Case closed

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OceanGate has pretty much ended.

Wanted to rap it up real quick for people who want it quick and dirty.

Intro and outro by me Corrupted Code no download link.

This is sort of a meme but with real info.
While watching others on YT I took note double and triple checked the info too. But I might have gotten a few things wrong. Not sure. Some of the OceanGate sub details were fairly unclear.
Too bad we can’t get audio from Ani. Her reading was so good. 😫

Below you will find the full language prompt from the script I wrote last night as of upload date. Thank you for watching.

Submersibles

A Diving Bell Comparison

Extrapolating the strength and durability of a spherical diving bell/submersible vs cylindrical.

Successful example
James Cameron
33 dives

Depth of Titanic- twelve thousand five hundred feet /3.8km/2.4 miles

PSI Five thousand eight hundred and fifty

Steel - highest PSI under water fifteen thousand.

Titanium - highest PSI under water sixteen thousand.

Successful dives usually require a spherical design to equalize the amount of load placed on the vessel by external pressure.

OceanGate

Problem - cylindrical design.
Carbon fiber based hull material used in manufacturing.
Potential second problem - a hence forth unnamed adhesive epoxy used to bond a titanium flange to the carbon fiber hull. Said to be “as thick as peanut butter.”

Observation
Gross negligence - sounds of the hull cracking with the first dive and with every consecutive dive afterwards.
Retired original hull.
Second hull built by same process.
More faults exposed with the second hull, continuous cracking heard and detected by on board sensors. Disregarded as “settling in.”

Testing with second hull - highest successful PSI reached four thousand seven hundred and twenty two.

Second hull stored exposed outside In inclement weather conditions, including but not limited to Canadian winters.

Factors for catastrophic failure in OceanGate - aborations in hull manufacturing, possible improper use of material, possible improper weaving of material during construction, aborations sanded to heavily causing the weave to rip several areas of the material during construction, improper use/incorrect use of the adhesive used in bonding the titanium rings to the carbon fiber hull.

Opinion - Adhesives viscosity is perceived to be too dense for proper adhesion. This could cause a false positive in perceived results. Thickness of a bonding material
in all use cases if applied in vast quantities can cause bubbles to form creating gaps to large for two surfaces to meet and be bonded together. In the case of a submersible fractions of a millimeter make all the difference.

Most likely cause of catastrophic failure of OceanGate - complete loss of structural integrity of the hull.

Comparisons
James Cameron’s submersible - spherical
Material- steel
Average thickness - two and a half inches /6.4cm

OceanGate - cylindrical
Material - Carbon fiber
Average thickness - five inches/12.7cm

*key factor OceanGate internal radius - fifty six inches/142cm

Estimated Thickness Range of hull required to survive pressures up 5k PSI

Example 1 - CF Spherical hull two and three quarters of an inch /7cm up to three and a half inches/9cm
Example 2 - CF Cylindrical hull four inches /10cm up to four and three quarters of an inch/12cm

OceanGate average thickness five inches /12.7cm
(Presumed)

Conclusion
If the thickness is true, the submersible was slightly over constructed in thickness but failed due to improper handling of construction materials.

See photos from NTSB:
Link provided in description.

Thank you for watching.

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Sep/25/2003553505/-1/-1/0/CG-107%20NTSB%20TITAN%20MATERIAL%20ANALYSIS.PDF_REDACTED.PDF

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