[PSUBS-MAILIST] Titan submersible missing at Titanic site

[Marc de Piolenc via Personal_Submersibles]

That's it. I lost interest when I realized he had built a superstructure 
on a conventional pressure hull.

Very sorry  to hear about Brian Cox.

Marc

On 6/25/2023 6:11 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
> Marc, that was probably Brian Cox who passed away a year or so ago.  
> His pressure hull was steel but he did use ferrocement for the 
> superstructure. 
> http://www.subdb.info/cgi/database/showvessel/index.cgi?ID=1272980224&VN=Esmae&VT=1 
> <http://www.subdb.info/cgi/database/showvessel/index.cgi?ID=1272980224&VN=Esmae&VT=1>
>
> There are no standards for using ferrocement as a manned submarine 
> pressure hull and I think anyone attempting it would find little 
> support for the project given the Ocean Gate loss.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 04:09:00 AM EDT, Marc de Piolenc via 
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>
> I know. I fell in love with FC for yachts, which made me wonder how
> useful it would be for pressure hulls... Turns out there is a 2010
> exchange of messages in my archive with somebody on this list who built
> in FC, Brian Cox. Is he still there?
>
> Marc
>
> On 6/24/2023 8:27 PM, Bernie Hellstrom via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
> > Many boat hulls were made with FC. Even the landing barges in the 
> ww2 , to make piers to in load ships!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
>
>
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