Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore
Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore
Pieces of the submersible are seen for the first time after being recovered from the Atlantic.
Pieces of the submersible are seen for the first time after being recovered from the Atlantic.
With all of the animations of how it imploded, those pieces sure look intact comparatively.
The animations I saw were pretty crude and I don't think they were particularly well modeled on the way Titan was actually built or its materials. It was a tube, two titanium hemispheres attached on either end, and then a bunch of non-watertight things bolted or strapped to it. If we assume the carbon fiber tube is what failed, the domes would have sorta banged into each other but not been subject to crushing forces (and then forces sufficient to shatter the tube, not to crush the domes) for more than the milliseconds that the implosion took, then they, like every other remaining part of the sub, would have had equalized pressure. Then, the non-malleable nature of carbon fiber might have resulted in large shards rather than anything crumpled.
The animations look more like they were modeling the whole thing as a metal pressure vessel, with some fanciful imagining of the rebound "explosion."
Agreed on all accounts, except the perfectly intact dome. If it was attached super tightly to anything, like the hull, when that thing crushed it would've deformed the dome just as much I would think. This is all semi-educated guessing though.
I think if it like a pop can - tube with domed ends. If I crush the can as violently as the math suggests happened, the ends are going to be deformed. Right?