Amph A Strongly Worded Letter to the White Star Line About All This: All Things TITANIC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66045554 - first debris from the Titan has been brought up.

 

Yep and it's titanium not carbon fiber so it didn't completely implode....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66049789 - Presumed human remains found in the Titan wreckage. (I'd be surprised if they could identify who it is though.)

 

Yeah, that's basically what I was thinking when I heard about the implosion. I don't know if things like a wedding ring would survive intact (I think they have found artifacts like that from Titanic) but organic matter is probably goo.

 

They’re pretty vague in that article, maybe they found goo.

 

@Bacon164 bet you didn't expect this to reach 27 pages.

 

The goo was heard complaining to the Coast Guard, "You're stifling innovation!"

 

Shouldn't it be in the deep sea tourism industry's interest not to let this happen? You don't want one company cheating by cutting corners on safety, and it also scares away customers if and when disaster strikes.

 

Yes, many people in the industry, including at least one of his own employees, told Stockton Rush that what he was doing is dangerous and the consequences could harm them too. He didn't have to listen to them.

 

Who gets to regulate a craft operating in international waters out of no home port? Nobody!

 

Well, one of the things we found out was that basically every person/organization with a deep ocean submersible had at some point told this guy he was going to kill somebody and it was going to make all of them look bad. The criticism was rejected because everyone else was just trying to stifle innovation or something.

Also worth noting that the end game wasn’t exploration or even billionaire disaster tourism. It was mostly about attempting to sell oil companies that their cheap submersibles were just reliable enough to invest in.

 

... on wings of pastrami goo.

 

“What is the ocean going to do, crush me?”

 

It's funny because my understanding is that for an instant, the effects of the pressure made the occupants literally hotter than the sun.

 

You’re all being very hard on the CEO.

he was a rich guy named Stockton, definitely wore sweaters around his shoulders, told lame jokes followed by a forced “uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh”. And did a lot of business on the golf course.
He essentially had no chance. If a newborn crack baby left on a doorstep in the middle of winter is on the far left of the “likelihood of survival” bell curve, Stocky was on the far right. (He was far right, uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh)

 

James Cameron has made 30 dives to Titanic and one to Challenger Deep, in real vessels.

I don't like the guy, but in this area, he is indeed an expert.

 

I can understand callous and maybe crazy, but he is not an idiot.

 

Jack!


His frozen remains got sucked inside with the implosion!

Titanic 2 writes itself!

 

OceanGate's former finance director said she quit when Stockton Rush asked her to be the Titanic submersible's chief pilot after firing the original one for raising safety issues: report

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oceangates-former-finance-director-said-051737973.html

"It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting," she told the New Yorker.

She said she "did not trust" Rush because Lochridge was no longer working at OceanGate and quit her job as soon as she found a new role elsewhere, Taub reported.

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.​