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

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    4 months 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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      4 months 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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        4 months 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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          4 months 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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          4 months 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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          4 months 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