I recognize what happens when a CEO is above safety and regulatory and anything else that says "no" to what they are doing, or adds delays or test costs. It's a form of hell.
-Hire young engineers and techs, new grads "motivated, innovative" because they don't know due to lack of experience, and they can be pushed around to cut corners and want to please the CEO.
-Outsource to consultants and leave a critical number such as design depth/safety factor low and it falls between the cracks, literally.
-Save money by buying cheap hardware. The joystick is fine if included in the FMEA. Too cheap for manual switches though, a 1 button control panel?
-Add some new technology, the latest and greatest for the CEO's ego and marketing purposes, and to give the illusion the project team is full of SME's.
"OceanGate’s patented, real time, Acoustic Hull Health Monitoring System provide a robust safety factor." ... listening for the sounds of carbon fiber threads breaking
I found
US 11,119,071 but it's a kindergarten patent. It apparently gives a nice little alert the hull is failing. As the video mentioned, carbon fiber just shatters when it fails. Not like jeans that rip and tear. I'll bet it doesn't even work, I see no sensors on the interior.
Data on carbon fiber fatigue I think is relatively little, compared to aviation having tons of data on aluminum.
"OceanGate will take advantage of lessons learned during the construction of its carbon-hulled Titan submersible, which was originally built for Titanic journeys. Rush said tests that were conducted at the Deep Ocean Test Facility in Annapolis, Md., revealed that the Titan’s hull “showed signs of cyclic fatigue.” As a result, the hull’s depth rating was reduced to 3,000 meters.
“Not enough to get to the Titanic,” Rush said."
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