We have approached the underwater world, in just over a century, for: scientific exploration, need (for a long time "recoveries" and more recently "economic activities", connections, ...), tourism/entertainment. In any case "risky activities".
The risk has always been perceived little or underestimated since diving has become a mass and fashionable activity.
With a brief digression, regarding the TITAN, we will try to answer a fundamental point: not how "safe" the vehicle was, but "why".
What contempt for life one must have, to slip into a 5 meter long steel capsule, be sealed inside it, and immerse oneself in absolute darkness, with external temperatures close to zero, unable to communicate with the world, knowing that one has an oxygen reserve of only 90 hours? To be able to tell friends "I saw the wreck of the Titanic"?
We will not only make a "common sense" speech but a reference to "Murphy's law": never leave anything to chance and identify the dangers in time.
In the episode of Thursday 29 June at 21.00 pm we will have as guests:
- ing. Stephen Brizzolara (Professor of Marine and Oceanic Engineering in the Department of Aerospace and Oceanic Engineering at Virginia Tech, and co-director of the Virginia Tech Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics)
- adm. Massimo Vianello (Staff officer on leave, specialized in mine countermeasures)
- ing. Gian Carlo Poddighe (former naval engineering officer and industrial manager with experience in international JVs)
See you there!
Image: OceanGate
