DSV Alvin Tour

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A quick tour inside the manned submersible Alvin personnel sphere aboard R/V Atlantis in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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  • @camwow13
    @camwow1311 ай бұрын

    I think I'll take this one down to the Titanic next time

  • @Edward135i

    @Edward135i

    11 ай бұрын

    It has been to the Titanic many times Alvin is 59 years old and has be proven to be safe over and over.

  • @rowinglove4ever

    @rowinglove4ever

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@Edward135iAlvin have too many safety features if something gone wrong! The other one had just a tablet

  • @moultriemanicmechani

    @moultriemanicmechani

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@Edward135ithey just finished recertifying it with the new pressure hull , three ports in front instead of 1

  • @backfromcuba

    @backfromcuba

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah. This looks betterer. Not so implody and deathy.

  • @KimoKimochii

    @KimoKimochii

    11 ай бұрын

    it’s missing a wireless controller, i’ll pass

  • @imnotjoe
    @imnotjoe11 ай бұрын

    The Chad Alvin vs the virgin Titan

  • @dindu551

    @dindu551

    11 ай бұрын

    YES

  • @Xphyzeek
    @Xphyzeek11 ай бұрын

    The chad Sphered Titanium hull of Alvin vs the Carbon fiber toilet paper roll of Oceangate Titan.

  • @KimoKimochii

    @KimoKimochii

    11 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @mrcarterxxl

    @mrcarterxxl

    11 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @trashasaurus

    @trashasaurus

    11 ай бұрын

    "Can you imagine being such a bitch you implode at 4000m?!? Couldn't be me." -Alvin

  • @zerodarkthirty6662

    @zerodarkthirty6662

    11 ай бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @ruisilva3317

    @ruisilva3317

    11 ай бұрын

    Brilliant that

  • @eldrago19
    @eldrago1911 ай бұрын

    The difference between this and the Titan is like the meme about the difference between tech enthusiasts and tech workers. Tech enthusiasts have every smart device they can lay their hands on. Tech workers have a computer and a printer and a gun in case the printer makes a noise they don't recognise.

  • @BlackJackPVI

    @BlackJackPVI

    11 ай бұрын

    @@missingsig It's cringe, but he is right.

  • @margaretalbrecht4650

    @margaretalbrecht4650

    11 ай бұрын

    So in your analogy, the Titan is the tech worker and Alvin is the tech enthusiast? That's backward. Alvin is the professional. The Titan was the enthusiastic amateur (who, it turns out, should have left it to the professional who know what they're doing).

  • @hyperdude144

    @hyperdude144

    10 ай бұрын

    @@margaretalbrecht4650 The Alvin is the tech worker, of course. Multiple redundant and analogue systems, for when digitals crap out.

  • @margaretalbrecht4650

    @margaretalbrecht4650

    10 ай бұрын

    @@hyperdude144 The post you're talking about has the tech worker having bare bones and the tech enthusiast having all the bells and whistles. But that's not the case. Alvin had all the bells and whistles. Titan was bare bones. (Have you seen video of the interior? Bare bones is the perfect description of it.)

  • @xmlthegreat

    @xmlthegreat

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@margaretalbrecht4650you misunderstand. Titan was built with all this tech googaws, such as real time hull health monitoring. It looked spartan but it had flashy tech that sounded good to idiots. Meanwhile Alvin has an old timey compass and analogue systems in case the computers fail. They can run without the shiny shit. Titan could not.

  • @timestampterrysassistant7638
    @timestampterrysassistant763810 ай бұрын

    Alvin’s engineers need a raise 💰

  • @evanaltman9286
    @evanaltman928611 ай бұрын

    Alvin has a perfect safety record btw. One time it flooded and sank, but it was recovered a year later and put back into service

  • @fixman88

    @fixman88

    11 ай бұрын

    THIS. A lot of people don't know that. It happened due to two steel cables breaking while it was being transported, causing it to fall into the water with the hatch open. Three crew members were inside but they escaped. Once they found it the Aluminaut sub was used to attach cables and nets to it and it was lifted up to 50 feet where it was slowly carried back to Woods Hole. In other words, it sank...but it got better.

  • @Fekillix

    @Fekillix

    11 ай бұрын

    Nothing on the current Alvin is shared with the sub that sank

  • @stephenthompson6982

    @stephenthompson6982

    11 ай бұрын

    When the Alvin sunk the crew had left sandwiches behind & what they discovered was that at the depth the Alvin sunk, the sandwiches were well preserved, which led researchers to believe that the Titanic could also be in a good state of preservation (which due to the iron eating bacteria, Halomonas titanicae, is not the case).

  • @nicholasrice8693

    @nicholasrice8693

    11 ай бұрын

    They dropped it.. lol

  • @ser_igel

    @ser_igel

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Fekillix so it's like the ship of theseus

  • @LaPulgaM
    @LaPulgaM11 ай бұрын

    The Titan, it all works with just one switch. The Alvin, thousands of switches.

  • @joehum174
    @joehum17411 ай бұрын

    It is rare to see someone who has mastered their craft as well as this guy has. He knows that machine cold

  • @michaeliceman5512
    @michaeliceman551210 ай бұрын

    Alvin is lowkey one of the most impressive machines humanity ever built

  • @Zagoreni02A
    @Zagoreni02A11 ай бұрын

    If we consider that Alvin is launched and commissioned in 1964, she is in service for 59 or so years now. Wow!!! With exception of that little accident where she sunk due cable snaping and crew having hatch open, recovered and recommissioned. Its amazing but you can see difference how submersible is built. No game controller, no carbon fibre, its true sub. Heck this thing is far older then I am.

  • @sparrowlt

    @sparrowlt

    11 ай бұрын

    but nothing of when Alvin was first made is left... its the best example of a ship of Theseus.. the sphere was replaced..the electronics, the video systems, the coms, the thrusters , the batteries, the tanks, the external panels.. the skids..

  • @connormclernon26

    @connormclernon26

    11 ай бұрын

    @@sparrowltbut there is continuity in the parts to the original Alvin, therefore it is still the same submersible.

  • @zackakai5173

    @zackakai5173

    11 ай бұрын

    @@connormclernon26 well that is literally what the Ship of Theseus question is about.

  • @tobiaswichert4843

    @tobiaswichert4843

    10 ай бұрын

    The game controller itself is not a bad choice, those are really refined control devices. But it being wireless is so much more questionable, though.

  • @Zagoreni02A

    @Zagoreni02A

    10 ай бұрын

    @@tobiaswichert4843 Controller may work perfectly but as you say, fact that was wireless, that was what bugging me most. You cannot control such complex machine as submersible with a wireless controller, 100 things could go wrong.

  • @adonislimes6156
    @adonislimes615611 ай бұрын

    In light of the Titan tragedy... This is what a NAVSEA & ABS certified and rigorously tested submersible looks like.

  • @owenswabi

    @owenswabi

    11 ай бұрын

    In light of, not in lieu of

  • @gastonbell108

    @gastonbell108

    11 ай бұрын

    Alvin would cost roughly $50 million to replace. The Titan cost a maximum of $5 million. You really can't adequately compare the two, Titan was literally closer to a soapbox derby car than it was to Alvin.

  • @Jman926

    @Jman926

    11 ай бұрын

    @@gastonbell108 Good point. 1/10 the cost to replace the vessel; no amount of $ can replace lost lives. First thing I thought was why didn't they use the proven technology/design of the Alvin when planning this? The deep sea is no place to cut costs and experiment with cheaper methods, especially when lives are at stake...

  • @tylerchambers6246

    @tylerchambers6246

    11 ай бұрын

    @@gastonbell108 If the dead CEO touted it as a deep submergence vessel, I'm gonna compare it to other deep submergence vessels. And compared to them, it sucks. It sucks with more than 5000 PSI.

  • @thaddeus5944

    @thaddeus5944

    11 ай бұрын

    @@gastonbell108with that logic, a $10000 car cannot be compared to a $100000 just because of the price difference? makes sense

  • @Laminar-Flow
    @Laminar-Flow10 ай бұрын

    THIS is how an engineer should discuss his work. THIS is how engineers should engineer innovation within the bounds of the rulebook. Stockton Rush was an engineer, but flaunted his LG controller & completely digital interface housed within his uncertified sub. World of difference.

  • @TheDarkKRoo
    @TheDarkKRoo11 ай бұрын

    I want to sleep in this thing. looks so cozy and safe.

  • @netkongen
    @netkongen11 ай бұрын

    The thick titanium sphere pressure hull never fails. It is rock solid.

  • @fbportnoy

    @fbportnoy

    11 ай бұрын

    Only the port holes are possible weak spots. And hatch.

  • @deshawnclark4459

    @deshawnclark4459

    11 ай бұрын

    Carbon fiber is better lol

  • @krishnendusamanta2900

    @krishnendusamanta2900

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@deshawnclark4459😆😆😆😆😆😆 really

  • @g_pazzini

    @g_pazzini

    11 ай бұрын

    cylinder carbon fiber hull is the best.. sorry kidding..

  • @HydroSnips

    @HydroSnips

    11 ай бұрын

    Billionaire CEO: Carbon Fiber’s just as good as titanium! And cheaper! First Dive: Still really stoked with my carbon fiber hull, so good! And cheap! Second Dive: Almost routine now, hull still as good as new! And cheap! Third Dive: Going great as ever, still really happy! And richer! Fourth Dive: Wow, is there nothing this carbon fiber can’t do? So awesome! So cheap! Fifth Dive: Another day another awesome dive to the bottom of the occAubub………..

  • @gaussian18
    @gaussian1811 ай бұрын

    Although Alvin is some 60 or so years old, almost every component, including the pressure hull, has been upgraded/replaced at some point. Very few if any components are original to the early '60s version. A true ship of Theseus.

  • @George-zj9rr
    @George-zj9rr11 ай бұрын

    Now THAT is how you design a fuckin sub!

  • @tbasmwmc
    @tbasmwmc11 ай бұрын

    There's a damn good reason for everything that went into that.

  • @slo3337
    @slo333711 ай бұрын

    You should improve the sub by cutting it in half and putting a carbon tube glued to each end in the middle

  • @JDRichard
    @JDRichard11 ай бұрын

    This is a proper system designed to go to 6000 m depth. All of the controls one would expect. Obviously completely certified and again the shape is a dome.

  • @darkhelmutt3417
    @darkhelmutt341711 ай бұрын

    Yo, where's the USB port? I need to pop in my Mad Catz controller for some hot Unreal Tournament action (or we can play Tribes, whatever)

  • @griffin1366

    @griffin1366

    11 ай бұрын

    fr fr is there chronus support?

  • @JGV_IX
    @JGV_IX10 ай бұрын

    This is what I would expect for a $250k ticket…not the surplus store DIY special. I think if the Titan victims had seen this video - they’d have thought twice before getting into that sinking cigar tube. What is super sad is that Hamish Harding went down to the deepest point in the ocean with Victor Vescovo in that magnificent sub “Limiting Factor”, and still fell for the assurances fed by Ocean Gate’s late CEO.

  • @Bilson420
    @Bilson42011 ай бұрын

    Watch this guy give an excellent in depth tour of his tried and true DSV design, and then watch Stockton rush's exact same video tour he did with a reporter... It's fucking unbelievable... This guy is giving a thorough run down and explanation of all the features and safety backups of the sub, while Mr. Rush is just waving around a PlayStation controller and laughing and bragging about the fact his sub only has 1 button... It's a shame Stockton had to kill 4 other poor souls with his incompetence and arrogance

  • @jonaweber8736
    @jonaweber873611 ай бұрын

    This guy is so meek and yet I’m absolutely sure he’s a giant

  • @philipb2847
    @philipb284711 ай бұрын

    The Alvin is the pioneer of submarines. Goes through full certification.

  • @masaharumorimoto4761
    @masaharumorimoto476111 ай бұрын

    Crazy to think my grandfather worked on Alvin! I remember looking at his Alvin patches on his airforce jacket.

  • @dopenerd
    @dopenerd10 ай бұрын

    To me ALVIN is a trusted name, I’ve heard of this sub for decades now.

  • @cafb8525
    @cafb852511 ай бұрын

    Rush was like we don’t need redundancy. Just a game controller and cookies

  • @Dasycottus
    @Dasycottus11 ай бұрын

    This is probably the most capable research submersible ever built. The constant updates have kept it at the top of its game since it was first built. AFIK, this Alvin shares no original components with the first iteration of the submersible.

  • @ser_igel

    @ser_igel

    11 ай бұрын

    are you sure? i don't know about scientific equipment on these subs but Limiting Factor can go like 5km deeper (8 acthchthually but we don't have 14km deep places yet)

  • @evangovedas2320

    @evangovedas2320

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@ser_igel It's also smaller, only holding 2 people instead of 3 on Alvin. That alone makes it less capable as a research sub, and therefore means it's also less likely to be supported by the scientific community. Alvin isn't neccessarily more capable just by it's own merits, it's more that it works as a platform that scientists can modify and build on top of for each mission. Maybe limiting factor will become that to some extent as well, but currently it isn''t.

  • @JSTRonline2

    @JSTRonline2

    11 ай бұрын

    Are you familiar with the thought experiment, 'The Ship of Theseus? ' in the field of identity metaphysics?

  • @POVwithRC

    @POVwithRC

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@JSTRonline2People bring it up, but it's mostly meaningless for the day to day.

  • @timkaine5098
    @timkaine509811 ай бұрын

    I’d personally trust my life to three inch thick titanium over carbon fiber any day of the week

  • @somebodyelseuk

    @somebodyelseuk

    11 ай бұрын

    It's about having the right tool for the job. I'd have no qualms about visiting Titanic in Alvin, but I'd rather have my race car made of carbon fibre than titanium... made by someone who knows what they're doing.

  • @Jman926

    @Jman926

    11 ай бұрын

    @@somebodyelseuk That is until you're racing at the abyssal plain 😄

  • @ser_igel

    @ser_igel

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Jman926 if ur racing at the abyssal plain in a car probably ur not a very good driver..

  • @hello-rq8kf

    @hello-rq8kf

    11 ай бұрын

    @@somebodyelseukto be fair a race car made of titanium will turn any car you crash into to tissue paper before it kills you

  • @pcblah

    @pcblah

    11 ай бұрын

    @@ser_igel or you're a really good driver. I meam, depending on intent.

  • @will5989
    @will598911 ай бұрын

    Oh, this is what they’re supposed to be built & look like?

  • @henryvasquez8629
    @henryvasquez862910 ай бұрын

    Alvin is a icon In the submersible world

  • @craigmuranaka8016
    @craigmuranaka801611 ай бұрын

    Alvin is an old design but it really works well. Definitely not running from a game controller.

  • @cosmicinsane516

    @cosmicinsane516

    11 ай бұрын

    The game controller was one of the few good design choices they made on Titan.

  • @autumn6994

    @autumn6994

    11 ай бұрын

    @@cosmicinsane516 absolutely not, wireless(!) consumer grade controller with no backup steering control is a terrible design, it would be fine for controlling drone or a periscope on a sub etc.. but not on a mission critical equipment. This thing was just a terrible design all around.

  • @cosmicinsane516

    @cosmicinsane516

    11 ай бұрын

    @@autumn6994 Yeah wireless was sketchy, but other than that I would have no qualms about it. I’d worry far more about computer controlled thrusters.

  • @krihervor

    @krihervor

    11 ай бұрын

    @@cosmicinsane516 I was being unconscious... everything was very precarious in OceanGate. these things must be like airplanes. tested and perfect so as not to fail unless it is a human error.

  • @mediocreman6323

    @mediocreman6323

    11 ай бұрын

    That game controller was only a minor issue amongst the many terrible flaws of this “submersible”.

  • @piotrsta790
    @piotrsta79011 ай бұрын

    Man this thing compared to Titan looks like space ship

  • @SawdEndymon

    @SawdEndymon

    11 ай бұрын

    The thing can *literally detach* the cabin and go balistically to the surface. *I’m not kidding*

  • @ImieNazwiskoOK

    @ImieNazwiskoOK

    3 күн бұрын

    @@SawdEndymon That was in the older versions. Currently it can individually detach each thruster, arm and the "basket", Since those are by far the most prone to getting stuck on something.

  • @RotNcroch
    @RotNcroch11 ай бұрын

    I can't believe he went with the more qualified team to build this sub and didn't use young kids straight outta college.

  • @TykeToobin
    @TykeToobin11 ай бұрын

    Thank you for an amazing video. I've been interested in this sub since I was a boy in the 80's and with the finding of the Titanic. In awe of what it could do then and even all these years later it still makes my jaw drop after seeing this video. It's a truly stunning work of engineering with no thought missed for safety, even though nothing is without danger or problems. After recent events it has hit home again what an unforgiving environment it is in the depths of the ocean, it's not meant for casual tourism. The amount of dives Alvin has made shows what can be done when there thorough thought and careful maintenance involved. Love the attitude of the guy as well. Top notch. Cheers.

  • @slrdave

    @slrdave

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  • @lucasandresen5238
    @lucasandresen523811 ай бұрын

    See now this looks safe

  • @studydude
    @studydude11 ай бұрын

    ALVIN does not use an XBOX Game Controller to pilot.

  • @fredharvey2720
    @fredharvey272011 ай бұрын

    I remember seeing TV specials of this thing as a kid in the early 80s, maybe even the 70s

  • @acefighterpilot
    @acefighterpilot11 ай бұрын

    This is so cool, looks like a great place to work!

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan11 ай бұрын

    5000 dives, tried and true!

  • @Whitguy86
    @Whitguy8611 ай бұрын

    I'm glad that they are still upgrading it instead of just scrapping it like other companies would have done.

  • @joehoy9242

    @joehoy9242

    11 ай бұрын

    People who insist that government is inefficient compared to the private sector would do well to note this.

  • @xmlthegreat

    @xmlthegreat

    10 ай бұрын

    They would be insane to scrap this thing, it took 4 years just to build the titanium sphere in the 60s... It's more difficult than building a space capsule hull.

  • @anthonygambitta6220
    @anthonygambitta622011 ай бұрын

    This is how you build a serious sub, .lots of technology, but basic operations, but very safe materials- titanium titanium titanium!! No carbon fiber crew sphere.

  • @StrikeNoir105E

    @StrikeNoir105E

    11 ай бұрын

    The Titan iirc had both Titanium and Carbon Fiber for its pressure hull. It sounds good on paper - combine two lightweight yet tough materials - but there's a reason no one in the DSV community recommends using both materials in combination: because their different properties combined actually makes for a hull that doesn't withstand repeated dives under deep sea pressure that well. And since the CEO was cheapskate enough to not perform hull integrity inspections on the submersible after every dive the hull weakened with each dive until it led to the implosion.

  • @romigithepope
    @romigithepope11 ай бұрын

    Now compare this to the Titan. These people understood the risk.

  • @somebodyelseuk

    @somebodyelseuk

    11 ай бұрын

    I might be wrong, but in this case, 'these people' were the US Navy.

  • @romigithepope

    @romigithepope

    11 ай бұрын

    @@somebodyelseukI should have been more clear. WHOI understands the risk of deep sea exploration.

  • @somebodyelseuk

    @somebodyelseuk

    11 ай бұрын

    @@romigithepope No, no, I agree with you. There are plenty of people who understand what's required. Don't know how it's being reported in the States, but in the UK, the media is going on like this was some pioneering mission. They don't seem to 'get' that our Navy regularly dives deeper, and that James Cameron alone has been down to the Titanic more than 30 times and has also been 3x deeper. I'm far from even being an enthusiast, let alone an expert, but from what I hear, over 200 people have been down to the Titanic, and a fair few have been down the Marina Trench - 3x deeper? The Titan disaster is a big deal, because after 60 years of doing this kind of thing, it's the first time there's been an implosion, as I understand it, and what a shocker, it happened to be run by some cowboy operation who tried to do things on the cheap.

  • @tomsmith3045

    @tomsmith3045

    11 ай бұрын

    @@somebodyelseuk US Navy and Woods Hole, a private company, working together. The group that found the Titanic in the first place I think. The purpose really to find information on two lost US submarines during the cold war.

  • @nachoolo
    @nachoolo11 ай бұрын

    It's incredible to see the amount of safety measurements and redundancies in this sub has compared to the Titan. It does show how baflfing that sumergiable was. They basically designed it to fail.

  • @leewightman8619
    @leewightman861911 ай бұрын

    Its crazy how basic the titan was compared to properly built deep sea subs

  • @globalcitizenn

    @globalcitizenn

    11 ай бұрын

    Stockton had no money. He just wanted to make money.

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick68211 ай бұрын

    Hey, a titanium sphere that doesn’t dive to the actual limits of its “design parameters”. Not a parallel latitudinal woven carbon fiber cylinder that operates at the upper bound of its designed tolerance (though clearly those tolerances weren’t thoroughly modeled or tested with regards to cyclic failure)

  • @brummienik4273
    @brummienik427311 ай бұрын

    I have never really looked at the world of submersibles until the Titan tragedy. I am stunned by the difference in the extent of equipment between the two (game controller and strip lights versus a complete mini-sub). I always thought trips to the Titanic could only take place with fully licensed vehicles. What am I missing ?

  • @gecko-sb1kp

    @gecko-sb1kp

    10 ай бұрын

    Apparently less was more...

  • @flack3
    @flack311 ай бұрын

    Hello fellow internet experts! After mastering vaccines and virus, war strategy and economics, I'm glad we have a new subject we can all argue about together while we pretend we have a phd on the matter. See you around!

  • @steelersguy74

    @steelersguy74

    10 ай бұрын

    Don’t forget election laws and the Romanian legal system!

  • @Dmarcoot
    @Dmarcoot10 ай бұрын

    The titan team, the ENTIRE team, wouldn’t be qualified to clean the Alvin

  • @fixman88
    @fixman8811 ай бұрын

    While I was watching this I noticed something that I thought was darkly ironic: Both the Titan and the Alvin have/had devices by Logitech on board. In the case of the Titan it was the infamous game controller that was used to actually control the sub. In the case of the Alvin it's the little white keyboard with integrated trackpad he's using to click on things on the screen where the touch screen was being finicky (I have a slightly fancier version with auto backlit keys). The difference being while the controller was the only thing controlling the Titan the keyboard in the Alvin is completely secondary (as is the computer it's connected to) since all the Alvin's systems are analog and can be controlled by switches.

  • @fdsman

    @fdsman

    11 ай бұрын

    The controller likely had nothing to do with why the Titan imploded, it was merely a symptom of the cost cutting and cavalier attitude Rush took to engineering and safety practices.

  • @sparrowlt

    @sparrowlt

    11 ай бұрын

    the controller wasnt all that was steering Titan.. they controled the thrusters throught at least one computer.. the controller was just an interface with that that could be moved arround in the cockpit.. you still could pilot it from the computer or other controller (as they had spares). Imagine had they also installed a fancy Thrustmaster warthog joystick

  • @incognitoburrito6020

    @incognitoburrito6020

    10 ай бұрын

    @@fdsman I think the reason people bring it up so often is that the controller is also a _symbol_ of the cost-cutting, and it's one that pretty much everyone on the internet understands at a glance. "They couldn't even spring for an on-brand!?" Most people don't know much about sub design, but any moderately serious console gamer could find problems with the Titan controller.

  • @andrewhillis9544
    @andrewhillis954410 ай бұрын

    I WOULD FEEL SAFE GOING ON A DIVE ON THE TITANIC WITH BRUCE BECAUSE HE IS A PROFESSIONAL AND HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING UNLIKE OCEANGATE WHO I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN AND ARE A BUNCH OF AMATEURS ! ! !💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

  • @TimDoscher-wj6xh
    @TimDoscher-wj6xh11 ай бұрын

    This stuff is incredible, thank you for sharing!

  • @TurfShifter
    @TurfShifter10 ай бұрын

    So this is what a submersible is supposed to look like. Having watched various videos about Titan it was clearly criminal in its design.

  • @POVwithRC
    @POVwithRC10 ай бұрын

    Mercury trim system. Coolest thing I learnt today.

  • @arteoom8718
    @arteoom871811 ай бұрын

    All this control panels seems effective ,it's not giving me that inspirational feeling

  • @geemanbmw
    @geemanbmw10 ай бұрын

    Alvin is disassembled inspected and reassembled every 5 years and then inspected by the US NAVY and is owned by the navy

  • @stevepacheco4673
    @stevepacheco467311 ай бұрын

    this guy is great.

  • @Dmarcoot
    @Dmarcoot10 ай бұрын

    Alvin is legendary.

  • @NotSure416
    @NotSure41611 ай бұрын

    Forward this to anyone you know building their own Deep Sea Submersible.

  • @ibrahimshaffi6282
    @ibrahimshaffi628211 ай бұрын

    Ill take this over a game controller and a singular button any day😂

  • @kvol1668
    @kvol166811 ай бұрын

    Alvin looks like a spaceship

  • @JDRichard
    @JDRichard11 ай бұрын

    Sir, what a great job you have

  • @mifune9634
    @mifune963411 ай бұрын

    @ 4:44 DSV Alvin Guide: It's funny haha, It didn't switch. Oh alright. How about this? Never give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.

  • @BeKindToBirds
    @BeKindToBirds11 ай бұрын

    Wonderful walkthrough, cheers.

  • @jezzter4293
    @jezzter429310 ай бұрын

    Alvin is amazing, I didn't know it was still in use. The current technology level is awesome, so much safety built in with analogue controls to be sure it works. The people who built Titan should have learned from this.

  • @johnevans6399
    @johnevans639910 ай бұрын

    Coffee machine? Toilet? Day bed? Get this sorted!

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick68211 ай бұрын

    This thing can go to 6,000 meters but it never will, it probably wont go below 4500 because the safety factor of giving yourself 25-30% margins on that design limit.

  • @mikas2051

    @mikas2051

    11 ай бұрын

    I believe, that the 6000 meters is certified depth, including the safety margin.

  • @slrdave

    @slrdave

    10 ай бұрын

    @@mikas2051 That's correct. There is a safety factor that goes beyond 6000 meters.

  • @dannyarcher6370
    @dannyarcher637011 ай бұрын

    Titan had a single button. Much simpler.

  • @billpugh58

    @billpugh58

    11 ай бұрын

    Labeled: SINK

  • @Jasshands1
    @Jasshands111 ай бұрын

    im a pilot, and operating a sub seems way more complicated and life and death than any aircraft ive flown

  • @emilyrobinson6080

    @emilyrobinson6080

    11 ай бұрын

    If an airplane has something go catastrophically wrong, you tend to have less time to sit around and wait for the other shoe to fall. A submarine (if youre not lucky enough to have it suddenly and instantaneously become someone elses problem) becomes a long protracted game of hurry up and wait

  • @zackakai5173

    @zackakai5173

    11 ай бұрын

    @@emilyrobinson6080 I mean it's all *highly* situational. If your engine goes out at 15,000 feet and you've got your choice of seven different airports in gliding distance to land at, you're probably gonna be fine. It's when you lose power on takeoff and you've got minimal airspeed and altitude with nowhere good to land nearby that you're in trouble.

  • @NurmYokai
    @NurmYokai11 ай бұрын

    "Redundant," "redundant," "redundant," ... 'redundant redundant.' Well engineered, with safety always in mind.

  • @TwistedMind001
    @TwistedMind00111 ай бұрын

    That cabin looks roomier that it actually is due to camera effects

  • @famousamoso7
    @famousamoso711 ай бұрын

    Its amazing how much this sub is a cross of an Apollo module and a space ex module. And that the Titan sub is nowhere near the technological advancement of either. But Stockon would leave you to believe it was. Titan has 1 button on the sub and use a touch screen computer/keyboard/game controller for EVERYTHING. Where as if done right it should look like this sub and have analog controls in case the PC crashes.

  • @audgusto
    @audgusto11 ай бұрын

    Analog is best

  • @steelersguy74
    @steelersguy7411 ай бұрын

    I was wondering if analog was preferable to digital at least for stuff like this.

  • @geemanbmw
    @geemanbmw10 ай бұрын

    The magic to alvin is it's a sphere

  • @Festivejelly
    @Festivejelly10 ай бұрын

    This chap is really interesting to listen to.

  • @POVwithRC
    @POVwithRC10 ай бұрын

    A bright mind.

  • @POVwithRC
    @POVwithRC10 ай бұрын

    No wonder OceanGate was a pariah. It takes a lot to do dangerous things safely. A lot that they did not see fit to do.

  • @oswaldcobblepot502
    @oswaldcobblepot50211 ай бұрын

    You mean to tell me that the Alvin isnt controlled by a cheesy $40 Xbox controller?

  • @jonathantan2469

    @jonathantan2469

    11 ай бұрын

    They didn't have Xboxes in the 1960s when they made DSV Alvin...

  • @gastonbell108

    @gastonbell108

    11 ай бұрын

    Even less inspiring: there's a 50 year old white Navy guy right there. He likely even knows what he's doing and won't let you be negligent for profit. What a downer.

  • @joe_scotto
    @joe_scotto11 ай бұрын

    How does the welding of the two pressure hull halves work? I would assume that's the weakest point of the hull.

  • @fixman88

    @fixman88

    11 ай бұрын

    A *proper* weld is just as strong as the metal pieces being welded.

  • @HydroSnips

    @HydroSnips

    11 ай бұрын

    They’d x-ray the heck out of it to ensure no air-pockets or voids etc, and if they found one then they might make a whole new one(?). They weld hull components on nuke subs too and QC-check every millimetre.

  • @tomsmith3045

    @tomsmith3045

    11 ай бұрын

    I think they had to weld it, because it's titanium. As I understand it, each half was hot formed from flat plate into a hemisphere, and then welding together. Tricky to do, but easier and probably more consistent and stronger than trying to cast titanium. Believe titanium has to be vacuum cast because it's so reactive when heated.

  • @zackakai5173

    @zackakai5173

    11 ай бұрын

    A properly done weld should (in theory, anyway) be as strong as the material around it. I would think the viewing windows would be the weaker points.

  • @xmlthegreat

    @xmlthegreat

    10 ай бұрын

    It's electron beam welded. This type of welding has the weld sometimes stronger than the material around it. The windows are made of really thick acrylic and cone shaped so the pressure pushes them inwards and strengthens the seal.

  • @Mikeb8134
    @Mikeb813411 ай бұрын

    thanks

  • @io5329
    @io532911 ай бұрын

    Из дубина интернета извукли смо Алвина!

  • @seagie382
    @seagie38211 ай бұрын

    oh look its a metal sphere able to take work-fatigue strain whoa

  • @AndrewCZ47

    @AndrewCZ47

    11 ай бұрын

    Cylindrical hull is fine at least down to 5 kilometers (see Aluminaut). Has to be metal though.

  • @ColtonRDean
    @ColtonRDean11 ай бұрын

    Is it still ALVIN? Or is it the ship of Theseus at this point?

  • @Werepie

    @Werepie

    11 ай бұрын

    I believe Alvin's gotten the Theseus treatment about three times over by now!

  • @Bryan-cs9to
    @Bryan-cs9to10 ай бұрын

    This is proper engineering

  • @stevemull2002
    @stevemull200210 ай бұрын

    A very interesting vid, not sure i am brave enough to go down in this Sub, but it is impressive

  • @JOlivier2011
    @JOlivier201111 ай бұрын

    now THIS is a sub. So cool.

  • @ToneX-hj6ki
    @ToneX-hj6ki9 ай бұрын

    Looks a little better than that anxious crew in that exploding coffin

  • @ToneX-hj6ki

    @ToneX-hj6ki

    9 ай бұрын

    Well alote better

  • @Swampthing401
    @Swampthing40111 ай бұрын

    a good redundant system incase the ballast doesnt release, could be to drop the arms from the vehicle. Wonder how much mass they have.

  • @xmlthegreat

    @xmlthegreat

    10 ай бұрын

    He mentioned it in the video, everything can be dropped off in an emergency. Arms, hull thrusters, cage, batteries, ballasting system...

  • @JBMSpain
    @JBMSpain11 ай бұрын

    Can it play cs go at 4K?

  • @vulpesinculta3238

    @vulpesinculta3238

    11 ай бұрын

    It can play Titanic: Honor and Glory at 8K.

  • @BLITZKRIEG1
    @BLITZKRIEG110 ай бұрын

    so very cool

  • @leewightman8619
    @leewightman861911 ай бұрын

    Analogue i like that

  • @jeffalan3216
    @jeffalan321611 ай бұрын

    Soundly engineered

  • @EbianBun
    @EbianBun11 ай бұрын

    This actually looks robust unlike the titan

  • @georgewashington938
    @georgewashington93811 ай бұрын

    Launched: June 5, 1964

  • @bobbybandz9194
    @bobbybandz919411 ай бұрын

    I'm thinking some of the tips are for if you somehow manage to crash onto an island etc and are stranded on land as such.

  • @odomobo

    @odomobo

    11 ай бұрын

    It's a first aid kit they got at the store, so the safety tips are for camping and such. Pretty funny in the context of a sub

  • @andrewnorgrove6487
    @andrewnorgrove648711 ай бұрын

    What sort of batteries do they run ? and if lithium What protection do they have if shorting out with smoke and fire

  • @mikas2051

    @mikas2051

    11 ай бұрын

    As you can see in the video, emergency breathing apparatuses with their own supply and fire extinguishers.

  • @qubei

    @qubei

    10 ай бұрын

    Until a couple of years ago it used lead acid batteries. The potential fire hazard from lithium ion was a challenge to overcome when they switched.

  • @xmlthegreat

    @xmlthegreat

    10 ай бұрын

    The batteries are also in a different compartment, separate from the pressure vessel.

  • @incognitoburrito6020

    @incognitoburrito6020

    10 ай бұрын

    The batteries can also be outright dropped in emergencies, though I don't know if the fire procedure involves this

  • @geeky_gunner
    @geeky_gunner10 ай бұрын

    How on Earth did the people of Oceangate get fooled by a fool?

  • @HydroSnips
    @HydroSnips11 ай бұрын

    There are two things in the world that I would die happy soon after having seen done. (1) Would be to get within peering distance of an Apollo-Saturn V, and to explore over every sq in inside & out; (2) would be to dive to a Mid-Ocean Ridge in the Alvin (has to be in the Alvin, no other DSV counts). So if you’re listening, God or Odin or Taranus or Zeus or Jupiter or FSM or…..

  • @KoewlBag

    @KoewlBag

    11 ай бұрын

    If you live in the States theres a couple Saturn Vs you can actually visit in person, and it is absolutely worth the trip to go check it out. It’s unbelievable how big that thing is

  • @covert0overt_810
    @covert0overt_81011 ай бұрын

    1 year old video… all comments are from the last week 🤣🤣🤣

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