Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Two Bit da Vinci" channel.

  1. I've heard valid criticism from another engineer that works on pressure vessels for petroleum rigs and petroleum platforms about Oceangate. Also the concept of "risk" needs expanding. I'm any extreme adventure (which you have an individual right to partake in, provided you are a fully informed adult), like descending to the abyssal plain (where the Titanic wreck rests), there is an element of severe risk. Like the people who climb Mt Everest, another dangerous often lethal environment. There are many deaths from mountaineers who climb this dangerous peak in search for adventure because of extreme cold combined with low oxygen. However, they make the ascent on an individual basis and hence mainly put their own lives on a tightrope doing this, generally less that of others. The Oceangate Titan disaster is a bit different than dead mountaineers on Mt Everest. This was a submersible craft that suffered a critical point of engineering failure at depth in which 5 people were killed as a result. I've now learned that three dives were taken before this occurred and incredibly possibly no rigorous testing of the pressure vessel components were carried out before and after each dive. Unlike on a mountain, when you might be able to decide to climb back down if you're suffering hypothermia or anoxia (freezing or low air) and you can bring personal breathing apparatus, the passengers on board the Oceangate Titan submersible had no choice but the carry on with their journey, despite their doubts. Furthermore, and i've heard this from a jounalist who actually descended in a submersible and his craft got jammed in the propellor of the Titanic for over an hour. This famous wreck is a grave of hundreds of people (more than 1500 people died on the night of it's sinking) and perhaps as a cemetery needs to treated with some greater respect. The failure of Oceangate Titan submersible will be in textbooks and taught to undergraduate engineers for decades to come: Engineering 101; critical points of failure.
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