Posted on 07/06/2023 6:08:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
There will be lawsuits, I guarantee.
He had to have known it was unsafe, and didn’t care.....................
Designed and built by people who get their news from Comedy Central...................
There are small subs classified to “full ocean depth” (36k feet) with the pressure chambers tested to 150% in labs without a single loss for decades. They are incredibly expensive and only have two chairs in a very cramped cockpit full of *manual* switches/valves for redundant systems (not just a touchscreen and game controller).
The classified subs that go this deep are not suitable for tourists at all and this shmuck was trying to go around every safety consideration to make it so...
He wanted fame and fortune.
He got fame.....................
This entire thing is bizzare.
Evidently, neither was the Titan.
Magnets.
Anyone can build a submersible, it’s the re-surfaceable part that is hard.
Bizarre to the max.....................
When I was a kid I thought about using an old LP Gas tank as a submarine...................
The failure to obtain certifications was the big issue brought up by his lead engineer…who got fired for exposing it in writing.
Live on the edge, fall off the edge.
There were a lot of things that went wrong which got them in that situation. That said, being in that situation, it was a perfectly reasonable response and course of action.
“Go to sleep...” = quit whining, conserve O2.
The US Navy, Russia, and France have 2-person spherical submersibles which will go deeper than that. I think there are also privately owned ones, like the one James Cameron went to the Titanic 35 times on. The Russians were doing something similar, selling rides down to the Titanic, but they could only take one tourist at a time. Rush’s “innovation” was to make a larger cylindrical submersible which takes more tourists at a time.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Total psycho.
But - A “Princeton Man” so there’s always that going for him ,except he’s still a dead total psycho.
“The rest of the industry doesn’t do what Srockton Rush did.”
Working in the aviation maintenance field for 36 years, because of the obvious concern for air crew safety, we had a saying....the Russian proverb made famous by former US President Ronald Reagan “trust but verify”.
Since crew safety IMO is just as critical when going beneath the waves, especially in the light of what has now happened, I’ll stick with my belief that the whole industry needs indepth critical oversight and review.
I keep wondering if they were stowing the submersible outside between trips. The carbon fiber does age rapidly when exposed to sunlight.
I bet they did.
With no tarps..................
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