OceanGate Titan
part of OceanGate
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 27, 2023 by David Pogue · across every show →
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Jun 27, 2023 neutral
Pogue: Titan implosion likely caused by dissimilar material fatigue, not carbon fiber alone
“I believe that he's correct, meaning submarine pilot, that it's not the carbon fiber, it's the dissimilar materials connected to it. So, the titanium end caps, and the plexiglass porthole, seven inch thick, What happens is each of them has a different coeffici…”
Jun 27, 2023
Pogue: OceanGate Titan used eight embedded microphones for acoustic hull monitoring
“The carbon fiber also had an acoustic monitoring system. Carbon fibers are actual fibers. They're like hairs. And when they break, they make a little crackle, and he had eight microphones embedded that could pick up on the crackling”
Jun 27, 2023
Pogue: Stockton Rush pressure-tested a 1/3-scale Titan model to implosion at UW
“Stockton first made a one-third scale model. Nobody talks about this. He took it to the University of Washington, subjected it to pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, until it imploded to see what the level of pressure was that it could handle.”