I don’t admire the engineering. It turns out to have been done poorly and on the cheap.
I’m struggling to find much sympathy for anyone involved to be fair.
The company took risks and the customers failed to do their due diligence.
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It sounds like they had a quick death; sad that that’s best case scenario for this ill advised adventure.
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Here’s a good interview today with James Cameron, who knows a thing or two about this stuff. Makes the good point that carbon fiber can delaminate. All other submersibles – there had never been a fatality from the loss of a pressure hull until this one – are made of a contiguous material – acrylic, steel, titanium. Toward the end makes the point that he’s aware they had warnings and were trying to surface; they had dumped their ballast.
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Nazis banging on a window?
Those are the same tools my wife uses to chase the hawks out of our yard.
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Mission accomplished
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So helpful of them to report this now.
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Man, I fuckin hate that thing.
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From the article:
The Navy then immediately relayed that information to the on-scene commanders leading the search effort, and it was used to narrow down the area of the search, the official said.
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It’s always interesting, the difference between what’s said to the public vs. what’s said behind the scenes.
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I had no idea that there was so many dives to the Titanic going on. I naively assumes that visits were rare but Paul-Henri Nargeolet who was on the submersible had apparently been over 100 times, and James Cameron himself estimates that he has spent more time at the site than the captain did on the ship.
Edit, Paul-Henri Nargeolet has been to the Titanic over 35 times, but that is still many more times that I would have expected.
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It’s like the old question:
when does it stop being “grave Robbing” and start being “Archeology”?
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The way they were just scrunched up without actual seats would have meant anything causing the vessel to flip or twist from upright position would have had all of them smashing into each other, and lose the control joystick, crack screens, and it’s just spiraling out of control at that point.
This is just incredibly maddening narcissistic rich-people hubris. OceanGate ought to get billed for the rescue efforts, I know some countries do that if it’s because they were doing some stupid ill-advised stunt.
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Don’t name your boat after Titans, it never goes well.
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“Titan” suggests something big, strong, and tested by time — if they wanted a reference from mythology, “Icarus” would instead have invoked a figure who famously suffered from bad parenting and equipment failure, before drowning 
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