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The First Images of Titan Submersible being brought ashore

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This is haunting.

There's no gore or anything, it's just twisted metal and cables. Still, seeing it and thinking "humans were alive in there mere days ago" made my gut drop. It's not like looking at wreckage of an old ship or plane or something, it's different. Because it's so small, it feels more intimate. Like looking at a coffin vs looking at a graveyard

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- The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic
  
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  The death of a billionaire however, is hilarious 🤣
  
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  Omg so tru. *Comits genocide
  
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  Wow so deep /s
  
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  So Holocaust is not a tragedy? That's what you're saying?
  
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I did not expect this thing to actually be hauled to shore. Kind of thought they were just going to leave it. How much did it cost to pull that thing up?

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- Hopefully, examination of the wreckage will yield valuable information about the cause of the failure and help future designs of deep-sea submersibles.
  
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  We already know how to build submersibles. Engineers told the CEO that this submersible was not built to spec and not safe. He fired them.
  
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Interesting - I had imagined it being imploded into bits like the simulations on the news show.

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- I'm certainly no expert but I understand submarines have an inner and outer hull. The inner hull has to withstand the pressure of the deep but the outer hull does not. The inner hull would be crushed into bits but the outer hull and any equipment in-between would likely be ripped into large chunks as such a violent event occurs inside of it.
  
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  Subs have dual hulls so they can fill the void between them with water to sink, or air to float, but they don’t dive anywhere near as deep. Most regular naval subs operate above 800 meters. They only have to be below the surface of the water for stealth, not at the bottom of the ocean.
  
  This craft was a single hull design as far as I’m aware, designed with a rigid hull to try and counteract the pressure at the bottom.
  
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Wow I didn't know they were going to recover it at all. Pretty cool. Can't wait to read about how shitty the design was.

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