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1 posted on 07/04/2023 6:14:49 AM PDT by libh8er
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I’ve seen nothing to make me think that this disaster needs to be laid off on the team driving the sub. Looks to me like total responsibility belongs with the person who had it built and the way he had it built.


2 posted on 07/04/2023 6:19:52 AM PDT by Flint
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He hired a surfer dude because he liked his stories or something


3 posted on 07/04/2023 6:20:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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That kind of mentality got himself and 4 other innocents killed.


7 posted on 07/04/2023 6:25:52 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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His quote was worse .
He did not want to hire 50 year old White Guys .
Oh course he was one and second
he just fired one an expert that said his craft was a Death trap .
You reap what you sow.


9 posted on 07/04/2023 6:33:23 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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DIVERSITY ends the lives of FIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklZTfPTSlE&ab_channel=BetterBachelor


10 posted on 07/04/2023 6:35:28 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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Stockton Rush was a psychotic narcissist, but now he’s dead.


11 posted on 07/04/2023 6:37:40 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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There’s nothing as inspirational as making it back safely


12 posted on 07/04/2023 6:37:50 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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Some years ago, education departments at severals universities wanted to create a major, education engineering.
An engineering program run by the education department.
I wonder if those programs ever started up and what the graduates of those programs are doing.


13 posted on 07/04/2023 6:41:54 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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That’s a shame.
I guess he couldn’t handle the pressure.

I’ll see myself out.


15 posted on 07/04/2023 6:46:22 AM PDT by Brasky (You miss every shot you never take.)
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My guess? It was complete BS. He was just covering for the fact that he was running out of cash. IMHO, he was either (1) unwilling to dilute his shares by selling a chunk of his company to a wealthy investor or (2) unable to attract investor interest in a very niche business that might never make a dime. So he cut corners in hiring, knowing that an experienced submariner would not only not go along, but also go to the media about the safety problems he was ignoring. When the wreckage of this company is examined, I expect you will find it was on the verge of financial collapse.


16 posted on 07/04/2023 6:48:04 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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many OceanGate employees were fresh graduates but seemed professional.

Translation: These kids are super smart, they have the paperwork that even says so, they will tell you how smart they are, the problem is that the only "hands on experience" in just about anything involved a computer screen and their pants down.
18 posted on 07/04/2023 6:48:48 AM PDT by eyeamok
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"Rush, who died in June on board his submersible, the Titan"

I'm not sure this is technically correct. I would suspect, although it's really a matter of nanoseconds, the Titan ceased to exist as anything but a collection of parts, before the ill-fated crew died...ergo there was really nothing left for them to be, "on board," although they would have never known the difference.

19 posted on 07/04/2023 6:49:00 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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Many years ago, the company I was working for hired a guy who announced unilaterally that he was going to replace his entire department with people just out of college, and that his plan would include turning that staff over about every four years. "We want people who are hungry and hip," was what he purportedly said to the shareholders.

Alas, within weeks he was seen in public consorting with a much younger employee, and someone at the top started to question just why he was so hot to hire "young talent." He left while the leaving was good, and his plan disappeared down the memory hole.

20 posted on 07/04/2023 6:49:37 AM PDT by niteowl77
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Me thinks Stockton Rush had no clue about submarines in water out of water maybe but not in water


23 posted on 07/04/2023 6:57:15 AM PDT by butlerweave
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A submarine made by engineers who were hired by merit:

Hey, Adam, this isn't right, we have to fix it now!

A submarine made by people who were hired because of racial preference:

Hey LaTrill, this piece is a bit smaller, but I think if use duct tape and caulking, it should be fine!

Guess which one OceanGate used??

24 posted on 07/04/2023 7:30:07 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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Not so much enthusiasm but he didn’t want anyone to argue with him or even disagree. He was an arrogant, know-it-all ass and he is dead now because of it. Too bad others fell into his web and died as well.


28 posted on 07/04/2023 8:03:12 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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The story of the Titan has origins in Greek mythology, where the Titans were the gods preceding the Olympians.

They were overthrown, defeated and banished to Tartarus - the deep abyss.

30 posted on 07/04/2023 8:13:54 AM PDT by yelostar
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Typically, CEO’s are arrogant, narcissistic Aholes. What was un-typical about this was that the Aholes died for his arrogance.

That does not happen nearly often enough.

It is not like Icarus getting toasted ‘cause he was inspired to try something he thought would work. It was simply another entitled Ahole demanding that the world comply with his expectations.


31 posted on 07/04/2023 8:58:29 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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