Catastrophic Tank Rupture

[rjack]

So pic4 is the ruptured one? Split right down the side? Does anyone know what pressure they were at? Those walls don't look very thick. The outsides of some of the other cylinders look like hell btw, its a wonder they all didn't blow.

Super happy nobody was hurt here.

[Randy Thornton]

Holy crap! That's gonna leave a mark! Can't believe no one was injured! I imagine the shop owner is breathing a heavy sigh of relief!

[cmalinowski]

I'm wondering where the other half of the cylinder went.

I don't think there is another half. If you look at the far end of the tank it looks like the "top" was intact and the tank split down the middle. Looks like a long, skinny tank if it's the same as the one in the sand far away from the main debris.

CHris

[Numus]

Has anyone got the word if this was a K, T, surplussed sub, ect bottle..

[UCFKnightDiver]

I was about a block down the street when the tank ruptured eating at Scampys after diving the jetties, it was quite a loud BOOM and it rattled the building

[OutlawCaver]

The cylinder that ruptured is 16ft long and about the same diameter as a T bottle and approx. 3/8in thickness. It appears to be an extruded pipe design with hemispherical end caps welded on. You can clearly see where the weld broke around the cap as the pipe laid open.

[rjack]

The cylinder that ruptured is 16ft long and about the same diameter as a T bottle and approx. 3/8in thickness. It appears to be an extruded pipe design with hemispherical end caps welded on. You can clearly see where the weld broke around the cap as the pipe laid open.

That is alot of gas. Do you know the service pressure? Were these in fact submarine bottles? (I have never seen one, you'd think we would up here near a sub base but alas no)