Don’t hold your hopes up too much. It was a commercial enterprise, operating in international waters. What OceanGate was offering was, and still is, fully legal. Its CEO was both committed and persuasive in getting people on board, despite all the doubts surrounding the safety of Titan.

It’s abhorrent. Some Dutch war ships sunk in the Java sea have suffered the same fate. War grave desecration. Nothing left on the sea bed.

Simple physics. Inside the sub you have 1 bar (14 psi) of pressure. Outside, at Titanic depth, you have about 380 bar of pressure, or some 5300 psi, give or take.

Here’s your star!

As a side note: Getting pre 1945 steel from the sea bed isn’t exactly cheap.

If only if it was that simple...

and the first time it tried to do its sole job — shuttling sightseers high on hubris down to the site of another aquatic disaster — it caved in like a Coke can. These are the facts of the matter.

No one, not even a celebrity standing on the grid before the race, owes Brundle — or Formula 1 — anything.

Having seen some of the PR footage of the subs construction, in particular how the titanium parts were glued to the composite mid-section, I can’t really pick a single most likely point of failure...

So? Get a Lotus Elise, or Exige, and drop in a 13B. It hasn’t been done before as much as the good ol’ K-swap, but “Rotus’es” have been made.

No no no, whatever you hold against me, it’s just “I”, not “AI”.

Yup, it never happened, it’s an anecdotal story taken out of context.

Ok, so this:

Shoes on or shoes off, it’s always gross to prop your feet up on the dash. Don’t do it.

From Rob’s video you can learn that this beast is essentially 3 gear-connected 4-rotor engines, with each bank its own timing gear. So for starters, each bank is firing on its own timing with regards to the other banks.

Complexity, or lack thereof.

It might be that the risks of a major accident are rare - but when nuclear power goes bad - it goes bad in a big way.

This needs the nasty little interjection of “By what metric?”

The weird thing is that the really high density of tungsten throws things off! Tungsten metal will do around US$ 24 per kg, apparently. A good high-end aerospace-grade stainless steel will cost roughly the same.

Ah, ok, that might help with the perception a bit, though tungsten carbide isn’t a metal, it’s a ceramic. But I sorta see how it would evoke some premium-ishness.