[PSUBS-MAILIST] Triton 6600

[Alan via Personal_Submersibles]

Was looking at this article on the Triton 6600 that has an 8" acrylic sphere.
It looks like they are press forming the acrylic. Does anyone know anything about their process.?
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/triton-unveils-66002-worlds-deepest-diving-personal-submarine
To reach these new depths, Triton constructed an advanced acrylic hull for its passengers to sit inside while maneuvering below the water. Traditionally, acrylic spheres in submersibles are made by casting two separate halves together. Instead, the hull of the Triton 6600/2 is built from single slabs of acrylic that are heated to a pliable forming temperature, then molded into the frame. “The acrylic has always been the problem in the past. There was no one who could make the material thick enough, with the quality you needed, to have a sub go to such depths as with the new 6600/2,” says principal designer John Ramsay. “The innovative construction is the big piece, and the properties of this acrylic are absolutely fantastic—they’re substantially better than what would typically be required for an acrylic pressure vessel.” At eight inches thick, the Triton 6600/2 features the “thickest acrylic sphere in a submersible to date,” according to Michael Haley, Triton’s U.S. director of sales and marketing.

Alan
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