Here’s the NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/22/1183661199/sub-titan-titanic-missing-search
Thank you!
Everything we’ve learned further about the sub has been not great. The windows had been said to not be able to withstand half the depths it was meant to go to; the sub survived test dives to depth but came back up with damage; and the company fired off the staff member who suggested the design was unsafe and didnt want to approve anything until they could get further tested. Im not an expert on submarines or diving, but all the news Ive heard about this thing seems to suggest it didnt get lost or lose control or anything it just imploded.
I understand why it’s better to air on the side of optimism and send out search teams because you never know and being trapped under water slowly running out of air is a horrible way to go. It’s been a bit morbid to hear the news though day by day of people searching as more and more news comes out explaining why the sub was a death trap and how much warning was given to the company leading to this.
I do hope that the company and people behind this are held fully liable by the law. People are dead because some dipshits decided they’d try and make some cash disrupting the sub industry.
air on the side of optimism
err on the side of optimism
Water on the side of optimum
Now we just need fire and earth optimism.
Well, the CEO of the company, who was the one really pushing hard on the “regulations stifle innovation” mantra, is among the dead. So he ended up paying more than the law would have made him.
I’ll give him this, there are a lot of CEOs that skimp out and keep death traps in operation despite the risk. But most of those CEOs would be smart enough to avoid those death traps and pay other people far too little to take the risk for them.
At least this man believed in his death trap enough to step inside and die in it instead of giving legal-approved platitudes from his summer mansion.
For anyone looking for more details, there aren’t any as of now, but USCG is holding a press briefing today at 3 PM ET. Obviously we won’t know for sure until more info comes out, but that suggests to me that they have good reason to believe it’s the Titan.
Next year: billionaires in sub go to visit ocean floor wreckage of billionaires in sub who were visiting ocean wreckage of rich people ship on ocean floor
