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Crowdfunded Effort Could Build World's 10th Deepest Diving Submersible
An anonymous reader writes with an optimistic, present-tense summary of a crowdfunding project to explore Earth's deep ocean: "The Ictineu 3 will be the 10th deepest diving submersible in the world when it is launched later this year. Compared to its deep diving peers, including Russia's Mirs, Japan's Shinkai 6500, the U.S.'s Alvin,and Cameron's Deep Sea Challenger submersibles, the Ictineu 3 was developed on a shoestring budget. The management partners are self-taught, without formal engineering education. Instead of massive government grants, the project has been funded by a trickle of small grants, sponsorships, and private donors. Along with Karl Stanley, the Ictineu team are heroes to the DIY submariners of the world."
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simply acting on the net
so she is a cam whore
a money sink
When they get into deep water, telling yourself "no pressure" isn't really helpful at all.
Ezekiel 23:20
If it hasn't been launched and tested how can they say it 'will be' the 10th deepest diving sub ever?
"How deep will it dive?"
"All the way to the bottom if we don't stop it."
The real trick is to make it surface again.
Have gnu, will travel.
240 hours/month! Gotta have callouses.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
An anonymous reader writes with an optimistic, present-tense summary of a crowdfunding project to explore Earth's deep ocean: ...Compared to its deep diving peers, including Russia's Mirs, Japan's Shinkai 6500, the U.S.'s Alvin,and Cameron's Deep Sea Challenger submersibles...
There's a rumor a certain Chinese submarine is the current class world depth record holder.
Not trying to out the submitter-editorial staff, but you're not making it difficult to gleam your politics when you leave out the current world record holder.
...without formal engineering education...
What could possibly go wrong?
I hope they have some real engineers designing the thing. Materials behave very differently when under thousands of pounds per square inch pressure - often in counter-intuitive ways.
From what I understand, the submersible hasn't been under water in any significant depth. Already claiming it will be the 10th deepest diving (known) submersible if you don't have the 9th and/or the 11th or something similar already on your resume, is rather bold. For all we know, they might have goofed up and will not reach over 1/3 of their estimated depth due to some oversight. I wish them the best of luck, but design specs are hard to meet when a tiny mistake will turn your whole project into a crumpled ball of matter, filled with water in less than a second.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Those "Russian" Mir submarines were actually built in Finland, at Rauma-Repola’s Lokomo workshop in Tampere.
Actually the delivery was entangled in Cold War politics. Initially, USA did not think that Finland would not have the skill to complete this kind of design and delivery project, but after the initial delivery of two subs, pressure was applied by the CIA and the Pentagon, further production of the MIR had to cease while Cold War nearing its end in the 1980s.
We can send very good cameras down there, and see anything we want to see. Sending people down there -- we have learned -- is horribly more expensive as well as dangerous. Same goes true for Manned Space Flight. but the people continue to think it is very cool. Walking on the moon was a marvelous feat, politically and in engineering. They were lucky.
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