Debris is 'landing frame and rear cover from sub', expert says

[MagaSmash]

[James48]

1. I watched that a few minutes ago.

Debris field. If anything more than a few bits remain, they will locate more pieces. Nothing will be coming up alive.

[Wednesdays]

2. If there's a debris field

That means the craft imploded, and mercifully everyone on board was dead before they even realized something was wrong.

[MagaSmash]

3. Carbon fibers prolly don't do well when wet; and under enormous pressures.

Someone likened the pressures to the Empire state building made of lead. Crunch.

Nonwithstanding using a game controller from the Dollar Store.

[Warpy]

5. I'm sure the X Box controller was brand new

but he did boast of using unapproved materials, he had fired the safety engineer who wanted more testing, and apparently he didn't believe in automated shakedown dives. It really was a recipe for disaster and an indictment of overconfidence leading to tragedy.

That game controller was likely the best engineered part of the whole thing and was perfectly adequate to controlling the attitude and motion of the intact submersible.

I would like to see the wreckage found and examined to see what failed. Carbon fiber wasn't the only unapproved material the man used. Remains recovery should not be any sort of priority, see: Byford Dolphin diving bell incident--and that happened at exactly a tenth of the depth of this one.

This is an old and very familiar story, money and hubris leading to tragedy and heartbreak for families. Galt's Gulch is a mass grave, if nobody here figured that out yet.

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. Horrifying! Seems I'm part of a sympathetic few, contrasting those who smirk & smile at the tragedy.

[Rural_Progressive]

7. My heart goes out to the four passengers and their family and friends

The owner, not so much. He did everything he could to avoid the proper testing, regulatory, and licensing procedures. He went cheap on things like the viewport that the manufacturer was only willing to rate to 1300 meters instead of paying what it would have cost to have the part built to handle 4000 meters.

Unlike many I see a necessary place for experimental and innovative designs. Where I don't see those devices belonging is in the tourist industry.

[thucythucy]

6. I wonder then about the "banging" that was heard

at various times these last few days.

Is anyone offering any theories on that? Natural phenomenon? Extraneous noise that somehow leaked into the search equipment? Or might the implosion have happened since then, and if so, wouldn't the noise of that event been detected?

[MagaSmash]

9. Could have been anything; We hung onto it for the glimmer of hope it gave us...

[2naSalit]

10. Pieces...

Making contact with something, maybe part of the Titantic, or pieces banging against it somewhere in the current?

[applegrove]

8. So sad.