[Wilderness Conservative]

Was preventable? How profound. Somebody obviously went to college to be smart enough to figure that out.

[PIF]

Titan submersible disaster that killed 5 on way to Titanic was preventable as the movie made abundantly clear. It was all about one man’s ego.

[montag813]

The Titanic sinking was also “preventable.” That, and a MetroCard, can get me on the NYC subway.

[George from New England]

So sunk in the same fashion as that space shuttle seal it seems.
That evil 32 degrees F.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Well, I hate to be so persnickity, but the whole Nintendo game controller thing would have been a deal breaker for me.

[dfwgator]

No s___, Sherlock!

[Leaning Right]

Recall that the submersible’s owner, Stockton Rush, went out of his way to NOT hire old white men. He preferred a young and diverse team to work on his vessel.

Stupid in the extreme.

The old white men had the necessary knowledge and experience.
The young and diverse team, not so much.

[EVO X]

For anybody interested, here is the 335 page coast guard report on the incident.

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Aug/05/2003773004/-1/-1/0/SUBMERSIBLE%20TITAN%20MBI%20REPORT%20(04AUG2025).PDF

I haven’t read it yet, but my guess is there is nothing really new for people that have followed the implosion and loss of life.

[madison10]

We knew all this when the explosion occurred.

[Nateman]

I did the ultimate in preventing. I didn’t go.

[lurk]

Ya think?

[BenLurkin]

Did they find the Rubik’s cube?

[Nateman]

Typical liberal reaction: needs more oversight. They never ask how effective Government oversight actually is. Milton Friedman made the excellent point that the people who do the Government oversight are usually controlled by the industry they are watching. It is simply because the industry being watched has the most incentive to control the people watching it.

[Jim W N]

I see no date cited in this article.

“Preventable”? Even to the causal observer it looked like train wreck waiting to happen.

[Pontiac]

The family of Nargeolet, a veteran French undersea explorer known as “Mr. Titanic,” filed a more than $50 million lawsuit last year that said the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster.

I highly doubt that was true.

The implosion would take about 1/1000 of a second.

They were dead, their brains crushed before their nerves had a chance to fire.

[Drew68]

Titan submersible disaster that killed 5 on way to Titanic was preventable, Coast Guard says

Preventable up until the point they put it in the water.

[Delta 21]

[catnipman]

there’s an a amazing documentary about this: “Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster”

[HerrBlucher]

The main problem with the design was that it used dis -similar materials, carbon, fiber, and titanium, and it had a cylindrical shape rather than spherical. The carbon fiber could not handle the repeated cycles of high pressure, it lasted a few times down to the Titanic and then it just gave out right at the contact point with the titanium ends.

[Lurker]

Duh.

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