Titan missing submersible

Either way, you know and take the risks in something like that so not the worst way to go. Kinda sucks they never got to see the Titanic wreckage before snuffing it, though
 
It was a shock to learn they controlled the sub with a domestic games controller.
Domestic products might have a 'mean time to faiure' of 500 hours or so.
If you apply that atitude to other systems on the sub, it all sounds amateur.
We now know that industry experts spelt out warnings before hand, but the CEO dismissed them.
Compare this to any system fitted to an aircraft. They are all tested to hell, before being approved.
It would have made sense to send the sub un-manned down to far deeper depths, and cycle that exercise until destruction.
The paying passengers were guinea-pigs, without fully understanding that.

While this story dominated news channels world-wide, another disaster got buried.
A healthy young man tried to swim the English Channel, to raise money for charity.
He had a support boat, but someone didn't pay enough attention. There was a 2 day search for the swimmer,
which was eventually called off.
 
Sky Blue Lou said:
I was 3 so no recollection however living 15 miles from the shipyard lots of local people knew someone, maybe once or twice removed, that was on that trip including my family. A close family friend was offered a spot but decided to stay ashore.
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I was ten at the time.
 
We used carbon fibre pressure vessels with titanium end domes on one of our subs. They didn't behave as expected in pressure tests so we had to only use them at shallower depths than originally intended. We found them reliable at these shallower depths but they didn't offer the weight saving that we were expecting.
 
spantini said:
Before this is over, one or more people from OceanGate are gonna wish they were in that sub.
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I doubt that. Their CEO made all the decisions as to how that sub was constructed and materials used in construction. He paid the ultimate price, along with uber rich passengers who unfortunately decided that it would be an adventurous fun trip to make deep diving to the site where Titanic rests at the bottom of the ocean.

If you want to see the Titanic.....rent "A Night To Remember" or watch numerous accountings of deep sea dives to the wreck site on the History Channel.
 
There will be nothing to sue. Whatever happens, OceanGate is already finished.

I found an interesting documentary DVD on diving to the wreck, then a bit later bought an 8 DVD box set of diving to the wreck (which included that first DVD).
I am now pretty Titanic'd up.
 
60's guy said:
If you want to see the Titanic.....rent "A Night To Remember" or watch numerous accountings of deep sea dives to the wreck site on the History Channel.
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Or get yourself on an ROV expedition to the Titanic. There really is something about standing in the ROV control room with all the screens around you that you don't get from watching it on TV. (NB - the times that I've been in the ROV control room we've been looking at natural features rather than wrecks but I'm assuming the experience is similar).
 
60's guy said:
I doubt that. Their CEO made all the decisions as to how that sub was constructed and materials used in construction. He paid the ultimate price, along with uber rich passengers who unfortunately decided that it would be an adventurous fun trip to make deep diving to the site where Titanic rests at the bottom of the ocean.

If you want to see the Titanic.....rent "A Night To Remember" or watch numerous accountings of deep sea dives to the wreck site on the History Channel.
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Stockton Rush the CEO also fired David Lochridge an engineer and director at the company who told them the sub wasn't safe - had him escorted out the door.

It's unfortunate that the other passengers had to experience the karma that Rush experienced. But they were wealthy, supposedly intelligent people - they should have done research on the company and the vessel. Ultimately they paid a king's ransom to go look at scrap metal through a window...and never even saw it. They could have saved money and watched OceanGate's free video or any number of films/videos of the Titanic wreck.

 
More evidence of Stockton Rush's grand mal dickheadedness. Another "uninspiring white guy" who tried to warn Rush but was testily dismissed. I'm sure Dave Matthews will classify him as a "hater" for not believing and calling half-assed tech half-assed tech.

Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show

In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.

Mr. Rush responded that he was "tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation".

"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."


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Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show

Warnings over the sub's safety were dismissed by OceanGate's CEO, emails seen by the BBC show.
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