These guys are dead dead.
paying a quarter million dollars to get crushed to death with 4 other dumb broads in a sewer pipe. next time just go to saint tropez
$250,000
takes 12 hours
it's about the size of a king-size bed
no windows
you take turns looking out of a 10" porthole at the faint outline of the shipwreck
if they can find it
sometimes they can't find it
Even if everything did go right and this didn’t sink the idea that anyone would pay $250k to spend TWELVE HOURS IN THIS THING with four other people is fucking insane. I am not claustrophobic at all and this is fully nuts.
Alice from Trash Future & WTYP did a thread on twitter collecting some of the most funny/insane details about the sub, and here's some of the highlights:
CBS journalist David Pogue said that the sub got lost for about 5 hours while he was visiting (Pogue was on the mothership at the time), which was due to the fact that the sub doesn't have any sort of radio/GPS beacon on it to help locate it.
OceanGate wrote an entire blog post about why their sub doesn't need to be safety certified, which you can read here.
The ballast is in the form of metal pipes resting on a shelf, and in order to release it, everybody on the sub has to move to one side of the vessel in order to lean it over enough for the pipes to simply fall off.
When asked whether they're making any money off of this, the CEO said "Ahhh, no. So not yet. People might say 'Hey, that's a lot of money, $250,000.' But we went through over a million dollars of gas."
The CEO of the company that manufactured the hull of the sub would (up until 2016) give a $1000 bonus to any employee that got married while working for him, which violated a state law prohibiting discrimination based on marriage status, and would also reject any job applicants if he though they were Muslim.
The second paragraph of that safety blog post falls for the classic blunder of "This thing that is highly regulated might seem dangerous but is rarely an issue, so clearly it doesn't need to be regulated". Uhh, buddy, did you ever consider why it's not usually an issue??? Maybe something to do with strict safety regulations???
The part where they attribute most accidents to operator error is also great. Especially when contrasted with the fact that they're controlling the whole thing with 2 touch screens and a wireless Logitech game controller from 2005 that they can just pass around to whoever and give them full control of the sub at any given moment.
Why would they ever use wireless
It's more
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Until everyone passes out from the O2 system failing and is unconscious and unable to release the ballast.
It would work okay if there was also a failsafe where every 10 minutes you had to press a button to keep the ballast tied down or something.
God DAMN this is going to be a FIRE wtyp bonus episode
How many Xboxes is this disaster going to cost? I think this will be the costliest disaster they have covered since a billionaire is on board.
Please tell me the CEO was onboard when this engineering abortion went kaput
The CEO of the company running the dives was onboard, but the CEO in the bit you quoted is a different guy who runs the company that made the hull for the submersible.
Well damn...
The company that manufactured the hull (Electroimpact) is different from the one that actually operates the sub (OceanGate), so I'm assuming he wasn't on it unfortunately.
However, OceanGate's billionaire CEO was on the sub along with some British billionare I'd never heard of before all this, so it's at least taking out 2 rich assholes lol.
Wait the CEO was a billionaire too? That means 4/5 on board were billionaires
The CEO was in there too?????
That's nothing compared to even a cheap wedding. Billionaires stop being cheap assholes while pretending to be generous challenge.
I can't comprehend anything past that point because of the extremely loud techbro fapping sounds.
I haven't read the whole thing yet but did this dumbass ever hear of the FAA?