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NOAAĪ simple fracture means any type of crack found in the ice.
You don't get that with steel or titanium.An example of The National Ice Center’s marginal ice zone map. but it's going to fail over time, which is insidious. "And we knew if the sub passed its pressure test it wasn't gonna fail on its first dive. what they call cycling fatigue," he added. "And so we all knew that the danger was delamination and progressive failure over time with microscopic water ingress and. 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. It also said regulation was preventing innovation, echoing comments Rush told Smithsonian Magazine that same year.Ĭameron said he personally never believed in the sort of carbon fiber cylindrical hull that the company used, telling Reuters it was a "horrible idea" that "just sounded bad on its face." OceanGate said in a 2019 blog post that the certification process only assessed the vessels themselves - not operational safety, which it took seriously. He told the BBC he believed they hadn't done so because "they knew they wouldn't pass." National A former passenger details what it's like inside the missing Titan submersible "The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion, a shockwave event so powerful that it actually took out a secondary system that has its own pressure vessel and its own battery power supply, which is the transponder that the ship uses to track where the sub is," Cameron said. He said he immediately made some calls to his network and found out within about half an hour that the Titan had lost communications and tracking simultaneously. "Now there's one wreck lying next to the other wreck," he said, "for the same damn reason." Cameron was convinced the vessel had imploded on SundayĬameron told CNN that he was out on a ship himself on Sunday, so didn't hear about the missing vessel until Monday morning. He said he regrets not speaking up more this time around. Navy heard the likely implosion of the missing Titan sub on SundayĬameron described OceanGate's use of a carbon-fiber hull as "fundamentally flawed" and said he had warned another company several years ago against using that same design principle.
"And for a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site, with all the diving that's going on all around the world, I think it's just astonishing, it's really quite surreal."Ĭameron stressed that deep submergence diving is "a mature art," with very few accidents when it began in the 1960s and an even better safety record now, thanks in large part to the certification protocols that almost all such vehicles follow - except this one.
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"I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet, he steamed up full speed into an ice field on a moonless night, and many people died as a result," Cameron said. National Experts raised safety concerns about OceanGate years before its Titanic sub vanishedĬameron and many others in the deep submergence community had long been concerned about the vessel's safety and OceanGate's experimental approach, he said on Thursday, lamenting that the company had ignored experts' calls to undergo a standard certification process.
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