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[-] Onii-Chan@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Built with shit from Home Depot, controlled with a literal Logitech game controller, construction pipes as ballast... holy fuck, why would anybody agree to go 3.7km below the surface of the ocean in that deathtrap?

[-] StringTheory@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Made out of a fiberglass tube (catastrophic failure) and titanium end caps (cracks) instead of steel.

“Steel is real.”

[-] Lowbird@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Titanium cracks under pressure, I take it?

Or is the join between the cap and the fiberglass body potentially more of a problem?

[-] rustyspoon@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Everything cracks under pressure, I'm not exactly sure what the above commenter is getting at. If the sub was steel the walls would be thinner. With titanium the walls are thicker. Without knowing the dimensions of the material we can't know whether it was built to high enough standards.

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