“Titanic” director James Cameron blamed the vulnerable carbon fiber composite construction hull of the doomed OceanGate submersible for its tragic implosion on Friday.
The material likely led to the “critical failure” that claimed the lives of five passengers aboard the minivan-sized craft, Cameron“You don’t use composites for vessels that are seeing external pressure,” he said. “They’re great for internal pressure vessels like scuba tanks, for example, but they’re terrible for external pressure.”
Cameron said the submersible’s designers relied on aviation engineering rather than submergence technology — an approach he believes led to the implosion during a tour of Titanic wreckage. “We all said that it was, you know, a flawed idea and they didn’t go through certification,” he said.The material likely led to the “critical failure” that claimed the lives of five passengers aboard the minivan-sized craft, Cameron said Friday.The Titan submersible imploded during a tour of the Titanic wreckage in the northern Atlantic Ocean.“They fail over time, each dive adds more and more microscopic damage,” he said.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who died in the submersible, previously asserted that carbon fiber was preferable to alternatives like titanium. Virginia Tech ocean engineering professor Stefano Brizzolara also zeroed in on the hull as the possible cause of the disaster
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