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0 pointslosvedir2y ago0 comments

While the physical trauma would have been instantaneous, they might have known it was going to happen. James Cameron just said in an interview[0] that they had a sensor system inside which detects when the hull is starting to fail, and that they probably had warning because they had dropped their weights to ascend.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThZLhNF_xg

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vanattab2y ago

How do we know the weights where dropped before the immplosion

chiph2y ago

Once they locate the wreckage, if the weights aren't nearby that's a strong sign they were detached before the implosion. They would have fallen to a different location on the seafloor than the hull because they're denser and have a smaller cross-section, thus not affected as much by the hydrodynamics during the fall.

lamontcg2y ago

I thought the drop weights were held on by electromagnets--essentially a dead-man switch kind of fail-safe. So therefore when the power failed due to the implosion the weights would drop.

ikekkdcjkfke2y ago

Not an expert, but seeing hydrolic press videos using carbon fibre it snaps instantly, also seeing ocean gate videos they don't cross weave the carbon fibre

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