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Apparently the (unmanned) Nereus used a ceramic material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereus_(underwater_vehicle)

And interestingly a tubular design with ti flanges that were glued on.



It appears to me that some thougfhtful engineers and scientists worked on Nereus.
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