toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
so what made that happen? that's what I don't u/stand... something breached the walls of the vessel? manufacturing defect?
Some small defect. Material fatigue from repeated dives, a hairline crack, maybe a pinhole leak---- at that pressure, the slightest defect would cause the entire sub to implode with the weight of a mountain snapping inward in all directions crushing the sub down to the size of a speck in an instant. You would never even know it. One minute you are there, the next instant you are gone.
Something like 300,000-400,000 TONS of total pressure instantly collapsing in on the relative vacuum of pressure inside to nothingness.
Just consider:
5,500 PSI on the OUTSIDE.
14 PSI on the INSIDE.
The thing was apparently made out of carbon fiber and titanium. I have a carbon fiber bike: funny stuff, super strong as hell, but the slightest defect and it breaks.