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The video I promised myself I'd never make. Luckily for everyone who wants to hear me going on another condescending rant about the Titan, I've had to delay my next video. I don't have enough time to make a decent 'interim video', so here we are. Rather than just summarising the hearings, this video is intended to clear up a few common misconceptions. Most of the info and visuals are from the USCG hearing which can be found here: https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/ 3D model of the Titan used for the thumbnail: "OceanGate Titan Submersible" (https://skfb.ly/oIG8B) by dylanheyes is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Kamiokande detector cascade failure: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/kamio.html 00:00 Intro 02:46 'Carbon Fiber can't be used in compression' 05:10 'Submarines should be spherical' 07:07 Hull monitoring: sales pitch vs reality 11:50 The ballast system: not as weird as it looked 13:14 The viewport: probably ok. Probably. 14:47 Various procedural failures 19:03 Selling an 'experience'