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by EA-3167 1097 days ago
The thing is, if something went very wrong like that, the default would be to cut the ballast (which in this case is held on by electromagnets) and surface naturally. Same with power loss or pretty much anything else.

There isn't a LOT that could happen that wouldn't lead to either them surfacing pretty rapidly, or imploding almost instantaneously.

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"You get everyone to lean to one side and the ballast (pipes) roll off"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/20/inside-titan...