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Originally Posted by schteve_d
Does anyone know how deep this thing has been down to previously? I don't recall seeing that information anywhere and I can't seem to find it.
I read stories of people who have been on it before, but no mention of the depths it has previously reached.
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At least 3000m. One of the company guys took it solo. Interestingly, that's also what they used to calculate life support supply from. One person, not talking, probably less stressed than any passenger would be. It's "rated" to 4000m, bot that's just an engineering/material science estimate, it's never been tested to failure. Nor has it been seriously checked for stress from repeat trips. This is what makes me think it got crushed on the way down. Carbon fibre is essentially a brittle laminate, so repeated stresses could cause small cracks between layers, eventually resulting in a catastrophic failure.