overturned migrant ship. Though that sort of thing is so much more common, and thus less fascinating than someone's hubris leading to a vessel lying at a famous site deep under the ocean.

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