Perfect analogy...
Reverse psychology?
Some people can’t admit that their big idea is a bad idea?
It was an interesting interview, and he made many valid technical points. He said his submersible spent three years in computer design and analysis before they began construction.
The man was a fool. He still could have made lots of money going down 2000 or 3000 feet and mapped out shipwrecks. He might have even, over the course of his business, found unclaimed shipwrecks that had unclaimed gold.
He was an Icarius in every sense of the word.
A polite “we told you so” from the Director.
The CEO of Oceangate sleeps with fishes.
Kind of like going ahead with Avatar 2.
The CEO’s mysterious lasts word... Roseglub!
It’s sad people died of course.
I have just a passing interest in Titanic. But, have seen some TV shows, with some incredible photography, apparently done by drone or robotic devices.
It’s hard to imagine that sending people into such a dangerous environment, would give us better pictures or knowledge.
There was a relatively small margin of safety in the best scenario. Normal operation was taking the sub into the red zone. And apparently their technical expertise was based on ‘girl power’.
So it imploded at depth in milliseconds and they never knew what made them fish food. Probably wasn’t enough collapsed volume to support dieseling, not that it matters.
Building a Sub from Recycling is bad because recycling is renamed garbage
(’Some of the top players in the deep submergence engineer community even wrote letters to the company saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and it needed to be certified and so on.’)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2016%3A18&version=KJV
In this case, literally.
It’s a sad metaphor for several CEOs these days
Let’s go visit a human sacrifice mass grave for fun.
Whoops! Now we’re part of the sacrifice too.
Remind you of anything?
“You collect ships. I collect souls. And when I fill my quota, I send a boatload home. This will make management happy.” - Ghost Ship
“It is said in Japan that when a person dies in extreme sorrow or rage, the emotion remains, becoming a stain upon that place. Death becomes a part of that place, killing everything it touches. Once you have become a part of it, it will never let you go.“ - The Grudge
“Paul-Henri Nargeolet..”
From everything I’ve heard, he of all people should have declined to go on this glorified egg shell.
Where did the reporter get the idea that the sub made it to within 200’ of the bow of the Titanic, only to implode?
Did not get that from the press conference.
Jack Posobeic on Twitter reports the navy detected the implosion on Sunday but kept it quiet while the Hunter Biden stuff was being presented by Congress.
Could someone make a post? I can’t do it from this (very old) cell phone.
And the company heads were traveling on both the Titanic and the minisub when each went down.
But today’s guy didn’t get a chance to sneak into a lifeboat and survive.
What silence? Did they ask him 5 days ago what he thought, and he clammed up? Then he didn’t talk for 5 days?
