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Tourist(s) missing in submarine while trying to reach the Titannic
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-coa...-sub-1.6446841
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07-03-2023, 02:52 AM | #1142 |
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This makes me cringe...
"Carbon fibre makes noise,” Rush told David Pogue, a CBS News correspondent, last summer, during one of the Titanic expeditions. “It crackles. The first time you pressurize it, if you think about it—of those million fibres, a couple of ’em are sorta weak. They shouldn’t have made the team.” He spoke of signs of hull breakage as if it were perfectly routine. “The first time we took it to full pressure, it made a bunch of noise. The second time, it made very little noise.” |
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07-03-2023, 06:14 AM | #1143 |
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I'll never understand why people want to go where they don't belong.
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07-03-2023, 06:30 AM | #1144 |
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07-03-2023, 06:37 AM | #1145 |
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The surface locator device being held on with ZIP TIES kinda says it all about this fiasco
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07-03-2023, 06:51 AM | #1146 |
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Lile getting into a " sub" not made by the Navy, and going down to 12,000 ft.
But that's just me I realize it has been done, just seems the risk is much greater than flying. Last edited by stevieray; 07-03-2023 at 06:58 AM.. |
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The fact that he died is proof that he believed in what he was doing. I'll give him points for that. And I'll give him points for trying to be innovative, which is a good thing. It appears that his fatal flaw (literally fatal) was a huge ego where he always thought he was the smartest guy in the room and wouldn't listen to anyone else.
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07-03-2023, 12:52 PM | #1148 |
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Like being in a steel can going down the road at 75 mph next to idiots doing the same thing?
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07-03-2023, 01:12 PM | #1149 |
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I've always gotten the feeling that a hundred years from now they're going to look back at people driving as something wildly dangerous and crazy. Like, you're just trusting everyone not to pull the car into oncoming traffic for absolutely no reason? Without any kind of guidance system? What's to stop people from getting into head on collisions? And the answer will be uh, faith?
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07-03-2023, 01:24 PM | #1150 |
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Certainly a lot of hubris according to that New Yorker piece.
He's always chalking the problems up as part and parcel to being a "disruptor", comparing himself to great people, saying that people who really know what they're doing ignore all the rules. Well, no, you have to know enough about the relevant facts to know why those rules are there in the first place, and you have to know enough to rethink those rules intelligently. Like that bit about the acrylic of the window being rated for approx 1/3 of the depth he was taking it to. He didn't understand the rating system, or thought it was overly cautious and ignored it. (Bought the carbon fiber it said from NASA, after it was too old for them to use?) Interns were doing the electrical system. It wasn't redundant. He thought he knew better than everyone else. That's the guy's whole story in microcosm. Cutting corners, thinking these safety procedures and inspections are silly. Mistaking a force of will for capability. He spent all his time in that area between unsafe and dangerous. But there's no way to live there permanently. |
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He disrupted his lifespan that's for sure
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07-03-2023, 01:42 PM | #1152 |
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yes, that is the point of waivers
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07-03-2023, 02:20 PM | #1153 |
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At 2:04 of the video "this is the point of no return right here".
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07-04-2023, 02:07 PM | #1154 |
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Because, of course....
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush said the Titan submersible was struck by lightning during a test in the Bahamas back in 2018 Rush and his team started deep sea testing for the Titan submersible in the Bahamas back in April 2018, according to a post by OceanGate's Instagram account dated May 16, 2018. OceanGate said in the post that the submersible had "sustained lightning damage that affected over 70% of its internal systems." But the setback did not seem to faze Rush, who said in the interview that OceanGate was able to replace the Titan's faulty components within a "couple of days." "Fortunately, we are using commercial off-the-shelf and line-replaceable items. So in a matter of a couple of days, we were able to replace all those components," Rush said.
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Some sources are now saying that the submersible tried to ascend before imploding, indicating that they knew something was wrong.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...035044127.html Anyone else think that the "live failure tracking" system was showing a hull failure? It's also possible that the window started cracking, but I thought I saw a photo of it being recovered intact. Alternately, they may have started hearing the hull cracking, as was described and deemed harmless in the testing, but recognized that it was getting louder or something.
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