Comments by "Ken Smith" (@kensmith5694) on "Who Engineered the OceanGate Titan V2 Hull? Maybe Nobody Did?" video.

  1. Early on, I suspected the failure would turn out to be at the titanium ring. This is where there is a transition of materials and temp-co etc. In pressure hulls I have seen that were taken to failure, the failure seemed to always have started at some area of transition.
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  2. Those layers were mostly under compressive loading. What wonder about is how the sealed the "end grain" where it met the titanium. That is a place where the glue between layers and water coming in from the end can meet. Any void in that area can let water get into between layers and this would be a bad thing.
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