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I also enjoyed the ocean gate doc. 
I knew most of the stuff in there. I didn’t know the details of the people leaving which was pretty interesting. 
 

I can’t believe they never had a successful test of the last design but said fuck it let’s build it anyway. I’ve never heard of using carbon fiber in a pressure situation before or since. Metal bends before it breaks so you have a chance to do something before failure. Carbon fiber looks fine then fails. 

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On 6/13/2025 at 10:07 AM, blacklab said:

I also enjoyed the ocean gate doc. 
I knew most of the stuff in there. I didn’t know the details of the people leaving which was pretty interesting. 
 

I can’t believe they never had a successful test of the last design but said fuck it let’s build it anyway. I’ve never heard of using carbon fiber in a pressure situation before or since. Metal bends before it breaks so you have a chance to do something before failure. Carbon fiber looks fine then fails. 

I didn’t get his obsession with making it carbon fiber. Is there a weight problem in the water?

That was rhetorical. The guy was just a rich dipshit that wanted to say he did something different so he had meaning in his life. 

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21 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I didn’t get his obsession with making it carbon fiber. Is there a weight problem in the water?

That was rhetorical. The guy was just a rich dipshit that wanted to say he did something different so he had meaning in his life. 

He had his ego but he really thought he could make a new global tourist industry with cheap carbon fibre submersibles.  His obsession overlooked all the problems.  The doc with Josh gates relating his experience going down in it and his shear terror says it all.

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