https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/us/titan-submersible-implosion-lawsuit/index.html

  • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    the guy was an experienced diver who went down to the james cameron ship 37 times and still went inside that death trap

    amazing

    • Lookorex@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      From the article, it seems like he was unaware of how shit the submersible actually was.

      • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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        1 month ago

        Literally anyone looking at the submarine could know how shit it was

        Like the thing straight up looked incredibly janky. Thin walls and an interior that consisted of a gym mat and a plastic Logitech controller that I could hear the plastic creaking on just through photos of it

        It didn't take an engineer to look at it and conclude it was fucked

      • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        It's gotta be easy to prove in court that the guy was experienced enough to know better. But I might be wrong.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    they were the ones to skimp (heavily) on safety.

    for once this penny pinching lead to their suffering instead of ours.

    i hope they don't get a penny.

    • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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      1 month ago

      Im pretty sure the family of the guy that was hired to pilot the thing didn't design and build a death tube of brittle carbon fiber

      • Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        1 month ago

        the guy that was hired to pilot

        He's alive, he was fired before the accident because he had safety concerns and his boss took over as the pilot.

        https://www.businessinsider.com/former-oceangate-pilot-worried-stockton-rush-people-killed-ego-email-2023-7

        • Rom [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          "I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. Carbon fiber and titanium? There's a rule you don't do that," Rush said in a 2021 interview with Mexican YouTuber Alan Estrada. "Well, I did."

          An expert previously told Insider that photos of the Titan sub wreckage suggest that the most likely explanation for the vessel's implosion was that the carbon-fiber hull collapsed under the immense pressure of the ocean.

          chefs-kiss

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          "I'm rich that makes me smarter and better than a professional!"

          dies

          Rather poetic, really.

        • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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          1 month ago

          well idk what the French submersible pilot was doing onboard then but i'm still pretty sure it wasn't him or his family designing and cutting corners on the thing

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    From my broke ass Marxist dialectical analysis perspective I both feel sorry for them because submarines are awesome and who wouldn't want to go in one but at the same time for fucks sake nobody should have that much money it's like a disease ya y'all need treatment