"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Unfortunately, especially for the widow of that Pakistani fellow, who lost both her hubby and her son, Stockton Rush was not handy enough!
Posted on 06/22/2023 10:39:47 AM PDT by xxqqzz
A German adventurer who paid to see the wreck of the Titanic on the missing Titan submarine two years ago has called the voyage a 'suicide mission'.
Arthur Loibl, 60, dived down 12,500 feet to the Atlantic wreck site in August 2021 and says he was 'incredibly lucky' to survive.
His story echos much that has been learned about the OceanGate tourist vessel since it vanished on Sunday, with past reports highlighting how many components were purchased off-the-shelf. It has also been revealed to have been uncertified to dive to the necessary depths to reach the Titanic.
Speaking to German tabloid Bild, Loibl recalls the first submarine they tried didn't work and a second attempted dive had to be abandoned. He said parts fell off and the mission went into the water five hours late due to electrical problems.
This, Loibl suspects, could be the cause of the Titan's disappearance.
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I guess being free to be a fool is part of liberty.
But I resent him taking folks with him.
Sounds like the early days of aviation.
It’s not something people expect nowadays.
In the early days of aviation, there wasn’t much to build upon. This guy had plenty to build upon and learn from yet chose to ignore it. This did not have to happen.
I'm not a professional engineer, but I'm pretty sure that parts falling off is a bad sign. And that you should back up zip ties with duct tape if you're going to go down past 12,000 feet.
“Shortly before the sub was launched, Loibl says the bracket of the stabilisation tube - used to provide balance as the craft descends into the depths - fell off the vessel.
‘That was reattached with zip ties. That didn’t worry me,’ he tells Bild.”
LOL.
Agreed. The stumper is why the German went ahead after seeing the level of competence.
No refunds.
Germans are cheap......................
Some 50 year old white guys will probably do the accident reconstructon after they finish scraping what’s left off the ocean floor.
If this sub was such a piece of crap why did people get on board? Does having a lot of money make you stupid or reckless for no good reason? How did it not get around that this venture was a lousy bet?
They hadn’t killed anybody until this trip.
The release form specifically says no refunds
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Unfortunately, especially for the widow of that Pakistani fellow, who lost both her hubby and her son, Stockton Rush was not handy enough!
Game Controllers Driving Drones, Nukes
So are people really that ignorant that the use of a game controller in the submersible wigs them out, or is this angle being flogged in the enemedia for a reason, both...?
And after seeing all that, he climbed inside anyway. I seriously don’t understand why.
I used to work for as jerk who operated like that. All the top officers in the building were very attractive women. They saw what he was doing and considered him a pig. But he paid them well.
You’d think the survivors would’ve warned people and/or called authorities.
I think there’s going to be a lot of complication over exactly how much he disclosed to the people about the shortcuts he took.
He was taking them as ‘tourists’. Some of them probably didn’t know exactly what precautions should have been in place. Other people working in the same ‘industry’ had complained about his operation in the past.
I remember those ads. We saw them in comic books.
My brother and I were always building spaceships and forts and stuff out of cardboard boxes...
This whole vehicle sounds suspiciously like my 1948 Harley Panhead motorcycle. Parts fell off and spare parts came from home depot. (nuts, bolts, screws, hoses, oil line valves, wire, etc.)
It was a great bike, but I wouldn’t have any faith that it would run for more than a few miles without repairs.
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