Posted on 06/21/2023 12:14:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, is aboard the submerged vessel along with billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman. Since the 22-foot craft lost contact with the surface early Sunday, critics have come forward to blast the company’s safety practices. But Rush was previously adamant that he values youth over experience when it comes to assembling his crews.
“When I started the business, one of the things you’ll find, there are other sub operators out there, but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military sub-mariners, and they — you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys,” Rush told Teledyne Marine representatives before the expedition began. Teledyne Marine made the sonar systems and the navigation systems for the vessel.
“I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational,” he continued. “And I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator, one of our techs, can be inspirational. So we’ve really tried to get very intelligent, motivated, younger individuals involved because we’re doing things that are completely new.”
“We’re taking approaches that are used largely in the aerospace industry as related to safety and some of the preponderance of checklists, things we do for risk assessments, things like that that are more aviation-related than ocean-related,” he declared. “We can train people to do that; we can train someone to pilot the sub. We use like game controller so anybody can drive the sub.”
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oh well, past comments come back to bite you in the butt sometimes.........
You can say that again.
Shoot, they may have insisted on an industrial controller and redundant systems for safety. Yep, better to have a 25 year old kid with a wireless game controller and no batteries for backup.
I’m sure someone here knows... How long does it take, and what education does it take, to become the captain of submarine??? How many submarines are there to even command?
Nice try, but no way I'm telling you.
The Beatles has a yellow one but they may be an exception.
Brilliant.
Yes, young people do have to learn things the hard way….quite often. (sarc)
Lesson learned…lives lost.
In other words, he didn’t want to hire the best people that he could find. Us 50+ year old white guys with 30+ years job experience usually fit that category.
Go woke, go choke (for air)
I guess Darwin rears his head even with the folks with supposedly “High IQ’s”
Feel bad for the other four, although they should have possibly done some more research into this Adventure / Company / Clown CEO
How’s that working out for you?
And retired military submariners apparently...stupid is as stupid does!!
A 50 year old white guy figured out where they were but wasn’t inspired to tell anyone.
If minorities hate whitey so much, then why do they want to follow us into our countries and use things invented by whitey?! If whitey is so danged oppressive, shouldn’t they be trying to get away from us?!
They prefer trying to take it away from us, as in steal it.
He appeared to be in his 60s. A fat guy in a vast office, overlooking the building's courtyard. Like a potentate overseeing his harem and supplicants.
Because we have all the cool stuff. Which we stole from them.
The Greeks stole math from black Egyptians. Didn't you know that? That's why there's no math in Africa. Whitey stole it from them.
Let the lawsuits begin!
He likely has a sinking feeling he blew it.
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