US navy is testing carbon fiber hulls and has been for some time. It’s not the carbon fiber that caused the problem. It was his lack of knowledge regarding its use.View attachment 477924
It wouldn't be as funny if not for the sheer hubris of Stockton Rush and his assertions that the "rules" (those being known properties of carbon fiber and the unavoidable physics of water pressure in the deep ocean) didn't apply to him.
US navy is testing carbon fiber hulls and has been for some time. It’s not the carbon fiber that caused the problem. It was his lack of knowledge regarding its use.
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Sorry, I thought you were saying CF shouldn’t be used at all.So...yeah. The known properties of carbon fiber. He was not using it properly to build a working pressure hull for that depth, he was doing his own thing and insisting it would be fine because he's a maverick.