{"id":85410,"date":"2023-06-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85410"},"modified":"2023-06-20T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T01:26:13","slug":"engineering-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85410","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The missing submersible that went into the depths of the North Atlantic, taking tourists down to view the titanic, apparently had a design shortcoming or two, according to at least one whistleblower lawsuit<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department\u2014the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (\u201cPVHO\u201d) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

2700 meters short of the target depth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not exactly close enough for county work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US military learned the hard lessons about building submarines out of parts from the lowest bidder almost 60 years ago. its one of the very rare cases of government learning something before the private sector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The missing submersible that went into the depths of the North Atlantic, taking tourists down to view the titanic, apparently had a design shortcoming or two, according to at least one whistleblower lawsuit: At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department\u2014the viewport at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-told-you-so"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85411,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85410\/revisions\/85411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}