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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pardon me if this has already been answered, but didn’t this vessel survive previous dives to the Titanic?  How many trips had it been on? I’m surprised an accident had not happened sooner. What made this trip different where the materials were insufficient to handle the pressure that it was able to handle on previous dives?[/quote]

This was its third trip.  Any number of things could have gone wrong, and it had experienced problems on previous trips.  With every dive, the protective materials get weaker from the pressure.[/quote]

No, not third. I think at least 5th. 
It’s called materials fatigue, or simply wear and tear from the immense water pressure so deep in the ocean on a material that was not safe to spend many hours there. [/quote]

This site says only 3 times, once a year since 2021: : [url]https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/22/how-many-times-has-the-titan-gone-to-the-titanic-and-how-deep-is-the-wreck-18994926/[/url].[/quote]

The video I saw yesterday had someone who was on the 3rd trip of 2023 May 29-June 6. So this was trip #4 of 5 for 2023 according to her. [/quote]

If you listened better she said weather scuttled the first two missions.[/quote]

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