Titan passenger says OceanGate CEO told them to SLEEP when they got stuck at bottom of Atlantic

MSN ^ | July 4, 2023 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo

[Sirius Lee]

Absolute clown operation.

[Red Badger]

The CEO was an idiot.....................

[V_TWIN]

“Once the vessel’s weights dissolved after 24 hours, the submersible would be able to rise to the surface.”

WHAT!!??.....UNBELIEVABLE.

[Openurmind]

“electronic drops for the weights.”

Fly by wire weight release? Absolutely stupid, manual or forget it. Same with steering and brakes on vehicles.

[V_TWIN]

The whole industry needs a rectal exam.

[ConservativeMind]

He had all sorts of “duct tape” solutions, but, at some point, you need something for duct tape to stick to.

[Red Badger]

I think they were the whole industry.

Small subs were never made to go that deep.

Even the US NAVY subs don’t go that deep.........................

[PapaBear3625]

So they knew for a while that their design was NOT safe to carry passengers.

[Red Badger]

24+ hours under constant 5000psi, and the weights would not be the only thing to ‘dissolve’...............

[Zhang Fei]

My guess is the CEO was strapped for cash, and either wouldn’t sell shares that would dilute his control or couldn’t sell shares because it might not have looked like a business that would ever make money. That’s the usual reason for cutting corners.

DeLorean went into the cocaine business to fund his company and reliability went into the crapper, as he was running low on cash. Of course, in the auto business, when you take short cuts, the worst that happens, usually, is your customers get stranded on the shoulder.

[dforest]

The more I hear about this makes it very hard to understand why anyone would get on this thing to see a decaying wreck.

The people that lived to tell the story of their own experience on this cheesy sub give me the creeps.

These stories must not have gotten much notice outside the submersible community or nobody would do this.

Stockton was very careless.

[Red Badger]

And I bet you they never did a full X-Ray scan of that pitiful hull after any of the trips or tests, to check for stress cracks..........

[V_TWIN]

Right after this incident I saw IIRC was a CEO from another submersible outfit stating “Rush and Oceansgate had given the whole industry a black eye” so I figured there were at leat a few more.

[dforest]

I guess they even lost a robotic submersible during the search operations. It couldn’t handle the depths.

[Do_Tar]

It sounds like Titan had multiple redundancy in this case.
Electronic, then hydraulic and then dissolving weights.

[jaydubya2]

I read he refused non-destructive testing because of the cost, and did not get it certified because it was only used in international waters which don’t require certification.

[Red Badger]

There are ones that go down much shallower depths to see sunken ships and reefs, but none that I know of that go down that deep......................

[Red Badger]

Cutting corners and being cheap cost him his life and the lives of the others....................

[Zhang Fei]

[So they knew for a while that their design was NOT safe to carry passengers.]

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The guy was likely underfunded because nobody thought this was a viable business. When you can’t raise money to do what you need to do, some will bail and some will cut corners. When corner-cutting somehow emerges triumphant, the guy who made it work is hailed as a visionary. Elon Musk was supposedly on his slug of cash and about to pack it in, when Tesla finally got production off the ground.