Titan Titanic

For the past few weeks the world has been trying to get in touch with this woman, her name is Wendy.Rush, you may not know who she is, but if you've seen the movie "Titanic", you'll remember this scene. When the ship hits an iceberg, the ship is sinking, but in the cabin, an old couple with white hair cuddled together and quietly waited for the final moment. This couple is not a fictional character, but a real person.

They are Wendy's great-great-grandparents, Isidor Strauss and Ida Strauss. The owner of the department store, when the Titanic was sinking, all the first-class women and children were guided to the deck and the lifeboats could be transferred to a safe place first. As soon as it was Ida’s turn to board the lifeboat, she said softly, but at the same time firmly, no, I want to be with my husband. After finishing speaking, she put the fur coat on the maid and turned back to her husband. The two returned to the cabin together. But this year in 2023, the media want to find Wendy not because she is a descendant of the Titanic victims, but because she is the communication director of a company called "Ocean Gate", that is, she is the company's external spokesperson. The company has three submersibles called Anti-Earth, Cyclops, and Titan.

The Titan is the latest and most advanced one that can dive to a depth of nearly 4,000 meters. It is also equipped with the most advanced acoustic sensors. It can hear the condition of the hull in deep water and adjust the dive depth in time. Titan is also a diving sightseeing service vigorously launched by the company. However, something happened to Titan in June 2023. Today we will talk about the story. The solar system has been uploaded. The solar system looks ordinary in the universe. Such a star system can be seen everywhere, but you will never think of the truth.

Please remember to watch it. St. Johns is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is close to the Atlantic Ocean. On June 16, 2023, an icebreaker named Polar Prince set off from the port of St. Johns to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.The captain of the expedition team on board is Wendy’s husband, Lao Si. There are 4 members in total. They are the British businessman Harding, the Pakistani businessman Dawood and his son, and the former French navy commander Narje Ole. The five are very excited because they are about to take a submersible to visit the famous shipwreck of the Titanic. The word meaning huge comes from Titan Titanic, the protoss in Greek mythology.

Titanic is the adjective form of the word. Titans are a group of giants and the oldest protoss. However, everyone knows that this "unsinkable giant ship" sank during its maiden voyage. Shipped to the Titan, it is named directly after the giant Titan in ancient Greek mythology. It is a cylindrical submersible weighing about 10 tons, 6.7 meters long, 2.8 meters wide and 2.8 meters high.The official profile of the 5M company says that the hull is made of aviation-standard carbon fiber, about 13 centimeters thick. The front end is a titanium alloy dome, and the entire hull is reinforced with titanium alloy. It can dive to a depth of about 4,000 meters below sea level. The entire submersible is the size of a truck. The rear is equipped with electronic equipment, a navigation system and an oxygen production device. The submersible can continuously supply oxygen for 96 hours. There is not much room for people to sit in the front. 5 adults, including the submersible operator, can only sit cross-legged on the floor. The operator is Lao Si himself.

He sits among the passengers and can use a joystick to operate the submersible. There is also a simple toilet in the cabin to solve the urgent problems of the team members. Passengers can easily watch the sunken ship through the front window. It’s just as easy to observe the wreck of the Titanic at such a safe and close distance. For many fans, it’s a super benefit. In addition, Wendy’s great-great-grandparents’ love story serves as a backdrop, so many fans are eager to try it. For fans, Dawood, who has been doing business in the UK, couldn’t wait to spend $500,000 to buy two boat tickets for himself and his son to realize their dreams. At 9:30 am on June 18, the expedition team got into the submersible Titan. The difference is that what we usually call a military submarine should be called a "submarine" to be precise.

It is an underwater ship with a completely independent and continuous power system and a water storage tank system that can automatically adjust the depth of the dive. Civilian or scientific research submersibles are mainly used for seabed exploration.Or to carry out salvage investigations and other tasks, so its size is generally small and will not be equipped with too powerful power equipment. Titan has 4 electric propellers, which can only reach a speed of 4 kilometers per hour. It is too slow to dive to a depth of nearly 4,000 meters. Therefore, it needs a recovery platform with stronger horsepower to help it dive to a certain depth. Titan will separate from the platform and dive autonomously. The return journey is much easier because Titan has ballast inside. After the dive, I would contact the Prince every 15 minutes to report safety, but since 11:00 in the morning, the Prince has never received a message from Titan.

Wendy didn’t respond at first, because she went on the Titan to see the shipwreck twice. The coast guards of Canada have received the news of the missing Titan. The coast guards and air forces of the two countries have sent a large number of ships and planes to search for it. As soon as the news spread on the Internet, there was a lot of discussion. My God, is this the curse of the Titans? The Si protoss won and became a new generation of ruling gods. Zeus exiled all the Titans who participated in the war to the dark and dark place at the bottom of the deep sea. It is called the Tartarus Hell. In 1912, the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. Now exactly 100 years later, the Titan submersible disappeared again. The name is like a curse, whoever is unlucky, and the two shipwrecks separated by hundreds of years are in the exact same place. Some of the victims were directly related. In addition to marveling at the coincidence of fate, what is even more striking is the revelation that a former passenger of the Titan submersible came forward and revealed that this submersible is not as advanced and safe as the old man claimed.

A CBS News reporter who has been on a Titan, Pogue, described the horrible impression he saw. Pogue said that when he got into the Titan, he found that there were 18 fixing bolts around the hatch, but the staff only tightened 17 of them. I bought it, and the two monitors in the cabin are just decorations. There is no detection data, and the picture is always frozen. That is to say, the acoustic detector advertised by the company does not work at all. At that time, Pogue wanted to jump out of the submersible immediately, but he could not do it.

The submersibles can dive to 4000 meters or even deeper. These submersibles have all passed the strict testing of relevant departments, but the Titan has not. In fact, Lao Si has received advice from the company more than once. Worrying is a bit like the feeling made by his own garage, but the old lady sells melons and boasts that she is full of confidence in her products. Four days after the Titan lost contact, the US Coast Guard found 5 main pieces of Titan's wreck. What about the explosion scene? In fact, the professional term for implosion should be the process of an object collapsing into itself. In simple terms, the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the object is too large.

It will increase the pressure by 100 atmospheres and dive to the wreck of the Titanic, which is about 4000 meters, which is 400 atmospheres. What is this concept? It is equivalent to stacking the weight of more than 700 African elephants on a square of 1 square meter. Speaking of a digression here, you may wonder that there are all kinds of sea creatures living on the bottom of the sea under such great pressure. How do they withstand this huge pressure? The real fatal flaw is that there are so many flaws in the design of the first Titan. Although the Titan can only accommodate 5 people, it is small compared to a submarine, but it is already considered large for a submersible. The average submersible can only carry 2 to 3 people, and most of them are designed to be spherical. The pressure can be evenly distributed around the hull. The Titan is not only big, but also cylindrical. Although the shape is the same as the material used in submarines, it is completely different. In the introduction of Ocean Gate Company, Titan is made of titanium alloy and carbon fiber. Titanium alloy is light in weight, has very high strength and toughness. It is a special metal for spacecraft and current submarines, but the cost of titanium alloy is too high. On Titan, only the front circular cover is made of titanium alloy.

The rear cylindrical hull is made of carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is a kind of chemical fiber composite material. Old Si’s exclusive invention. The shells of ordinary military submarines are made of steel. Submarines can be divided into double-hull and single-hull. It sounds like steel is a more common material, but whether it is a double-hull or single-hull submarine, their dive depth is far inferior to that of the Titan. It doesn’t have to withstand such a large pressure environment. The dive depth of conventional submarines is usually around 300 meters. The dive depth of nuclear-powered submarines can reach 600 meters. The design dive depth made of steel and titanium alloy is 1250 meters. The new Virginia attack nuclear submarine in the United States has not been able to dive beyond 600 meters, but this depth can already avoid almost all attacks from the sea surface. No matter how deep the dive is, it is meaningless to carry out military missions.So Titan’s dive to the depths of nearly 4,000 meters is a very big challenge for submersibles. You may say, “No, isn’t Titan going down 5 times before and returning successfully? Yes, it’s because it’s been down 5 times before, and the 6th time will be very dangerous. The reason is that the elasticity of carbon fiber is relatively weak.

After returning to the sea surface from the deep sea environment, the pressure change will make the carbon fiber brittle. In addition, Ocean Gate does not change materials or maintain the carbon fiber hull that has passed the previous high-pressure deformation test in order to save costs. It becomes an indefinite time bomb. When it is put back into the deep-sea high-pressure environment, it may be broken and disintegrated at any time. According to the data analysis of the salvaged Titan wreck, we can make up such a scene in the brain. After the Titan broke away from the platform, it dived to the vicinity of the Titanic wreck. At this time, all the passengers could already vaguely see the outline of the Titanic through the lights of the submersible. Everyone held their breath and tried to see the epic shipwreck that they had always dreamed of. The body finally couldn't hold it anymore, and within 0.001 second, which is one thousandth of a second, an implosion occurred. The hull was crushed into a crumpled lump, and then disintegrated, and the five people in the cabin were instantly smashed to pieces.

The only consolation is that death came suddenly. The human brain's reaction speed to pain is about 0.25 seconds and a quarter of a second, so within a thousandth of a second, the five people didn't feel any pain, and they shattered into a pile of slag. It is definitely a painless death. Now the US Coast Guard is still studying Titan's fragments, trying to find a little bit of the passenger's remains for identification. If death has nothing to do with Ocean Gate, it is unknown whether Ocean Gate will be prosecuted and how it will be prosecuted. Regardless of whether it is prosecuted or not, the tragedy has already happened. People can’t be resurrected. Some ghostly coincidences happened when the giant ship sankMore than 1,000 tons, with a powerful power output of 46,000 horsepower, and it also adopted the most advanced watertight compartment design at that time. If the hull is damaged, seawater will be poured into the watertight compartment at the damaged place first, because the watertight compartments are separated from each other, and there will be no situation where there is a breach in the hull, causing the sea water to fill the whole ship. This greatly increases the chance of survival of the ship in the shipwreck. The situation will be more complicated. Modern investigations have found that just after the Titanic hit the iceberg, the breach occurred at the seam of the side rivets. This is the most fragile position that is likely to cause the greatest damage, and there may be multiple breaches, not a continuous crack.

The Titanic has a total of 16 watertight compartments, which can withstand water ingress in a maximum of 4 compartments, but there is another one that happens to have 5 compartments flooded, and one more compartment is flooded. This ship is designed to maintain the most comfortable sailing effect. If 2 compartments are submerged, no matter what combination The ship can sail normally. The 3 or 4 watertight compartments have no risk of flooding. Even the first 4 compartments are all filled with seawater. The ship will not sink. If 5 waterproof compartments are flooded at the same time, the angle of inclination of the ship will exceed a certain range, because the top of the watertight compartment design at that time was not sealed, and the sea water will overflow from the tilt angle of the bow and flood the back. As long as this design bug is triggered, the water barrier system will fail. No matter how many waterproof compartments you have, it is useless. In reality, this bug was actually triggered because this situation caused the ship to sink a little faster.

It took only 2 hours and 40 minutes from leaking to sinking. How much did it take? One and a half hours, because the first rescue ship arrived just one and a half hours after the sinking, and the passengers on the ship could not survive for an hour and a half in the low-temperature sea water. In short, it was either a little more here or a little less there. The more in the front led to a little less in the back, and finally this giant ship that seemed impossible to sink really sank on its maiden voyage.That's all for today's story, thank you all.