[mwsfc]

Obviously there seem to be some compelling reasons why the choice of a carbon hull was a faulty idea to begin with. The CEO would have been familiar with those critiques and proceeded anyway, presumably because of counter arguments he put more confidence in. Anyone out there familiar with what some of those counter points may have been?

[beowulfey]

Their website extensively mentions the acoustic monitoring system, with the thinking that any stress fractures would be detected prior to failure.

It probably did, but unfortunately, I think the window of time was not enough the return to the surface (perhaps milliseconds, but who knows)