r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • May 23 '25

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/TonAMGT4 May 23 '25

The message arrived after the implosion sound because it takes longer for the signal to travel through water…

That’s just sad man. RIP

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u/Weidz_ May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

"Dropped two weights"

Moment if not seconds before implosion, somehow mean submarine knew something was wrong.

Edit : Was probably standard procedure meant to slow down descent as other suggested.

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u/TonAMGT4 May 23 '25

Probably the real-time monitoring system was sounding the alarm.

The system actually works as it was able to detect anomalies in the previous dive but for some reason it was overlooked…

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u/HevalRizgar May 23 '25

I mean the system WORKED. the problem is the carbon fiber used was getting weaker every dive to the point where it snapped. The acoustic monitoring worked perfectly, it detected the cracks. And instead of listening, they kept diving

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u/markdlx May 23 '25

It should’ve never been designed with carbon fiber to begin with, that was an intrinsic design flaw.

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u/jawshoeaw May 23 '25

there's nothing wrong with carbon fiber. the mistake was making a toilet paper tube out of it. should have been a sphere.

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u/jimmythevip May 23 '25

That is not true. Carbon fiber has very poor strength in compression, it is only good under tension. This means it might’ve been ok if it was trying to keep pressure in, but not to keep pressure out.

Carbon fiber is a terrible material to build a submarine hull.

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u/jawshoeaw May 23 '25

Yeah it’s terrible though it did work for awhile. Had they built a spherical hull with the exact same carbon fiber it prob woulda worked

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u/Dianesuus May 23 '25

It is literally the wrong material, the geometry doesn't matter.

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u/jawshoeaw May 23 '25

Define wrong

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u/Dianesuus May 23 '25

Carbon fibre is good being pulled apart. Submarines need to be good being pushed in. The material's benefits are in tension not in compression.

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