{"id":579547,"date":"2023-06-21T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/insufficient-prototype-testing-could-put-titanic-sub-passengers-in-extreme-danger-video\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:51:37","slug":"insufficient-prototype-testing-could-put-titanic-sub-passengers-in-extreme-danger-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/insufficient-prototype-testing-could-put-titanic-sub-passengers-in-extreme-danger-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#Insufficient prototype testing could put Titanic sub passengers in ‘extreme danger’ [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"
SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 The company whose submersible vanished<\/a> in the North Atlantic on a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic was repeatedly warned that there might be catastrophic safety problems posed by the way it was developed, documents show.<\/p>\n

With five people aboard<\/a> a vessel that if still functioning would have a dwindling amount of oxygen, an expanding international fleet of ships and airplanes is searching for the Titan, operated by OceanGate Expeditions. The undersea exploration company based in Everett, Washington, has been making yearly voyages to the Titanic since 2021.<\/p>\n

In the first piece of good news<\/a> since the search began, a Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises, though the vessel has not been found, the U.S. Coast Guard reported early Wednesday.<\/p>\n

David Lochridge, OceanGate\u2019s director of marine operations, wrote an engineering report in 2018 that said the craft under development needed more testing and that passengers might be endangered when it reached \u201cextreme depths,\u201d according to a lawsuit filed that year in U.S. District Court in Seattle.<\/p>\n

OceanGate sued Lochridge that year, accusing him of breaching a non-disclosure agreement, and he filed a counterclaim alleging that he was wrongfully fired for raising questions about testing and safety. The case settled on undisclosed terms several months after it was filed.<\/p>\n

Lochridge’s concerns primarily focused on the company’s decision to rely on sensitive acoustic monitoring \u2014 cracking or popping sounds made by the hull under pressure \u2014 to detect flaws, rather than a scan of the hull. Lochridge said the company told him no equipment existed that could perform such a test on the 5-inch-thick (12.7-centimeter-thick) carbon-fiber hull.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail \u2014 often milliseconds before an implosion \u2014 and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,\u201d Lochridge’s counterclaim said.<\/p>\n

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