• Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    From what I remember it was supposed to be a simgle use vehicle that they kept using.The CF worked great those few time but would eventually wear out because of stress fractures. That’s what I remember from when the accident happened so I could be wrong.

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      2 months ago

      I think “great” carries a sort of connotation as if engineers expect it might work once or twice. From the sounds of it, the better description of the submersible for the surviving trips might be that it worked miraculously. Basically divine intervention that they made it back even once.