The point is that it should have been reported at the time. Not reporting it allows for further transgressions (if that were the case) or a "metoo" attitude. Cannot hide the fact that it takes the focus off the earlier debarcle where no one is charged or found guilty but money is still paid to the "other" party.

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

One of the architects of the voice , Thomas Mayo, letting the truth behind it come out....

https://youtu.be/655mzGRmkZw

https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/the ... homas_mayo

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Just one big money grab.

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Chris O'Keefe
R43136
Ex WO Chippy
19th MOBI Intake
July 65 to July 85
HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra.

Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!

Belonging to a union with a "less than democratic" attitude.

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

Interesting clip on Titan disaster.

https://youtu.be/4dka29FSZac

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Well, I can see a number of fail points straight away.

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

Only needed one at that depth.

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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
R94714
Ex-CPOMTP(D)5
Jan'65 Leeuwin Intake (10th) - Jan'66 Nirimba Intake (20th)
Jan'65 to Mar '88
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Stalwart, Samarai, Lae, Penguin, Curlew, Buccaneer, Navy Office, Barbette, Cairns, RANTTU (based in Port Moresby), Stirling, Bunbury.

Only a couple! The biggest fail point was the ego of the CEO and his view that innovation and risk was preferred to established, proven tested concepts rules and safety, because he "knew" his untested technology was best. Unfortunately a disaster waiting to happen.

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

A 5 inch thick carbon composite tube with titanium rings glued on either end. Would be like popping a Pringles container.

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

These two You Tube articles offer a little more insight into potential causes.

Oceangate Sub Construction Details and Implosion

youtube.com/watch?v=CfsBNAR5HTA

LUXFER carbon composite manufacture
youtube.com/watch?v=ZbMb85IenJA
This shows the difference between the carbon composite layup on a cylinder against that shown in the video for the submersible

Oceangate Titan: analysis of an insultingly predictable failure

youtube.com/watch?v=VaOVYkWgpcM

When we used to manufacture the GRP polyester resin/chopped strand/woven roving mix hatches for the Oberon class submarines (not associated with the pressure hull), the most important task was to ensure that there were NO air bubbles in the laminate (around 12mm thick). At the diving depths of the Oberons any air bubbles in the laminate could travel and delaminate the hatches. We did recommend a vacuum chamber to assist with air bubble removal (in the course of laminate layup/manufacture) but the design authority said that would be in contravention of the original design process (original build in Scotland).

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond