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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Fair enough. That makes a lot of sense. I have heard that the failure model for this thing likely would have been some cracking sounds, and then the implosion, but I probably shouldn't speculate quite so hard. At any rate, the whole thing was a disaster waiting to happen, and whaddaya know, it did.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    Frankly, it was probably cracking and pinging all the way down, even on normal dives. They had steel titanium outer caps on the ends, and carbon fiber in the middle, those two materials stretch and compress very differently under extreme loads.

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