Yet Another Funny Picture Thread (3rd attempt)

Too soon, eh?

 

Not at all............... Everybody wants to have a big "Boo Hoo" for these fools. The only reason they were going there was to exploit the Titanic, which, by the way, is a grave site that was declared off limits in 2019. As is coming out now, their submarine of choice was defective and of poor quality and design to begin with. Boils down to if you want to play silly games, you end up with silly prizes It's all fun & games until somebody gets poked in the eye with a sharp stick.

 

Yeah that is over 530 PSI...and 12000' is over 6ooo PSI!

 

Or crushed 12,000' below the surface of the sea.

And I agree, idiots. All of them. The designer / builder / owner elected to NOT have that thing certified by a third party to verify if it was safe to dive in and to what depths.

 

What do you suppose the last thing they heard was? A rivet head fly across the tiny cabin and go “PING”?

 

much like when a bug hits your windshield @ 65 mph.

 

It shocks me a bit that some people have even brought up/mentioned the idea of "body recovery".....

 

Years ago I was at a pressure testing deal. They were testing both internal and external pressure on some tanks. Looking for max pressure capability of them so it was go until they gave up. The internal pressure wasn’t that impressive, usually just fount the weak spot and cracked. The external pressure gave very little deformity, only enough you could tell something was happening, and BOOM it became a pancake. These were probably 15 gallon sized tanks and not that great of pressure, several hundred pounds of air in a chamber. Can’t imagine what 12,000 feet deep would look like.

 

Whats that creaking sound.....

 

Yes, sounds bad to say, but I'm sure they have fed many a sea creature by now.

 

Yup. This was a testing for self contained sprinkler systems. Local guy here came up with them and my cousin was welding the tanks up. They were going through whatever certification they needed to get approved to actually market them. The pressure test was filled with water and pressurized. When that blew a lot of water went a long ways out a seam that let go. They did a full size 500 gallon one I didn’t get to see. Guess that was impressive.

 

Foolish perhaps but not necessarily evil or deserving of such a death. Remember, five folks are dead and they all had fathers and mothers and maybe wives or husbands, sisters or brothers or children. Tragic news for relatives and friends to live with!