New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely played a role in the submersible’s tragic demise.
the screen was mounted by screws into the carbon fiber. fuckin’ what!?
The interesting thing is he really seemed to believe he knows better than all the experts.
There are reasons why ships and planes are all highly regulated. Its called physics.
It’s almost as if someone built a giant ship they were incapable of operating
Expired CF is the least of the problems with this project. The overall design was fundamentally compromised.
I just wish he didn’t bring others with him with his hubris. The more info that comes out about this guy, the worse and sadder it gets
How did this man find a lawyer to represent him? What a nightmare client he would be. Basically throwing around liability grenades like it’s nothing.
The lawyer just writes up the disclaimer you sign.
He’s not getting involved in your 500 atmospheres of pressure.
Yeah but your life would be hell if anything went wrong because the man really makes himself look negligent by bragging about the corners he cut.
Hah! Talk about getting what you pay for. This is why you don’t cut corners on parts that can kill you if they malfunction.
Lol fiberglass
This is why submarines are built out of steel.
This “engineer” failed at math class.
I am saddened as I read to think about the fact this could’ve been avoided.
It should have been avoided. Facts tell us very clearly it could not have been: there has been zero regulatory appetite for this activity, in the U.S. or elsewhere. And adventure-seekers will amuse themselves even at the expense of other’s lives. Amoral profiteers abound. Caveat Emptor.
If the guy weren’t dead he’d be sued to death.
I know this entire sub was a shitshow, but… It had an interior wall. Stuff was mounted to that, not directly into the outer hull.
Do you have a source for that? I was trying to figure out if that was the case but couldn’t get evidence
Googling for “titan sub construction” and you can see pictures of it under construction, where the interior is clearly significantly smaller than the exterior, and there’s visible open space past an inner shell.
Yes, exactly. The interior was insulated and whatnot. It had structural issues but this wasnt one of them
*Late / recently deceased CEO
It’s mind-bending how that shitshow keeps getting worse and worse and weirder and weirder, you think it can’t get worse then “But wait! There’s more!”
That guy was a backyard inventor and charlatan, like those 19th century backyard aircraft inventors. It’s one thing to take yourself out of the gene pool through your own recklessness, it’s another to take others with you.
Rush bypassed over a hundred years of engineering lessons learned the hard way with the rationale it stifles innovation. He even fired and sued one of his own employees for calling him out on it. The sub had zero certifications and then he lied to customers about it saying his designs were approved by NASA and Boeing who never even heard of the guy.
Aside from the lack of safety engineering and lack of proper fail-safes in his design, there’s a reason engineers don’t use carbon fiber composites in subs. They have a tendency to delaminate. When used in aircraft, composites have to be examined and certified at a regular service interval with special inspection equipment.
I think that sub was an accident waiting to happen from day one. The hull probably failed due to inspection negligence and a failure to detect delamination. That’s even if the hull could have been rated properly for 4km. If it wasn’t the hull, it would been one of the other jury-rigged systems.
I can’t believe people smart enough to acquire the wealth for that excursion weren’t smart enough to check out the qualifications of the company hosting it. I think it was plainly obvious just looking at the sub yourself. A navigation system that consists of a consumer laptop PC and Logitech gaming controller should have been a dead giveaway.
I can’t believe people smart enough to acquire the wealth for that excursion
You do not need to be smart to acquire wealth.
Of the people in the sub, I am confident that 4/5 of them were born into wealth, and I can’t really find any information on the other one.
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The Dawoods (father and son) were only wealthy because their father/grandfather was wealthy.
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Stockton Rush was also born into wealth, his family made their money from oil and shipping.
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Can’t find a lot of information about Hamish Harding, but he was flying aeroplanes at 13 and went to a prestigious private school called The King’s School, so it’s safe to say he was also born into considerable wealth.
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