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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

irrc it was pressure tested, just not stress tested.
a.k.a the first dive is almost guaranteed to go fine, but the next ones cause the material to gradually fail

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

According to Behind The Bastards they could hear the carbon fiber hull deteriorating below 4000' and Rush dismissed it as settling.