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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I don't know, I've been watching a lot of videos with different experts, and at the beginning of all this, one of them said that it wasn't just breathable air they were worried about, but that if it was at the bottom for an extended period of time, a a catastrophic failure of the shell became more likely as more time passed. I am not a structural engineer, but that seems logical.
I tend to thing an immediate implosion is more likely mainly because the supposed fail safe measures to re-float the vessel should have kicked in. Then again, it sounds like there is a history or things not working properly on this vessel. So I don't know, I guess on the limited knowledge I have, I feel is is like 60-40 that in imploded when contact was lost, but I am not convinced either. I am sure investigators will sort it out.
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I stuggle with that one. With Carbon Fiber I’d suspect fatigue based cracking from pressure cycle being a leading candidate of failure. Think bending a paper clip back and forth until it breaks. In this type of failure it would likely occur during decent or ascent but not from steady state on the bottom.
What kind of mechanisms of failure were they suggesting when being concerned about time spent on the bottom?
My one thought on failure on the bottom is if the shell already had some flaws in it and these people being desperate to create noise impacted the shell with sufficient force to cause a failure. It would explain banging than explosion noises if that evidence is found to be credible.
I think failure on the way down or up is most likely though.