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  • Опубликовано: 25 окт 2021
  • A quick tour inside the manned submersible Alvin personnel sphere aboard R/V Atlantis in Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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  • @camwow13
    @camwow13 Год назад +446

    I think I'll take this one down to the Titanic next time

    • @Edward135i
      @Edward135i Год назад +55

      It has been to the Titanic many times Alvin is 59 years old and has be proven to be safe over and over.

    • @rowinglove4ever
      @rowinglove4ever Год назад +35

      ​@@Edward135iAlvin have too many safety features if something gone wrong! The other one had just a tablet

    • @moultriemanicmechani
      @moultriemanicmechani Год назад +6

      ​@@Edward135ithey just finished recertifying it with the new pressure hull , three ports in front instead of 1

    • @backfromcuba
      @backfromcuba Год назад +19

      Yeah. This looks betterer. Not so implody and deathy.

    • @KimoKimochii
      @KimoKimochii Год назад +22

      it’s missing a wireless controller, i’ll pass

  • @imnotjoe
    @imnotjoe Год назад +187

    The Chad Alvin vs the virgin Titan

  • @eldrago19
    @eldrago19 Год назад +70

    The difference between this and the Titan is like the meme about the difference between tech enthusiasts and tech workers.
    Tech enthusiasts have every smart device they can lay their hands on.
    Tech workers have a computer and a printer and a gun in case the printer makes a noise they don't recognise.

    • @BlackJackPVI
      @BlackJackPVI Год назад +4

      @@missingsig It's cringe, but he is right.

    • @margaretalbrecht4650
      @margaretalbrecht4650 Год назад +1

      So in your analogy, the Titan is the tech worker and Alvin is the tech enthusiast? That's backward. Alvin is the professional. The Titan was the enthusiastic amateur (who, it turns out, should have left it to the professional who know what they're doing).

    • @hyperdude144
      @hyperdude144 Год назад +6

      @@margaretalbrecht4650 The Alvin is the tech worker, of course. Multiple redundant and analogue systems, for when digitals crap out.

    • @margaretalbrecht4650
      @margaretalbrecht4650 Год назад

      @@hyperdude144 The post you're talking about has the tech worker having bare bones and the tech enthusiast having all the bells and whistles.
      But that's not the case. Alvin had all the bells and whistles. Titan was bare bones. (Have you seen video of the interior? Bare bones is the perfect description of it.)

    • @xmlthegreat
      @xmlthegreat Год назад

      ​@@margaretalbrecht4650you misunderstand. Titan was built with all this tech googaws, such as real time hull health monitoring. It looked spartan but it had flashy tech that sounded good to idiots. Meanwhile Alvin has an old timey compass and analogue systems in case the computers fail. They can run without the shiny shit. Titan could not.

  • @Xphyzeek
    @Xphyzeek Год назад +125

    The chad Sphered Titanium hull of Alvin vs the Carbon fiber toilet paper roll of Oceangate Titan.

  • @evanaltman9286
    @evanaltman9286 Год назад +165

    Alvin has a perfect safety record btw. One time it flooded and sank, but it was recovered a year later and put back into service

    • @fixman88
      @fixman88 Год назад +46

      THIS. A lot of people don't know that. It happened due to two steel cables breaking while it was being transported, causing it to fall into the water with the hatch open. Three crew members were inside but they escaped. Once they found it the Aluminaut sub was used to attach cables and nets to it and it was lifted up to 50 feet where it was slowly carried back to Woods Hole.
      In other words, it sank...but it got better.

    • @Fekillix
      @Fekillix Год назад +24

      Nothing on the current Alvin is shared with the sub that sank

    • @stephenthompson6982
      @stephenthompson6982 Год назад +7

      When the Alvin sunk the crew had left sandwiches behind & what they discovered was that at the depth the Alvin sunk, the sandwiches were well preserved, which led researchers to believe that the Titanic could also be in a good state of preservation (which due to the iron eating bacteria, Halomonas titanicae, is not the case).

    • @nicholasrice8693
      @nicholasrice8693 Год назад

      They dropped it.. lol

    • @ser_igel
      @ser_igel Год назад +1

      @@Fekillix so it's like the ship of theseus

  • @LaPulgaM
    @LaPulgaM Год назад +11

    The Titan, it all works with just one switch.
    The Alvin, thousands of switches.

  • @joehum174
    @joehum174 Год назад +48

    It is rare to see someone who has mastered their craft as well as this guy has. He knows that machine cold

  • @timestampterrysassistant7638
    @timestampterrysassistant7638 Год назад +7

    Alvin’s engineers need a raise 💰

  • @Zagoreni02A
    @Zagoreni02A Год назад +53

    If we consider that Alvin is launched and commissioned in 1964, she is in service for 59 or so years now. Wow!!! With exception of that little accident where she sunk due cable snaping and crew having hatch open, recovered and recommissioned. Its amazing but you can see difference how submersible is built. No game controller, no carbon fibre, its true sub. Heck this thing is far older then I am.

    • @sparrowlt
      @sparrowlt Год назад +9

      but nothing of when Alvin was first made is left... its the best example of a ship of Theseus.. the sphere was replaced..the electronics, the video systems, the coms, the thrusters , the batteries, the tanks, the external panels.. the skids..

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 Год назад +2

      @@sparrowltbut there is continuity in the parts to the original Alvin, therefore it is still the same submersible.

    • @zackakai5173
      @zackakai5173 Год назад +6

      @@connormclernon26 well that is literally what the Ship of Theseus question is about.

    • @tobiaswichert4843
      @tobiaswichert4843 Год назад

      The game controller itself is not a bad choice, those are really refined control devices. But it being wireless is so much more questionable, though.

    • @Zagoreni02A
      @Zagoreni02A Год назад

      @@tobiaswichert4843 Controller may work perfectly but as you say, fact that was wireless, that was what bugging me most. You cannot control such complex machine as submersible with a wireless controller, 100 things could go wrong.

  • @TheDarkKRoo
    @TheDarkKRoo Год назад +11

    I want to sleep in this thing. looks so cozy and safe.

  • @netkongen
    @netkongen Год назад +136

    The thick titanium sphere pressure hull never fails. It is rock solid.

    • @fbportnoy
      @fbportnoy Год назад +10

      Only the port holes are possible weak spots. And hatch.

    • @deshawnclark4459
      @deshawnclark4459 Год назад +20

      Carbon fiber is better lol

    • @krishnendusamanta2900
      @krishnendusamanta2900 Год назад +6

      ​@@deshawnclark4459😆😆😆😆😆😆 really

    • @g_pazzini
      @g_pazzini Год назад +6

      cylinder carbon fiber hull is the best.. sorry kidding..

    • @HydroSnips
      @HydroSnips Год назад +11

      Billionaire CEO: Carbon Fiber’s just as good as titanium! And cheaper!
      First Dive: Still really stoked with my carbon fiber hull, so good! And cheap!
      Second Dive: Almost routine now, hull still as good as new! And cheap!
      Third Dive: Going great as ever, still really happy! And richer!
      Fourth Dive: Wow, is there nothing this carbon fiber can’t do? So awesome! So cheap!
      Fifth Dive: Another day another awesome dive to the bottom of the occAubub………..

  • @michaeliceman5512
    @michaeliceman5512 Год назад +10

    Alvin is lowkey one of the most impressive machines humanity ever built

  • @adonislimes6156
    @adonislimes6156 Год назад +62

    In light of the Titan tragedy...
    This is what a NAVSEA & ABS certified and rigorously tested submersible looks like.

    • @owenswabi
      @owenswabi Год назад +7

      In light of, not in lieu of

    • @gastonbell108
      @gastonbell108 Год назад +9

      Alvin would cost roughly $50 million to replace. The Titan cost a maximum of $5 million. You really can't adequately compare the two, Titan was literally closer to a soapbox derby car than it was to Alvin.

    • @Jman926
      @Jman926 Год назад

      @@gastonbell108 Good point. 1/10 the cost to replace the vessel; no amount of $ can replace lost lives. First thing I thought was why didn't they use the proven technology/design of the Alvin when planning this? The deep sea is no place to cut costs and experiment with cheaper methods, especially when lives are at stake...

    • @tylerchambers6246
      @tylerchambers6246 Год назад +8

      @@gastonbell108 If the dead CEO touted it as a deep submergence vessel, I'm gonna compare it to other deep submergence vessels. And compared to them, it sucks. It sucks with more than 5000 PSI.

    • @thaddeus5944
      @thaddeus5944 Год назад

      @@gastonbell108with that logic, a $10000 car cannot be compared to a $100000 just because of the price difference? makes sense

  • @gaussian18
    @gaussian18 Год назад +11

    Although Alvin is some 60 or so years old, almost every component, including the pressure hull, has been upgraded/replaced at some point. Very few if any components are original to the early '60s version. A true ship of Theseus.

  • @tbasmwmc
    @tbasmwmc Год назад +10

    There's a damn good reason for everything that went into that.

  • @Dmarcoot
    @Dmarcoot Год назад +5

    The titan team, the ENTIRE team, wouldn’t be qualified to clean the Alvin

  • @jonaweber8736
    @jonaweber8736 Год назад +26

    This guy is so meek and yet I’m absolutely sure he’s a giant

  • @slo3337
    @slo3337 Год назад +7

    You should improve the sub by cutting it in half and putting a carbon tube glued to each end in the middle

  • @Laminar-Flow
    @Laminar-Flow Год назад +5

    THIS is how an engineer should discuss his work. THIS is how engineers should engineer innovation within the bounds of the rulebook.
    Stockton Rush was an engineer, but flaunted his LG controller & completely digital interface housed within his uncertified sub. World of difference.

  • @masaharumorimoto4761
    @masaharumorimoto4761 Год назад +4

    Crazy to think my grandfather worked on Alvin! I remember looking at his Alvin patches on his airforce jacket.

  • @George-zj9rr
    @George-zj9rr Год назад +16

    Now THAT is how you design a fuckin sub!

  • @JDRichard
    @JDRichard Год назад +11

    This is a proper system designed to go to 6000 m depth. All of the controls one would expect. Obviously completely certified and again the shape is a dome.

  • @TykeToobin
    @TykeToobin Год назад +34

    Thank you for an amazing video. I've been interested in this sub since I was a boy in the 80's and with the finding of the Titanic. In awe of what it could do then and even all these years later it still makes my jaw drop after seeing this video. It's a
    truly stunning work of engineering with no thought missed for safety, even though nothing is without danger or problems. After recent events it has hit home again what an unforgiving environment it is in the depths of the ocean, it's not meant for casual tourism. The amount of dives Alvin has made shows what can be done when there thorough thought and careful maintenance involved. Love the attitude of the guy as well. Top notch. Cheers.

    • @slrdave
      @slrdave  Год назад +2

      Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @dopenerd
    @dopenerd Год назад +1

    To me ALVIN is a trusted name, I’ve heard of this sub for decades now.

  • @JGV_IX
    @JGV_IX Год назад +5

    This is what I would expect for a $250k ticket…not the surplus store DIY special. I think if the Titan victims had seen this video - they’d have thought twice before getting into that sinking cigar tube.
    What is super sad is that Hamish Harding went down to the deepest point in the ocean with Victor Vescovo in that magnificent sub “Limiting Factor”, and still fell for the assurances fed by Ocean Gate’s late CEO.

  • @philipb2847
    @philipb2847 Год назад +4

    The Alvin is the pioneer of submarines. Goes through full certification.

  • @nmccw3245
    @nmccw3245 24 дня назад

    Alvin is my favorite deep submersible of Theseus. Every upgrade has made it better and safer. 👍

  • @henryvasquez8629
    @henryvasquez8629 Год назад +3

    Alvin is a icon In the submersible world

  • @cafb8525
    @cafb8525 Год назад +12

    Rush was like we don’t need redundancy. Just a game controller and cookies

  • @darkhelmutt3417
    @darkhelmutt3417 Год назад +35

    Yo, where's the USB port? I need to pop in my Mad Catz controller for some hot Unreal Tournament action (or we can play Tribes, whatever)

    • @griffin1366
      @griffin1366 Год назад

      fr fr
      is there chronus support?

  • @acefighterpilot
    @acefighterpilot Год назад +9

    This is so cool, looks like a great place to work!

  • @piotrsta790
    @piotrsta790 Год назад +10

    Man this thing compared to Titan looks like space ship

    • @SawdEndymon
      @SawdEndymon Год назад +3

      The thing can *literally detach* the cabin and go balistically to the surface.
      *I’m not kidding*

    • @ImieNazwiskoOK
      @ImieNazwiskoOK 2 месяца назад

      @@SawdEndymon That was in the older versions. Currently it can individually detach each thruster, arm and the "basket", Since those are by far the most prone to getting stuck on something.

  • @Dasycottus
    @Dasycottus Год назад +14

    This is probably the most capable research submersible ever built. The constant updates have kept it at the top of its game since it was first built.
    AFIK, this Alvin shares no original components with the first iteration of the submersible.

    • @ser_igel
      @ser_igel Год назад +3

      are you sure?
      i don't know about scientific equipment on these subs but Limiting Factor can go like 5km deeper (8 acthchthually but we don't have 14km deep places yet)

    • @evangovedas2320
      @evangovedas2320 Год назад +2

      ​@@ser_igel It's also smaller, only holding 2 people instead of 3 on Alvin. That alone makes it less capable as a research sub, and therefore means it's also less likely to be supported by the scientific community. Alvin isn't neccessarily more capable just by it's own merits, it's more that it works as a platform that scientists can modify and build on top of for each mission.
      Maybe limiting factor will become that to some extent as well, but currently it isn''t.

    • @JSTRonline2
      @JSTRonline2 Год назад +1

      Are you familiar with the thought experiment, 'The Ship of Theseus? ' in the field of identity metaphysics?

    • @POVwithRC
      @POVwithRC Год назад

      ​@@JSTRonline2People bring it up, but it's mostly meaningless for the day to day.

  • @lucasandresen5238
    @lucasandresen5238 Год назад +10

    See now this looks safe

  • @Bilson420
    @Bilson420 Год назад +14

    Watch this guy give an excellent in depth tour of his tried and true DSV design, and then watch Stockton rush's exact same video tour he did with a reporter... It's fucking unbelievable... This guy is giving a thorough run down and explanation of all the features and safety backups of the sub, while Mr. Rush is just waving around a PlayStation controller and laughing and bragging about the fact his sub only has 1 button... It's a shame Stockton had to kill 4 other poor souls with his incompetence and arrogance

  • @fredharvey2720
    @fredharvey2720 Год назад +2

    I remember seeing TV specials of this thing as a kid in the early 80s, maybe even the 70s

  • @will5989
    @will5989 Год назад +12

    Oh, this is what they’re supposed to be built & look like?

  • @craigmuranaka8016
    @craigmuranaka8016 Год назад +49

    Alvin is an old design but it really works well. Definitely not running from a game controller.

    • @cosmicinsane516
      @cosmicinsane516 Год назад +7

      The game controller was one of the few good design choices they made on Titan.

    • @autumn6994
      @autumn6994 Год назад +10

      @@cosmicinsane516 absolutely not, wireless(!) consumer grade controller with no backup steering control is a terrible design, it would be fine for controlling drone or a periscope on a sub etc.. but not on a mission critical equipment. This thing was just a terrible design all around.

    • @cosmicinsane516
      @cosmicinsane516 Год назад +5

      @@autumn6994 Yeah wireless was sketchy, but other than that I would have no qualms about it. I’d worry far more about computer controlled thrusters.

    • @krihervor
      @krihervor Год назад

      @@cosmicinsane516 I was being unconscious... everything was very precarious in OceanGate. these things must be like airplanes. tested and perfect so as not to fail unless it is a human error.

    • @mediocreman6323
      @mediocreman6323 Год назад +3

      That game controller was only a minor issue amongst the many terrible flaws of this “submersible”.

  • @RotNcroch
    @RotNcroch Год назад +4

    I can't believe he went with the more qualified team to build this sub and didn't use young kids straight outta college.

  • @TimDoscher-wj6xh
    @TimDoscher-wj6xh Год назад +7

    This stuff is incredible, thank you for sharing!

  • @kvol1668
    @kvol1668 Год назад +3

    Alvin looks like a spaceship

  • @nachoolo
    @nachoolo Год назад +19

    It's incredible to see the amount of safety measurements and redundancies in this sub has compared to the Titan.
    It does show how baflfing that sumergiable was. They basically designed it to fail.

  • @leewightman8619
    @leewightman8619 Год назад +8

    Its crazy how basic the titan was compared to properly built deep sea subs

    • @globalcitizenn
      @globalcitizenn Год назад +3

      Stockton had no money. He just wanted to make money.

  • @Whitguy86
    @Whitguy86 Год назад +5

    I'm glad that they are still upgrading it instead of just scrapping it like other companies would have done.

    • @joehoy9242
      @joehoy9242 Год назад +3

      People who insist that government is inefficient compared to the private sector would do well to note this.

    • @xmlthegreat
      @xmlthegreat Год назад

      They would be insane to scrap this thing, it took 4 years just to build the titanium sphere in the 60s... It's more difficult than building a space capsule hull.

  • @Dmarcoot
    @Dmarcoot Год назад +1

    Alvin is legendary.

  • @timkaine5098
    @timkaine5098 Год назад +37

    I’d personally trust my life to three inch thick titanium over carbon fiber any day of the week

    • @somebodyelseuk
      @somebodyelseuk Год назад +10

      It's about having the right tool for the job. I'd have no qualms about visiting Titanic in Alvin, but I'd rather have my race car made of carbon fibre than titanium... made by someone who knows what they're doing.

    • @Jman926
      @Jman926 Год назад +2

      @@somebodyelseuk That is until you're racing at the abyssal plain 😄

    • @ser_igel
      @ser_igel Год назад +3

      @@Jman926 if ur racing at the abyssal plain in a car probably ur not a very good driver..

    • @hello-rq8kf
      @hello-rq8kf Год назад

      @@somebodyelseukto be fair a race car made of titanium will turn any car you crash into to tissue paper before it kills you

    • @pcblah
      @pcblah Год назад

      @@ser_igel or you're a really good driver. I meam, depending on intent.

  • @studydude
    @studydude Год назад +19

    ALVIN does not use an XBOX Game Controller to pilot.

  • @brummienik4273
    @brummienik4273 Год назад +17

    I have never really looked at the world of submersibles until the Titan tragedy. I am stunned by the difference in the extent of equipment between the two (game controller and strip lights versus a complete mini-sub). I always thought trips to the Titanic could only take place with fully licensed vehicles. What am I missing ?

  • @BeKindToBirds
    @BeKindToBirds Год назад

    Wonderful walkthrough, cheers.

  • @JDRichard
    @JDRichard Год назад +1

    Sir, what a great job you have

  • @romigithepope
    @romigithepope Год назад +24

    Now compare this to the Titan. These people understood the risk.

    • @somebodyelseuk
      @somebodyelseuk Год назад +1

      I might be wrong, but in this case, 'these people' were the US Navy.

    • @romigithepope
      @romigithepope Год назад +1

      @@somebodyelseukI should have been more clear. WHOI understands the risk of deep sea exploration.

    • @somebodyelseuk
      @somebodyelseuk Год назад +6

      @@romigithepope No, no, I agree with you. There are plenty of people who understand what's required. Don't know how it's being reported in the States, but in the UK, the media is going on like this was some pioneering mission. They don't seem to 'get' that our Navy regularly dives deeper, and that James Cameron alone has been down to the Titanic more than 30 times and has also been 3x deeper. I'm far from even being an enthusiast, let alone an expert, but from what I hear, over 200 people have been down to the Titanic, and a fair few have been down the Marina Trench - 3x deeper?
      The Titan disaster is a big deal, because after 60 years of doing this kind of thing, it's the first time there's been an implosion, as I understand it, and what a shocker, it happened to be run by some cowboy operation who tried to do things on the cheap.

    • @tomsmith3045
      @tomsmith3045 Год назад

      @@somebodyelseuk US Navy and Woods Hole, a private company, working together. The group that found the Titanic in the first place I think. The purpose really to find information on two lost US submarines during the cold war.

  • @flack3
    @flack3 Год назад +4

    Hello fellow internet experts! After mastering vaccines and virus, war strategy and economics, I'm glad we have a new subject we can all argue about together while we pretend we have a phd on the matter. See you around!

    • @steelersguy74
      @steelersguy74 Год назад

      Don’t forget election laws and the Romanian legal system!

  • @POVwithRC
    @POVwithRC Год назад +1

    Mercury trim system. Coolest thing I learnt today.

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick682 Год назад +5

    Hey, a titanium sphere that doesn’t dive to the actual limits of its “design parameters”. Not a parallel latitudinal woven carbon fiber cylinder that operates at the upper bound of its designed tolerance (though clearly those tolerances weren’t thoroughly modeled or tested with regards to cyclic failure)

  • @Festivejelly
    @Festivejelly Год назад

    This chap is really interesting to listen to.

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan Год назад +8

    5000 dives, tried and true!

  • @johnevans6399
    @johnevans6399 Год назад +2

    Coffee machine? Toilet? Day bed? Get this sorted!

  • @TurfShifter
    @TurfShifter Год назад +3

    So this is what a submersible is supposed to look like. Having watched various videos about Titan it was clearly criminal in its design.

  • @stevepacheco4673
    @stevepacheco4673 Год назад +7

    this guy is great.

  • @fixman88
    @fixman88 Год назад +20

    While I was watching this I noticed something that I thought was darkly ironic:
    Both the Titan and the Alvin have/had devices by Logitech on board.
    In the case of the Titan it was the infamous game controller that was used to actually control the sub.
    In the case of the Alvin it's the little white keyboard with integrated trackpad he's using to click on things on the screen where the touch screen was being finicky (I have a slightly fancier version with auto backlit keys).
    The difference being while the controller was the only thing controlling the Titan the keyboard in the Alvin is completely secondary (as is the computer it's connected to) since all the Alvin's systems are analog and can be controlled by switches.

    • @fdsman
      @fdsman Год назад +8

      The controller likely had nothing to do with why the Titan imploded, it was merely a symptom of the cost cutting and cavalier attitude Rush took to engineering and safety practices.

    • @sparrowlt
      @sparrowlt Год назад +1

      the controller wasnt all that was steering Titan.. they controled the thrusters throught at least one computer.. the controller was just an interface with that that could be moved arround in the cockpit.. you still could pilot it from the computer or other controller (as they had spares).
      Imagine had they also installed a fancy Thrustmaster warthog joystick

    • @incognitoburrito6020
      @incognitoburrito6020 Год назад +2

      @@fdsman I think the reason people bring it up so often is that the controller is also a _symbol_ of the cost-cutting, and it's one that pretty much everyone on the internet understands at a glance. "They couldn't even spring for an on-brand!?" Most people don't know much about sub design, but any moderately serious console gamer could find problems with the Titan controller.

  • @geemanbmw
    @geemanbmw Год назад +1

    The magic to alvin is it's a sphere

  • @ibrahimshaffi6282
    @ibrahimshaffi6282 Год назад +5

    Ill take this over a game controller and a singular button any day😂

  • @anthonygambitta6220
    @anthonygambitta6220 Год назад +11

    This is how you build a serious sub, .lots of technology, but basic operations, but very safe materials- titanium titanium titanium!! No carbon fiber crew sphere.

    • @StrikeNoir105E
      @StrikeNoir105E Год назад +2

      The Titan iirc had both Titanium and Carbon Fiber for its pressure hull. It sounds good on paper - combine two lightweight yet tough materials - but there's a reason no one in the DSV community recommends using both materials in combination: because their different properties combined actually makes for a hull that doesn't withstand repeated dives under deep sea pressure that well. And since the CEO was cheapskate enough to not perform hull integrity inspections on the submersible after every dive the hull weakened with each dive until it led to the implosion.

  • @jezzter4293
    @jezzter4293 Год назад

    Alvin is amazing, I didn't know it was still in use. The current technology level is awesome, so much safety built in with analogue controls to be sure it works. The people who built Titan should have learned from this.

  • @POVwithRC
    @POVwithRC Год назад +1

    A bright mind.

  • @TwistedMind001
    @TwistedMind001 Год назад +6

    That cabin looks roomier that it actually is due to camera effects

  • @geemanbmw
    @geemanbmw Год назад +2

    Alvin is disassembled inspected and reassembled every 5 years and then inspected by the US NAVY and is owned by the navy

  • @NotSure416
    @NotSure416 Год назад +3

    Forward this to anyone you know building their own Deep Sea Submersible.

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis9544 Год назад +1

    I WOULD FEEL SAFE GOING ON A DIVE ON THE TITANIC WITH BRUCE BECAUSE HE IS A PROFESSIONAL AND HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING UNLIKE OCEANGATE WHO I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN AND ARE A BUNCH OF AMATEURS ! ! !💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick682 Год назад +8

    This thing can go to 6,000 meters but it never will, it probably wont go below 4500 because the safety factor of giving yourself 25-30% margins on that design limit.

    • @mikas2051
      @mikas2051 Год назад +3

      I believe, that the 6000 meters is certified depth, including the safety margin.

    • @slrdave
      @slrdave  Год назад +2

      @@mikas2051 That's correct. There is a safety factor that goes beyond 6000 meters.

  • @arteoom8718
    @arteoom8718 Год назад +17

    All this control panels seems effective ,it's not giving me that inspirational feeling

  • @Jasshands1
    @Jasshands1 Год назад +7

    im a pilot, and operating a sub seems way more complicated and life and death than any aircraft ive flown

    • @emilyrobinson6080
      @emilyrobinson6080 Год назад +2

      If an airplane has something go catastrophically wrong, you tend to have less time to sit around and wait for the other shoe to fall. A submarine (if youre not lucky enough to have it suddenly and instantaneously become someone elses problem) becomes a long protracted game of hurry up and wait

    • @zackakai5173
      @zackakai5173 Год назад +4

      @@emilyrobinson6080 I mean it's all *highly* situational. If your engine goes out at 15,000 feet and you've got your choice of seven different airports in gliding distance to land at, you're probably gonna be fine. It's when you lose power on takeoff and you've got minimal airspeed and altitude with nowhere good to land nearby that you're in trouble.

  • @stevemull2002
    @stevemull2002 Год назад

    A very interesting vid, not sure i am brave enough to go down in this Sub, but it is impressive

  • @dannyarcher6370
    @dannyarcher6370 Год назад +8

    Titan had a single button. Much simpler.

  • @steelersguy74
    @steelersguy74 Год назад +4

    I was wondering if analog was preferable to digital at least for stuff like this.

  • @Bryan-cs9to
    @Bryan-cs9to Год назад +1

    This is proper engineering

  • @JOlivier2011
    @JOlivier2011 Год назад

    now THIS is a sub. So cool.

  • @ToneX-hj6ki
    @ToneX-hj6ki Год назад

    Looks a little better than that anxious crew in that exploding coffin

  • @famousamoso7
    @famousamoso7 Год назад +1

    Its amazing how much this sub is a cross of an Apollo module and a space ex module. And that the Titan sub is nowhere near the technological advancement of either. But Stockon would leave you to believe it was.
    Titan has 1 button on the sub and use a touch screen computer/keyboard/game controller for EVERYTHING. Where as if done right it should look like this sub and have analog controls in case the PC crashes.

  • @mifune9634
    @mifune9634 Год назад +3

    @ 4:44
    DSV Alvin Guide: It's funny haha, It didn't switch. Oh alright. How about this?
    Never give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.

  • @seagie382
    @seagie382 Год назад +2

    oh look its a metal sphere able to take work-fatigue strain whoa

    • @AndrewCZ47
      @AndrewCZ47 Год назад +1

      Cylindrical hull is fine at least down to 5 kilometers (see Aluminaut). Has to be metal though.

  • @POVwithRC
    @POVwithRC Год назад +2

    No wonder OceanGate was a pariah. It takes a lot to do dangerous things safely. A lot that they did not see fit to do.

  • @NurmYokai
    @NurmYokai Год назад +2

    "Redundant," "redundant," "redundant," ... 'redundant redundant.'
    Well engineered, with safety always in mind.

  • @EbianBun
    @EbianBun Год назад +1

    This actually looks robust unlike the titan

  • @Mikeb8134
    @Mikeb8134 Год назад +1

    thanks

  • @BLITZKRIEG1
    @BLITZKRIEG1 Год назад

    so very cool

  • @oswaldcobblepot502
    @oswaldcobblepot502 Год назад +11

    You mean to tell me that the Alvin isnt controlled by a cheesy $40 Xbox controller?

    • @jonathantan2469
      @jonathantan2469 Год назад +2

      They didn't have Xboxes in the 1960s when they made DSV Alvin...

    • @gastonbell108
      @gastonbell108 Год назад

      Even less inspiring: there's a 50 year old white Navy guy right there. He likely even knows what he's doing and won't let you be negligent for profit. What a downer.

  • @leewightman8619
    @leewightman8619 Год назад

    Analogue i like that

  • @Swampthing401
    @Swampthing401 Год назад

    a good redundant system incase the ballast doesnt release, could be to drop the arms from the vehicle. Wonder how much mass they have.

    • @xmlthegreat
      @xmlthegreat Год назад +1

      He mentioned it in the video, everything can be dropped off in an emergency. Arms, hull thrusters, cage, batteries, ballasting system...

  • @davey5728
    @davey5728 Год назад

    I feel this one is safe

  • @geeky_gunner
    @geeky_gunner Год назад +2

    How on Earth did the people of Oceangate get fooled by a fool?

  • @bobbybandz9194
    @bobbybandz9194 Год назад

    I'm thinking some of the tips are for if you somehow manage to crash onto an island etc and are stranded on land as such.

    • @odomobo
      @odomobo Год назад +2

      It's a first aid kit they got at the store, so the safety tips are for camping and such. Pretty funny in the context of a sub

  • @joe_scotto
    @joe_scotto Год назад +5

    How does the welding of the two pressure hull halves work? I would assume that's the weakest point of the hull.

    • @fixman88
      @fixman88 Год назад +5

      A *proper* weld is just as strong as the metal pieces being welded.

    • @HydroSnips
      @HydroSnips Год назад +4

      They’d x-ray the heck out of it to ensure no air-pockets or voids etc, and if they found one then they might make a whole new one(?). They weld hull components on nuke subs too and QC-check every millimetre.

    • @tomsmith3045
      @tomsmith3045 Год назад

      I think they had to weld it, because it's titanium. As I understand it, each half was hot formed from flat plate into a hemisphere, and then welding together. Tricky to do, but easier and probably more consistent and stronger than trying to cast titanium. Believe titanium has to be vacuum cast because it's so reactive when heated.

    • @zackakai5173
      @zackakai5173 Год назад

      A properly done weld should (in theory, anyway) be as strong as the material around it. I would think the viewing windows would be the weaker points.

    • @xmlthegreat
      @xmlthegreat Год назад +2

      It's electron beam welded. This type of welding has the weld sometimes stronger than the material around it. The windows are made of really thick acrylic and cone shaped so the pressure pushes them inwards and strengthens the seal.

  • @ColtonRDean
    @ColtonRDean Год назад +3

    Is it still ALVIN? Or is it the ship of Theseus at this point?

    • @Werepie
      @Werepie Год назад +1

      I believe Alvin's gotten the Theseus treatment about three times over by now!

  • @audgusto
    @audgusto Год назад +7

    Analog is best

  • @zackpoo
    @zackpoo Год назад

    hey atleast this one isnt controlled via gaming controller. great sub btw

  • @io5329
    @io5329 Год назад +9

    Из дубина интернета извукли смо Алвина!

  • @renorailfanning5465
    @renorailfanning5465 Год назад +4

    Where's the Playstation controller? I'm not going under water without one.

  • @georgewashington938
    @georgewashington938 Год назад +1

    Launched: June 5, 1964

  • @jeffalan3216
    @jeffalan3216 Год назад +5

    Soundly engineered