I have no knowledge regarding submarine construction, but GLUE?

Also brought ashore were what appeared to be the titanium flanges. These are the metal rings glued to either end of the Titan's carbon fibre cylindrical hull. The flanges would then have made contact with the end caps.

What evidence can the wreckage provide?

It's somewhere between amazing and frightening where glue is used these days. A properly designed and produced glued joint can be stronger than a "bolted" joint. But, as with a bolted joint, get any step wrong and the joint will fail in an unpredictable manner.

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! has to ask why it took 4 days to shut this ride down? Never mind, it's all about the $'s.

Rollercoaster at North Carolina theme park is closed after huge CRACK is spotted in support pillar.


It's just lucky that it didn't totally fail in that time.

How long to pollute and kill?...


The village that stood up to big oil – and won
wrote:

... the waterway surrounding their houses was running black with oil. Near the outskirts of Dooh’s village of Goi, a pipeline built by Royal Dutch Shell in the 1960s carried oil...

... Later that day, the situation in Goi went from bad to worse. Oil spilled into a local farmer’s house and connected with a cooking fire. The village, its oil-seeped creek and the surrounding mangrove forests erupted into flames...

... more than 23,000 litres of oil had spilled and nearly 40 acres of mangrove forest had burned, poisoning the land and fishponds that were the lifeblood of the village...

... “We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil,” ... six years after the initial leak, Goi was still too polluted to sustain its residents. The Nigerian government ordered them to abandon their homes...

... Shell’s legal team rejected allegations... refused to hand over evidence... The delaying tactics continued... By the time the group of fishermen and farmers heard the court’s verdict, three of the four original plaintiffs in the case, including Dooh’s father, Barizaa, had died of either sickness or old age...

... the Dutch Court found the Nigerian subsidiary SPDC liable for damages caused by the October 2004 oil spill...

... help pave the way for victims of oil pollution around the world to seek justice and compensation from companies who have acted criminally for decades.

The [legal] dominos have since started falling against Shell. In February, the UK supreme court agreed to hear the cases of two other Niger Delta communities...

[Yet...} “That is another round of battle,” Dooh said. “It is the global community that is advocating for green energy. Now you are inviting the world to this environment again for bigger industry for oil production. Is this part of the world the dumping ground? Are we not human beings?” Dooh asked.

How deadly dirty greedy?

All on our only one planet...
Martin

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... And yet the Managers and Directors behind all this?...

The follow up is:

Croydon tram crash: Operators fined £14m after seven people killed
wrote:

... Transport for London (TfL) was fined £10m and Tram Operations Limited (TOL) was fined £4m for failing in their health and safety duties.

The tram, which was carrying 69 people, toppled over on a sharp bend on the morning of 9 November 2016.

Driver Alfred Dorris, 49, was cleared of health and safety offences.

A jury at the Old Bailey cleared him in less than two hours in June.

On Wednesday, operators were also told to pay £500,000 in costs...

... Mr Justice Fraser told the court on the third-day of the sentencing hearing: "This was undoubtedly an accident waiting to happen, quite literally." He added there was a failure to heed warnings about the risk of drivers becoming disorientated in the Sandilands tunnel network on the approach to the curve, and a report of a "near-miss" just days before the crash had been "ignored"...

... The judge called the "complacency" around the inadequate lighting and lack of visual cues in the tunnel "disturbing"...

... The case was brought against the operators by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). Since the accident, new safety measures and systems have been implemented following recommendations...

And what of the chain of authority running up through the organization that disturbingly ignored all the concerns?


Stay safe folks!
Martin

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It looks like that roller coaster with the crack will be out of action for longer.

Another 'break or crack' found in North Carolina roller coaster at Carowinds park.

Sounds like the ride was shut down just in time.

Just another case of Mind over Matter.
They don't mind & we don't matter.

TfL is a government department = taxpayer funded.
ToL is a subsidiary of FirstGroup on a government contract = subsidised by the taxpayer.

The report is in.

Norfolk Southern content with minimum safety too often, regulators say after fiery Ohio derailment.

Norfolk Southern made improvements after one of its trains derailed, caught fire and spilled toxic chemicals near an Ohio town, but the company is nowhere near the “gold standard for safety” it is striving to be, according to federal regulators. Instead, the railroad is too often only willing to meet minimum safety requirements.

The Federal Railroad Administration released its 143-page report on the Atlanta-based railroad’s safety culture Wednesday. The agency has been working on the report for months since thousands of people had to evacuate their homes after the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment.

Poor communication and mistrust between employees and managers are hindering Norfolk Southern’s efforts to improve safety, the report also said. The agency questioned whether the company’s training for employees and managers is adequate.....

Page 6 of the report contains this little gem:

As part of the focused inspection effort, where FRA found non-compliance with safety regulations, FRA is considering enforcement actions against NS

I don't know what such enforcement action could be in the US, but I would hope it would include revoking the "licences" of senior management directly involved in the development and internal enforcement of the safety rules.

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Lawyers!

27 years after the last sequel, proposals in the pipeline to do another...
...with a BIG difference.
Escape from London

This is getting to become worryingly far too frequently seen in the USA news:


San Diego Near Miss - Understaffed Air Traffic Control


Multiple aircraft lined up onto a collision course... The "near-miss" was a mere 100' between passenger aircraft...

And the Air Traffic Controller singularly attempting to juggle FIVE aircraft with only mere seconds to spare?...

On a singular radio frequency where only one operator can speak at a time. On a link that is all too easily inadvertently blocked.

All very time critical, and all critical upon clear consistent planned instructions. All with no time to spare.

And all in poor visibility??!!!


What could possibly go wrong?

And this is an all too often repeated ongoing story across the USA until people die?...


Fly safe?
Martin

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Ronald Reagan, PATCO

<edit>Not just controllers, mechanics too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EujyP_n44DQ

More for the pot...Chickens

RAAC is a lightweight "bubbly" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of about 30 years.
The government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994.

home to roost

A wide range of public buildings have been constructed using a cheap version of concrete that could now be at risk of collapse, experts say.

And the builders are long retired rich and happy...


Standards?

What's them when the standards are voluntary (ignored)...


Stay safe folks?...
Martin

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And the builders are long retired rich and happy...

With a copy of the contract telling the purchaser in 6 point type that after 25 years they need to have it inspected frequently or replace it. Amazing what people sign just to save a penny.

Some, maybe a lot, of these buildings only had/have a design life of 20-30 years. Just think about it, building thrown up in the 1980s are coming to the end of their planned existence, and those thrown up in earlier decades are past that lifespan.... And, oh look, they are decaying.

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Ain't progress a b*tch.
Penfold Manor in Cornwall, bricks & mortar.
Still standing & inhabited for 900 years.
Will the same be said of concrete jungles?

Also note Khufu's pyramid:

Stone blocks and no mortar and 4600 years and still standing...


Things today ain't made like we used to....

Stay safe?
Martin

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Things today ain't made like we used to....

Ain't that the truth.
Even the rich & famous recognised the beauty of craftsmanship
Here's a quote from 1929:

"It changed the speed of life in this country so quickly, and Henry saw things going by the wayside that he wanted to preserve," said Mr Johnson.

Here's another quote:

"In common with most rural parishes, Chedworth suffers from a scarcity of houses, new ones are so costly to build as to put them beyond the reach of the ordinary man," the paper wrote.

Not much changed then in nearly 100 years.
Not much craftsmanship in pouring concrete.
WELL, it is much cheaper!