Posted on 07/02/2023 11:13:15 AM PDT by xxqqzz
“Very good article in the New Yorker about the number of people who warned Rush about the danger of his submersible. Rush was negligent at the very least.”
Sounds like Captain Edward Smith 111 years ago.
I read the New Yorker article, which is of course well written and researched. I liked the part about when the former Royal Navy submariner who was piloting the submursible was fired after complaining about safety issues, he asked the accountant to be the pilot. She was taken aback and quick when she got another job.
He hired college students at $15/hour to design parts of it. No point hiring experienced engineers who would tell him what was wrong with it.
A little like Captain Smith sailing full speed ahead into an ice field on a moonless night.
He didn’t want to have any 50 year old white guys working for him. Apparently, he actually said that.
The ceo bought the carbon fiber from Boeing as it was expired and of no use to them. 5” of dated carbon fiber thick and they heard cracking noises like small caliber shots going off on earlier trips.
“F@@@ you, “Business” “Insider”. It isn’t a theory. There are no other possibilities.”
Is the plastic window no longer in play as a possibility?
He didn’t take advice from 50 year white women either. I saw a short clip of a woman owner of a maritime business that tried to warn him..
From what I've read there are a couple of different ways to build with CF. There is what is called a wet process. Epoxy is applied to the CF during the manufacturing process. The dry process has the epoxy already embedded into CF and has to strictly temperature controlled. I've seen a few videos appearing to show OceanGate using both processes. I would think if reports are accurate that OceanGate used Boeing CF that it would have been of the dry type.
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