NTSB engineer says carbon fiber hull from Titan sub showed signs of flaws [Video]

The carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process and behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives the year before the tragedy, an engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.Video above: OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein says ‘This can’t be the end of deep ocean exploration’Engineer Don Kramer said there were wrinkles, porosity and voids in the carbon fiber used for the pressure hull of the Titan submersible. Two different types of sensors on Titan recorded the “loud acoustic event” that earlier witnesses testified about hearing on a dive on July 15, 2022, he said.Hull pieces recovered after the tragedy showed substantial delamination of the layers of carbon fiber, which were bonded to create the hull of the experimental submersible, he said.OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush was among …