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Originally Posted by Tobra
Seems like the cracking would be carbon fibers breaking. Lots of noise on the first dive, less on each subsequent dive, until the last one
I still can't get past the epoxied butt joint holding it together
They fired all the old white guys that said it might not be safe
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could be the fibers, could be the glue holding the fibers, could be the glue unsticking from the fibers, could be the glue holding on the end caps. could be a new crack, could be an old crack extending, could be a lot of things. using AE as a go-no go on safety is not a great idea because of this. you dont really know for sure what you are hearing in the material. some of these events might have tell-tale AE signatures, but most probably do not, and to find out for sure what those tell tale signatures sound like, you gotta crush a lot of stuff, very specifically, which its very clear they did not do.