[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An American lawyer who has spent the past two-and-a-half years in Cambodian prison for raping four children is now facing five federal counts in the US - after being deported back to the states earlier this month.
Currently being kept under house arrest in Tampa, 42-year-old Rugh James Cline is facing 170 years in prison for his alleged crimes, which include alleged payments to rape four minors in the Southeast Asian nation back in 2019.
According to the lawman's indictment, he arrived in Cambodia in May of that year with a photo or video showing two Cambodian children engaged in sex acts - before and after raping two minors under the age of 15 on multiple different occasions.
The trip was the second in a matter of months for the Florida lawyer, with the first made in February - during which time prosecutors believe he either recorded the media which featured one child as young as '12 years old.'
The indictment alleges Cline paid to abuse a total of four minors 'multiple times' on both trips.
Now being used in the case against him, the evidence was enough to slap Cline with five counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, and one count of possessing child sex abuse materials.
Cline was indicted on those charges back in 2021 two years after his arrest, and made his first appearance in US federal court on June 7, in Tampa.
Less than three weeks later, last Monday, a bond hearing was held, which saw the suspected pedophile released on conditions of GPS monitoring, 24-hour home detention and $100,000 signature bond.
As he awaits his impending federal trial sometime this year or next, Cline is also not allowed to have access to the internet or to minors during his house arrest, prosecutors said.
A statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida last Monday outlined some of the disgraced attorney's alleged crimes.
'According to the indictment, in February and May 2019, Cline, a U.S. citizen and Florida-licensed attorney living in Tampa, traveled to Cambodia,' attorneys wrote.
'While in Cambodia, he paid to engage in sexual conduct on multiple occasions with four minors.
'[It] also charges Cline with having traveled from the Middle District of Florida to Cambodia while knowingly possessing materials depicting the sexual abuse of young children.'
According to a non-governmental organization that investigates suspected foreign pedophiles in Cambodia, families of three accusers told police Cline paid them a total of $120 for the 'multiple' illegal acts.
A Cambodian court already ordered Cline, who is technically still a lawyer but has lost the ability to practice due to delinquent fees, to pay 15 million riels - roughly $3,750 - in compensation to each of the girls, all of whom were under 15 at the time.
In addition to the compensation fees, Cline - who pleaded guilty to his crimes in Cambodian court - was ordered to pay an additional one-time fee that the court tapped at $200.
His looming trial in the US comes after years of investigation from agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who, according to prosecutors' Monday press release, was aided by the State Department and the Cambodian National Police.
The case is now set be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ilyssa M. Spergel - with Cline, this time around, electing to plead not guilty on all charges.
The decision will see the attorney fight allegations that he was busted with images of 'sexually explicit conduct' involving one unnamed prepubescent child and another under the age of 12 with him to Cambodia in February 2019.
The indictment further states that three times in February, and then again on May 10 and May 17, 2019, Cline 'engaged in illicit sexual conduct' with two minors each day.
Finally being brought forward after four years of deliberations and international cooperation, the case comes as factors such as poverty and poor law enforcement have made Cambodia a de facto breeding ground for foreign pedophiles.
Anti-human trafficking police are currently attempting to crack down on the phenomenon, including the NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), whose executive director, Seila Samleang, celebrated Cline's Cambodian incarceration back when it was ordered in 2019.
'I welcome the verdict, however the crime of purchase of child prostitution should have been charged as the offender took advantage of the victims, coercing them with money,' APLE's executive director, Seila Samleang, said in a statement.
'This would've represented a longer jail sentence,' she added, decrying local laws that allowed Cline to skate free after just a few years.
An investigation published by the agency last year noted that foreign tourists suspected of pedophilia continue to visit Cambodia to exploit weak law enforcement, with as many as 102 cases recorded in 2017 and 89 cases in 2018.
Lieutenant General Chiv Phally, director of Interior Ministry’s Anti-Human Trafficking Police Department, recently promised that Cambodian police are strengthening cooperation with their overseas counterparts to crack down on the alleged crimes.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A search is underway for the person who targeted multiple businesses in Northeast Washington, D.C., with explosive devices and a 'Molotov cocktail style object.'
The attacks happened just minutes apart at Truist Bank, Nike store, and a Safeway grocery in 'The District' overnight, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Police are seeking the help of the public to help nab the suspect and the department is offering a reward of up to $20,000.
There was damage at each site, police said, but no injuries were reported.
The first incident happened at 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning when someone detonated an explosive device on the sidewalk outside the ATM at the Truist Bank on Washington Place NE and then fled the scene in a vehicle, MPD said.
Just minutes later, at approximately 4:36 a.m., the suspect detonated an explosive device on the sidewalk in front of the doors at the Nike Store on H Street.
The third offense happened at 4:45 a.m. when this time, the suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the Safeway on 40th Street before fleeing.
Metropolitan police said that in all three incidents, it appears the suspect targeted commercial establishments but it did not appear the suspect targeted any members of the public.
No motive has been released in the attack, and police have not released a suspect description.
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Which, may in part explain why the Fed's/ DOD types have been training upseleted Metro-Cities Fire Dept Hazmat / Incident 1st Responders in N.B.C. + handling at large venues recently.
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Try to explain the lack of coverage of the HAZMAT response to the White House, close to the West Wing, and the lame attempts to obfuscate what it acturally was! Cocaine...
[WND] German social media influencer and bodybuilder Jo Linder, also known as "Joesthetics" online, has unexpectedly died at only 30 years old.
Linder has a following of over 8.6 million on Instagram and has 948,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, which follows his bodybuilding journey and offers advice for gaining muscle. His net worth was estimated to be around $2.5 million, according to the U.K. Sun.
Asked if he had been vaccinated, Linder replied: "I got the vax. Even four," and explained that he had been pressured into it by a friend.
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Athletes stress their cardiovascular systems. A normal person might get myocarditis and not suffer ill. It is possible that spike proteins in the vax are increasing cancer. Cancer and HGH seems like a bad mix. Lyle Alzado did not last too long. Some of the athletes dropping seem likely to have got the myocarditis effect. It is hard to know as inconvenient deaths will surely not end up in a statistical study.
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Off a 40 foot embankment into 4 feet of water, rock bottom. Oops...
Alcohol may have been a factor, but there was a baseline of stupidity here.
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Knew a guy from high school who had everything going for him - summer before starting at Air Force on a football/QB scholarship. Dove into the only shallow part of a deep lake, broke his neck and died.
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[Fox News] Employees reportedly said the Bud Light boycotts forced the glass bottling plant to shut down as they were 'no longer needed'
A glass bottling company impacted by Bud Light's botched promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney will close down two of its locations, laying off more than 600 employees as the beer brand continues to grapple with staggering financial losses and declining sales.
The Ardagh Group, a global glass producer who contracts with the Anheuser-Busch company, announced that they will be closing their plants in North Carolina and Louisiana in July, putting roughly 645 employees out of a job, WRAL reported
Former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks recently urged Anheuser-Busch’s CEO Brendan Whitworth to step down from the company for how he has handled the Dylan Mulvaney controversy. (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket)
The bottling company did not reveal the reason for the move, but an investigation by WRAL reportedly found that the plants are shuttering because of tanking Bud Light sales, as retailers, distributors, bars and contracted companies feel the wrath of nationwide boycotts over the controversial Bud Light partnership that celebrated Mulvaney's "365 Days of Girlhood."
Workers at both bottling plants have reportedly noticed decreased production after Mulvaney's video announcing the collaboration on social media gained public attention in April, WRAL reported. A machine repair mechanic told the outlet that the drop in demand forced the Louisiana and North Carolina plants to put some of their machines offline, which he attributed to "the Bud Light situation."
In an internal Ardagh Group memo obtained by WRAL, executives said they planned to shut down the two plants "due to slow sales with Anheuser-InBev," Longtime employees told the outlet that they were not surprised by the move, considering that a large part of their business at those plants was producing bottles for Budweiser and Bud Light.
Employees at the Wilson, North Carolina plant reportedly said their manager confirmed to them that they were shuttering its doors because of the Bud Light boycott.
"'Because of Budweiser no longer selling the bottle, they no longer needed our product," David Williams, a machine repair mechanic, told WRAL.
Bud Light sales have slumped since the beermaker gifted Mulvaney special cans in April to celebrate a full year of "girlhood." A second video then featured Mulvaney in a bathtub drinking a Bud Light beer — prompting online outrage and nationwide boycotts that resulted in a sales decline that has yet to rebound.
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The glass bottle people loosing their jobs over aluminum cans. Kinda has an "inevitableness" about it.
You have to wonder what's happening over at Ball, who makes (or used to) the cans for Bud.
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^ Preppers taking up some o' that slack.
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Stakeholders find out what the stake is for...
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Our kids used to collect aluminum cans to fund their sports teams; not worth it now as they only pay about 10-20 cans per penny.
About the only recycling program that is semi-effective by reducing aluminum bauxite imports.
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Are Bud Light drinkers sophisticated enough to drink from bottles?
Being suspicious, I wonder if this has more to do with demand for bottles vs cans than any AB marketing triumph/sales disaster.
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While I was working for GM, one of my hourly workers tried to explain to me why Americans were obligated to buy GM products. I never was able to follow his non-logic.
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I buy what works for me. I do try to avoid Chinese, blue state made and ESG offenders.
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If you buy a used American car, you are beating the UAW tariff. The repair parts are mostly foreign sourced now.
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Nobody is going to see this story and go and buy a twelve pack of Bud Lite because they didn’t understand that choosing a better beer might impact innocents in the InBev supply chain. There will be more and more of these stories. They are a distraction. What is happening to Bud Lite, Fox, Target and Disney is what the globalists fear most, people realizing that they are powerful and not alone.
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^ Exactly. If you don't like Producers or product enough to continue? Don't. Especially if they spit on you as their market
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Every time I buy or don't buy, somebody gets screwed. I try to arrange it so it's not me...
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, from a friend's dad when I was a kid. "Don't play the other guy's game."
Yes. the modern gerbil economy is based on rampant consumerism. If you learn to live more simply, you are sticking it in their eye. Even though they claim that's exactly what they want you to do.
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The people running the local micro brewery may still be flaming commies even though they get to see up close that only work works.
But you can check them out for yourself before you flop your wallet open.
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Let me give you some other examples of narratives that they lost control of: Epstein didn’t kill himself, Let’s go Brandon and the term Fedsurrection. It gets to them. You can see it in Jake Tapper’s clenched jaw. My expectation is that at one of the Trump rally’s, the crowd will eventually be led in a version of the Icelandic clap with the crescendo chant being “Trump.” If his handlers pull this off successfully, it will metastasize into NASCAR crowds and then into other stadiums. It may not. It could possibly be something else. It may not even be related to Trump, but the people will speak. They will continue to speak in a way that the gatekeepers will fail to stop.
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Most interesting comments tonight, 13-21. Number 19 required a 2nd reading. Simple, yet very powerful.
[DailyCaller] Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson parroted a refuted claim in a Thursday dissent that black newborns are more likely to live when treated by black doctors.
"For high risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die," Jackson wrote in her dissent for a case that determined the fate of affirmative action policies in college admission practices."
The study cited, however, only says that black babies have a 99.96% chance of survival when treated by black doctors, and a 99.91% chance of survival when treated by white doctors. The statistic has been used by proponents of affirmative action policies to argue that increasing representation of black medical students in schools will lead to better health outcomes and fewer patient deaths among these communities.
Moreover, white doctors are more likely to treat babies in dire medical situations that land them in the NICU than are black doctors, which the study does not control for.
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It's been almost 60 years since Affirmative Action was implemented.
Now the Race Pimps, BLoM and LSD's clearly see a massive decline for the need of their race baiting services, are reaching for anything to stay in the $$M speaking/blackmail and voter delivery business.
#4
/\ 'Affirmative Action' no longer needed (except at US Military Academies). Dominion voting machines to ensure all future voting outcomes at much lower cost.
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KBJ was an affirmative action hire herself, so you see what it gives you.
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looking at this in depth, the '...double the likelihood that the baby will live' claim was in a "Friend of the Court" submission from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Ted Frank debunked this claim shortly after it was made in October 2022.
Justice Jackson’s clerks let her down for failing to citecheck: she parrots a mathematically incorrect claim from an amicus brief. I refuted it in detail when the brief was released in this October thread.
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lord garth, may I suggest that next time you click on Embed Tweet or make it a hotlink using the globe-on-a- chain icon below the comment box instead of pasting the plain URL in the comment box.
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The "greater truth" mongers don't care whether they are simply wrong or outright lying...
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I stopped trusting medical statistics of any kind during the whole “with Covid” versus “from Covid” debacle. Why would I ever trust anything they quoted me after that? Did they get all the doctor ethnicities correct? How did they categorize the Patels? Were the any Rachel Dolenz doctors that identified as black? This is a crock’s clerks citing a bozo study.
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good point - will try
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Learn as I did:
put together your post and hit "Preview". If it's F'd up there, it'll be F'd up in post
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[BBC] The rusting remains of eight British Hurricane fighter planes dating back to World War Two have been found buried in a forest in Ukraine.
The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941.
They were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United States under the so-called Lend-Lease scheme.
Similar legislation is being used by the US government today to send military aid to Ukraine as it seeks to expel Russian forces from its country.
Aviation experts say this is the first time the remains of so many Hurricanes have been found in Ukraine.
"It is very rare to find this aircraft in Ukraine," says Oleks Shtan, a former airline pilot who is leading the excavation. "It's very important for our aviation history because no Lend-Lease aircraft have been found here before."
The Hawker Hurricane was the workhorse of the Battle of Britain - the air campaign of 1940 when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defeated German attempts to invade the UK. Although its role has often been overshadowed by the newer and more adaptable Spitfire plane, the Hurricane actually shot down more than half of all enemy aircraft during the battle.
"The Hurricane was a strong, easy to fly machine," Mr Shtan says. "It was stable as a gun platform and suitable for inexperienced pilots. A reliable aircraft."
In total, about 3,000 Hurricanes were sent to the USSR between 1941 and 1944 to support the Soviet war effort. Most were either destroyed in combat or dismantled later for parts.
But some Hurricanes were deliberately broken up and buried after the war so the Soviets did not have to pay back the United States. Under the Lend-Lease legislation, the USSR was required to pay for any donated military equipment that remained intact after hostilities ended.
This was the fate of the eight Hurricanes found buried in woodland south of Kyiv - now the capital of independent Ukraine, but until 1991 part of the USSR.
They had been stripped of their instruments, radios, machine guns and any useful scrap metal. They were then dragged by tractors from a nearby airfield, broken up and dropped without ceremony into a shallow ravine. It is thought they were then covered with earth by bulldozers.
The remains were discovered recently after an unexploded bomb dating from the war was found nearby. The rest of the ravine was checked using metal detectors and the Hurricanes were found.
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There is a story about the British shoving perfectly good F4U Corsairs off of carriers in mid-ocean at the end of WW2 for the same reason -- no plane no Lend-Lease bill. Bet every 'Ally' did it in some fashion...
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My Uncle Charles, a WWII mechanic with the Bomb Group that did Ploesti, demob's at an Army Airfield and apparently there were just off the production line P-47's being offered for sale for mere hundreds of dollars. He said he and two buddies were going to buy one until they discovered even at 1946 Prices, high test avgas was cost almost as much to fill the tanks a coupl of times as the pricetag.
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The world is a tinder box. Anyone who is doing foreign travel is diving headfirst into a lake from an 40 foot cliff and hoping it is a shallow spot.
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[Reuters] The European Commission has secured deals with Pfizer and several European drugmakers to reserve capacity to make up to 325 million vaccines per year in case of a future global health emergency, it said on Friday.
The agreement, first reported by Reuters, covers mRNA, vector-based and protein-based vaccines and does not relate to existing COVID-19 vaccine agreements between the EU and vaccine makers including U.S. based Pfizer.
The European Commission said Europe needs to be better prepared for future health emergencies.
The deal ensures that companies are ready to respond to a crisis by keeping their facilities up to date and monitoring their supply chains, "including stockpiling where necessary", the Commission said in a statement.
If a new public health emergency was to be declared, companies would "rapidly start production", it said.
But vaccine equity activists said the EU risked a repeat of what the World Health Organization dubbed "vaccine apartheid" during COVID-19.
"After a pandemic in which developing countries were sent to the back of the queue for vaccines and treatments, the EU and pharmaceutical companies seem to be planning to do it all over again in the next health crisis," said Mohga Kamal-Yanni, policy co-lead for the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
The Commission has selected Pfizer's plants in Ireland and Belgium to reserve capacity to produce mRNA vaccines. It selected Spanish companies Reig Jofre (RJFE.MC) and Laboratorios Hipra SA to reserve capacity for protein-based vaccines and Bilthoven Biologicals B.V. of the Netherlands for vector-based vaccines.
Pfizer said it "understands the urgent need for better pandemic preparedness and response planning and has taken several key steps towards readiness for potential future global disease outbreaks", without detailing those steps.
Reig Jofre said its deal with the EU reserved capacity for four years, with the possibility to extend for a maximum duration of eight years. Neither the companies or the EU disclosed any financial details of the agreement.
The World Health Organisation has urged governments and manufacturers to reserve up to 20% of any tests, vaccines or treatments for the global agency to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the "catastrophic failure" during the COVID pandemic, according to a draft of a global pandemic agreement currently being discussed.
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More about fire danger than air quality, I suspect. North Central US and Canada have been having hot, dry and windy conditions for some time now. The city of Flint, Michigan canceled their fireworks display due to fire danger. Probably a lot of smaller towns, too.
[Breitbart] The Chinese Communist Party’s quest to dominate Tibetan Buddhism continued this week with a press conference on Thursday to assert that the communist regime will control the death of the Dalai Lama and not allow him to reincarnate outside of China.
The state-controlled China Tibetology Research Center and the All-China Journalists Association assembled pro-communist “experts” to claim that the Chinese government has controlled the reincarnation of the living Buddhas since ancient times and that the Dalai Lama himself, living in exile in India since China’s colonization of Tibet in 1959, should have no role in the process. Tibetan Buddhists believe in the Dalai Lama as the foremost of several living Buddhas, who have reincarnated in various men throughout the ages to lead the faith.
The Chinese Communist Party considers Tibetan Buddhism a direct threat to the regime, which demands full allegiance to and worship of dictator Xi Jinping. As it has done with Christianity and Islam, Beijing has attempted to eradicate Tibetan Buddhism through a ban on children adhering to any faith and the practice of imposing communist “Sinicization” of the faith, placing trusted Party members in leadership positions.
The Han Chinese government has also attempted to erase Tibetan identity wholesale by imposing the Mandarin language in the region – even renaming Tibet with the Han name “Xizang” – and eroding the use of Tibetan written language in schools. The government has also forced thousands of Tibetan children into “boarding schools” in which they are indoctrinated into communism, learn Mandarin, and are kept from learning their culture or religion.
The human rights organization Freedom House ranked occupied Tibet as the least free region in the world in its 2023 Freedom in the World report, published in March.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The reason for the explosion of the bathyscaphe "Titan" could be microcracks that appeared from water pressure during regular diving. This version of the death of a deep-sea submersible, which was heading for the wreckage of the sunken Titanic, was put forward by Jasper Graham-Jones, an associate professor at the University of Plymouth . This was reported by the British edition of The Independent .
“Every time the bathyscaphe went down to the Titanic, tiny cracks formed. They remain small and inconspicuous, but at a critical moment they increase rapidly and uncontrollably,” he said.
In addition, according to him, the elongated shape of the "Titan" could increase the external pressure. Graham-Jones noted that despite the strength and durability of the composites from which the body of the bathyscaphe was made, they also fail and do it in a slightly different way than other materials.
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography Professor Chris Roman, in turn, noted that during each expedition, tiny cracks formed in the hull about 12 cm thick. At first they could be imperceptible and insignificant, but after a while they reached the limit - rapid and uncontrolled growth. He compared this process to repeatedly bending and unbending a wire, which leads to its breakage.
As IA Regnum reported, the bathyscaphe of the OceanGate Expedition company, designed to deliver tourists to the site of the sinking of the Titanic, disappeared on June 18 in the Atlantic Ocean. Communication with him was lost less than two hours after the dive. Five people were on board: OceanGate Expeditions founder (which owns the bathyscaphe) Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman and billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman, and French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet.
Rush, according to Fox News, admitted on camera two years ago that he "broke some rules" while building the Titan submarine.
The wreckage of the Titan was found a few days later during searches at a depth of 3,800 meters. Professor of Florida International University Eileen Maria Marty noted that the destruction of the body of the apparatus occurred in just a fraction of a millisecond, so the passengers did not have time to feel the pain.
The historian of the submarine fleet, captain of the 1st rank, officer of the submarine fleet Nikolai Cherkashin, in an interview with IA Regnum, suggested that faulty batteries became the cause of the explosion on the Titan.
Former Royal Navy submarine captain Ryan Ramsey suggested that one of the possible causes of the disaster was the erroneously designed bathyscaphe hull.
[Regnum] Chris Roman, professor at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island (USA), believes that microcracks in the body of the apparatus became the cause of the implosion (an explosion directed inward) on the Titan submersible. He told the Associated Press about it.
He recalled that the bathyscaphe had previously sank two dozen times to a depth, which led to microdamages in the hull 13 cm thick. In the end, the damage accumulated, the skin began to delaminate.
“This may be small and imperceptible at first, but it will soon become critical and lead to rapid and uncontrolled growth,” said the professor.
Roman also likened the process to repeatedly bending and unbending a wire, causing it to break.
As IA Regnum reported, the company OceanGate Expeditions, which organized the tragic immersion of the Titan to the Titanic, continued to invite guests on tours to the ship that sank in the Atlantic. The cost of one seat in the bathyscaphe is $250,000.
The Titan made its last dive on June 18, 2023. The vehicle included OceanGate Expeditions founder Stockton Rush , British billionaire Hamish Harding , French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood with 19-year-old son Suleiman.
Communication with the bathyscaphe was lost 1 hour 45 minutes after it went under water. A few days later, during the search, the wreckage of the Titan was found at the bottom at a depth of 3,800 meters. On June 29, the US Coast Guard announced that the wreckage of the apparatus had been lifted from the depths.
According to experts, the bathyscaphe exploded instantly, the passengers did not have time to feel the pain. The historian of the submarine fleet, captain of the 1st rank, officer of the submarine fleet Nikolai Cherkashin, in an interview with IA Regnum, suggested that faulty batteries became the cause of the explosion on the Titan.
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Experience w/composites for aircraft echoes same thing; microcracks that grow undetected until catastrophic failure.
Unlike aluminum, ‘ramp rash’from contact w/ GSE at the airports is not easily verified. That is one reason ndt for aircraft stuctures is so extensive. Unfortunately there was none of that cautious philosophy in play here.
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as opposed to DT (Destructive Testing) used by OceanGate
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Of course Ocean Gate design philosophy was more like this, they probably didn't do anything to avoid bubbles in the fabrication because of difference in opinion .
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An American lawyer who has spent the past two-and-a-half years in Cambodian prison for raping four children is now facing five federal counts in the US - after being deported back to the states earlier this month.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A search is underway for the person who targeted multiple businesses in Northeast Washington, D.C., with explosive devices and a 'Molotov cocktail style object.'
[Fox News] Employees reportedly said the Bud Light boycotts forced the glass bottling plant to shut down as they were 'no longer needed'
[Reuters] The European Commission has secured deals with Pfizer and several European drugmakers to reserve capacity to make up to 325 million vaccines per year in case of a future global health emergency, it said on Friday.
[Regnum] The reason for the explosion of the bathyscaphe "Titan" could be microcracks that appeared from water pressure during regular diving. This version of the death of a deep-sea submersible, which was heading for the wreckage of the sunken Titanic, was put forward by Jasper Graham-Jones, an associate professor at the University of Plymouth . This was reported by the British edition of The Independent .
