Originally Posted by
Heat88
I don't understand why anybody still has to do anything experimental with the basic design of deep sea subs anymore. Somebody figured it out 64 years ago when they built one that was able to go down to the Mariana Trench which is the deepest place in all of the oceans and 3 times deeper than where the Titanic is. There should be deep sea tours by now.
You mean like this one?
I was fortunate enough to be assigned to repair this thing on the ship that carries Alvin.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSkEz...ature=youtu.be
The problem is the way the forces scale. There is zero original components on this thing and it has been rebuilt a couple of times over. Here is a good history:
https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/expl...tory-of-alvin/
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