Don't drill a hole into carbon fiber. It ends badly.
I believe that the interior bits are screwed into an inner liner, not the actual pressure hull. You can see the gap between the liner and hull in the image.
Man, even if all had gone well, that's a tiny space to be crammed in for days with 4 other people.
Wasn't the actual dive supposed to be 8 hours and the whole trip (including getting to wreck on Mother ship) 4 days total?
William legate is not an automatically trustworthy news source
fair enough 🙈