Posted on 06/27/2023 12:38:07 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Jewish billionaire Jay Bloom says he and his son Sean were offered two seats on the ill-fated Titan submersible but declined to join over safety concerns and scheduling issues.
The American real estate developer, who is based in Las Vegas, said Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman ended up taking their available seats.
Dawood and his son were among the five people who died instantly when the submersible imploded on a mission to explore the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.
“Every time I see a picture of that Pakistani businessman and his 19-year-old son, I think how easily that could have been me and my 20-year-old son – but for the grace of God,” Bloom told Reuters.
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This guy had safety concerns and didn't go.
Who looks stupid now?
Let’s go in an experimental sub with a Nintendo controller 2.5 miles deep in the open ocean.
Common sense is now newsworthy. Good for him.
He also had “scheduling issues.”
My guess is at the moment, the scheduling issues were more critical. The safety issues took precedence last week. Every time something like this happens, people line up to show how “smart” they were. I’m not buying it from this guy.
The forces etc deep under water are totally different.
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I knew that was true but didn’t think much about it until you mentioned it. That sub design probably would have held up just fine in the vacuum of space, where the forces of pressurization exert and outward force on the hull, but even though they are the opposite the forces can’t possible as the inward compressive forces of deep sea pressures on the hull. The sub design was long and I remember seeing in a video how they wrapped it with the carbon-fiber striping all along the cylinder. A cylinder is going to be weak at the middle along its axis. A more spherical shape would have been a better design for compressive forces.
Actually thing about what you just posted makes it even more confounding about how careless and narcissistic this Rush guy was.
He had a vibrant personality and should have just went into sales instead. That sub was a piece of junk thrown together to sell seats.
He was also sold on projecting this new wokey type image to appeal to young people.
C'mon, man, don't get all hyperbolic about how the sub was constructed.
It's laughable that you think that they used a Nintendo Controller on a multi-million dollar deep sea research vessel designed and constructed by experts in their fields.
It was a Logitech controller...
Had he been on the sub when the mission failed, he would have been crushed.
Who?
Anyone who automatically believes everything they read.
I doubt he really cares.....
And the controller was wireless, what could go wrong? But the controller is not the reason the sub collapsed I think it was the mating of two dissimilar materials, carbon fiber and titanium, plus all the compression cycles it had gone through before the final trip. I think prior to this fatal trip the sub had gone down to the Titanic at least seven times.
That five inch thick carbon fiber hull would have been completely unnecessary in outer space. Being pressurized internally, and only to 14.7 PSI, a much thinner hull would have sufficed.
That sub had the strength of diversity holding back that water at 2.5 miles down!!!
Ideology vs physics.
Not sure why the fact he’s Jewish was so important that it had to be mentioned several times.
Might have something to do with the story being published in the “Jewish Chronicle”. Some people take ethnicity and tribalism very seriously.
He should have used a Commodore 64. Well known for their rugged reliability.
Who? The guy who ignored all safety warnings from experts about the construction of his submersible. The guy who thought that safety was stifling to innovation.
Soon, the number of people that turned down going will exceed the population of TX. Everyone wants to attach themselves to a big story.
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