I can't be the only one fascinated by this Titan sub ordeal

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It's no different than Mt Everest. Has there ever been a year without multiple people dead whilst climbing that thing, and it ending up in the news? And yet every year...all those rich folk line up to march up, march down and post all about it on instagram :)
 
They pulled up pieces of the Titan today. Looking for remains to give the families. There are remains. Wanna know what happens to a human body that is 95% water under 30k pounds of water pressure? It disappears faster than a Big Mac on Trump’s plate.
AYFKM!!!!
Picture of the scientific equipment they using to collect remains….
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*AYFKM - Are You Farkin Kidding Me

This is stupider, is that a word, than when the Navy spent a few million to find John Kennedy Junior body so the family could cremate him and dump his ashes in THE EXACT SAME SPOT in the ocean!!!!
Goddamut but people really are farkin stupid. How did this species survive?
 
El Capitan said:
That sub got pancaked a long time ago. They flooded the news cycle to dilute the Hunter Biden and Brandon bribery scandal.
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Exactly
 
From an Insider article: "The former director added that some of OceanGate's engineers were teenagers when they worked for the company, while others were in their early twenties, the New Yorker reported. Some of the engineers were also paid $15 per hour at one point, the former director told Taub."
How can one be an engineer and still be in his teens? Even if he finished high school at 17, an engineering degree takes 4 years, making him 21. And $15/hr labor rate? Stockton Rush cut corners everywhere within his company.
 
James Cameron spent $12m of his own money to build a submersible to dive Challenger Deep. Victor Vescovo probably spent $15-20m of his own money to build his submersible that is rated to dive the entire planet. Both were built by Triton submersibles out of Florida and Cameron is part owner of Triton.

Ocean Gate took another path. They had six successful Titanic dives before it went boom. In retrospect, both Cameron and Vescovo designed subs to dive 6 miles deep and the Titanic is at 2 miles.

Ocean Gate by their math spent about $1.5 to 2 million to build their submersible and they proudly told customers that it was not certified by anyone to carry passengers. Anyone who has worked with carbon fiber would not put it into a high pressure environment. The bolt rings were glued on the end of the carbon fiber tube and then the titanium end caps were bolted into place.....sealing passengers into the tube.

The reason deep diving submersibles are round is to distribute pressure forces. Ocean Gate used a tube design which was doomed from an engineering perspective. Without bulkheads to support the tube.....pressure would build on the middle of the tube to the point the end caps blew off. Pictures show the titanium end caps with their bolt rings still in place.

All this would have been fine if Ocean Gate was just risking their lives. But when you have paying customers......everything changes.
 
If we want to take paying passengers on our boats the licenses, certifications, CG inspections we have to go thru are enormous. Im sure there are people on here who can expound. By law, a friend who gives gas money is a paying passenger and you better have a Captain’s license and CG certification.
So how did these morons get away with charging a 1/4 mil per passenger on a completely uninspected boat?
And yes a submarine is a ‘boat’ ask any Naval Submariner.
 
Pirate Lady said:
If we want to take paying passengers on our boats the licenses, certifications, CG inspections we have to go thru are enormous. Im sure there are people on here who can expound. By law, a friend who gives gas money is a paying passenger and you better have a Captain’s license and CG certification.
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That is a common misconception.

Who needs a Captain’s license? Anyone carrying passengers-for-hire on federal waters. If you are receiving direct or indirect compensation from your passengers you are required to hold a Captain’s license. Voluntary compensation, such as splitting fuel costs with friends, does not constitute a passenger-for-hire.

Voluntarily sharing in voyage expenses does not make someone a passenger-for-hire as it is voluntary and not a requirement for being on the boat.

When determining whether or not a license is needed, it is useful to ask, “Am I being compensated for carrying this passenger” and “Am I only carrying this person because I’m being compensated?” If the answer to both of these questions is “yes” then a license is required.
 
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