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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:47:57 JST pettter

   @doot Someone found an article about signs of repeated stress damage to the hull when they were curious about other carbon fiber hulled subs, because turns out _that's the only one_ because it's _very stupid_ to build deep-sea subs out of carbon fiber.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:57:51 JST pettter

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     • PJ Coffey

     @Homebrewandhacking Article from 2020: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/oceangate-raises-18m-build-bigger-submersible-fleet-get-set-titanic-trips/ @doot

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     PJ Coffey (homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:57:52 JST PJ Coffey

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     I would love to see that because it confirms my biases about the stupid shit they were doing with carbon fibre.

     @doot

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 18:59:51 JST pettter

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     • PJ Coffey

     @Homebrewandhacking comment from birdsite user I caught the link from:

     >i found that first one because i was curious if anyone had done carbon fibre submersibles before, because cf can just fail on you if something goes wrong in the layup etc, and it turns out, no, no one else had @doot

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 20:54:20 JST pettter

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     • emmatonkin

     @emmatonkin Reading about Steve Fossett and apparently sparing no expense for saving dipshit rich people was a thing when he died as well

     > By September 10, search crews had found eight previously unidentified crash sites,[53] some of which were decades old.[54] [...] About two dozen aircraft were involved in the massive search, @Homebrewandhacking @doot

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     emmatonkin (emmatonkin@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 20:54:21 JST emmatonkin

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     @pettter @Homebrewandhacking @doot

     In fairness, according to Techcrunch one person had tried a carbon fibre submersible before - Steve Fossett with Spencer Composites - but he died in an unrelated misadventure before they got around to using it. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired/

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 20:56:40 JST pettter

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     @emmatonkin
     > The Nevada search cost $1.6 million, "the largest search and rescue effort ever conducted for a person within the U.S." Jim Gibbons asked Fossett's estate to shoulder $487,000, but it declined, saying Fossett's wife had already spent $1 million on private searching.[75]
     @Homebrewandhacking @doot