OceanGate Wreck Shows Why Sub Wasn't Strong Enough To Survive - NTSB Shares Important Details

Scott Manley September 30, 2024
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Scott Manley is someone who fell into YouTube because he felt a deep compelling need to teach people orbital mechanics and rocket science so they could play Kerbal Space Program, now, years later the gaming videos are less important and the pure science is the main thrust. My degrees are all in Physics and Astronomy, so much of the rocket science and engineering I've learned is self taught, always learning, always teaching. I used to do this as a hobby, along with my day job in software development, but that recently came to an end and I'm really appreciating everyone who has chosen to support my work through Patreon.

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The US Coast Guard has finished its hearings on the failure of OceanGate's Titan Submersible, after 2 weeks we've heard from a lot of people who are familiar with the technology, the company, or the people involved. And for me the most interesting thing is the details from the NTSB who delivered some new images of the debris, along with microscopic analysis of some recovered pieces. Everything I see points to the carbon fiber hull not being fabricated to the standards needed to ensure safe margins needed for sustained operation. Some decisions during fabrication may have made the material weaker than it could otherwise be, and there's now evidence in the history of the vehicle pointing to degradation over time. All the data and documents are here, and we're still waiting for a full report from the NTSB who will no doubt go into way more detail in an attempt to understand what happened in a split second 2 miles under the ocean. https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/ Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley

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