Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Radola Gajda]

Don't be fooled . This mission was not about Titanic. Rush was looking for entrance to Hyperborea. But unfortunately his sub was crushed by Hyperbaria , before he could find it.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

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• The Department of Transport Should fuck canada's citizens further
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• The Department of Transport Should fuck canada's citizens further
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• The Department of Transport: Since one dipshit did something incredibly stupid that no rational human being would do we should ensure that we can fuck canada's citizens further

Well at least they got that part figured out.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

If submersible operators do not have detailed emergency response plans to manage all possible emergency scenarios, including readily available and proven rescue resources, the lives of those involved in the submersible’s operations are at risk.

That line in the report grates on me.

With all respect to the people who lost their lives, and in no way excusing Oceangate, who were arrogant and foolish... The sum total of a "detailed emergency response plan" to "catastrophic hull failure at several thousand meters down" is "arrange for grief counseling for the families". There is no possible recovery from that.

 

[Hopkinsville Goblin]

Man, even the Walmart heirs give more of a fuck about people than this guy did.

Stockton Rush should have had his engineers sing and dance before they got to working on the carbon fiber.

It's pretty telling to me that they had battery and control problems to the point where they rammed into the bow of the Titanic and then three days later they went down to the Titanic again. Hopefully Gaben is more careful with his engineers, maybe he's been waiting for the Steam controller to be perfected before buying his latest billion dollar yacht for deep sea research.

 

[crowabunga]

Stockton brought a U.S. tech startup mindset to an engineering problem with zero tolerance for the kind of bullshit being in the "U.S. tech startup" mindset entails and got liquified for it

Good

 

[Mr.Bucket]

If Microsoft made submersibles....

At least it would have used a better controller.

 

[KebabShopSauce]

Damn, I've been obsessed with this since the incident, can't believe I never checked for a thread here. Time to do some catching up!

 

[goh]

you misread the old guy's reaction
the instant he heard the bang he locked eyes with white shirt because they both knew shit was completely fucked, they simply didn't have the heart to tell the wife
white shirt immediately walks out to compose himself and relay the news to the rest of the crew, then dark shirt walks in and starts documenting the circumstances of the accident
i mean what was he supposed to do, lay it on her like "sorry babe, your husband just got smushed into jello"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they received a text shortly after the bang, which "appeared to put [Wendy] Rush at ease again, as she picked up a walkie-talkie and repeated the message." 2 minutes later, Gary Foss says we lost tracking (2:25):

They then staged a multi-day search and rescue operation under the premise that the Titan was still active and just got lost. I think it's far more likely that they assumed that they lost their acoustic signal after the bang, which happened constantly.

You werent there, you dont know these people, stop being judgemental about strangers reactions to situations that have nothing to do with you, you fucking bitch.

You're on Kiwifarms.

 

[Alabaster Disaster]

I appreciate this incident adding the term "chunky salsa" to our vernacular on this site

I recently read that the best they could do for recovery was giving the families boxes of sand that contained the correct DNA, and then there was a separate, bigger pile of sand that was kind of a slurry of everyone and the families were free to take some of that if they wanted.

 

[Lightning]

You'd think nominative determinism is just a cheap gag they do in fiction, but I'm surprised anyone wanted to climb into a creaky submarine with a guy named "Stockton Rush". Sleazy McScumbag was already taken?

 

[Hopkinsville Goblin]

I recently read that the best they could do for recovery was giving the families boxes of sand that contained the correct DNA, and then there was a separate, bigger pile of sand that was kind of a slurry of everyone and the families were free to take some of that if they wanted.

Please find a source, this is hilarious and sad at the same time. I feel bad for the teenager but the others, not really.

 

[JustSomeDong]

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Don't be fooled . This mission was not about Titanic. Rush was looking for entrance to Hyperborea. But unfortunately his sub was crushed by Hyperbaria , before he could find it.

Thanks, Stud! Very informative!


.....hey now, wait just a cotton pickin minute!!! YOU ARENT @StudMccool!!1! Sneaky devil!

 

[Goofy Logic]

To this day, I am still amazed that this guy (the CEO) decided to use his own death trap contraption. Like even if you are completely ignorant, you must subconsciously know that you are cutting corners and that what you made is dangerous. Usually CEOs send employees to test their own death traps.

Even if I know nothing of submarines, I would never touch anything labeled as "experimental". Is this what happens when you are surrounded by yes men? You immediately disregard any possibility of recieving a darwin award yourself?

Stockton genuinely believed that marine safety regulations were solely intended to crush innovation and milk businesses of money, and had said so in several interviews.

Because he had successful dives in hobby grade submersibles with no engineering input, he got high from his own supply and is why he retaliated so viciously against people who told him he was building a death trap.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

That line in the report grates on me.

With all respect to the people who lost their lives, and in no way excusing Oceangate, who were arrogant and foolish... The sum total of a "detailed emergency response plan" to "catastrophic hull failure at several thousand meters down" is "arrange for grief counseling for the families". There is no possible recovery from that.

I think they are talking about the whole operation, not just those on the sub. The mother ship that was monitoring the sub didn't really react when they lost contact and only alerted coast guard HOURS after they were supposed to resurface. Hypothetically, if the sub lost power but was structurally sound underwater, everybody on board would have been just as fuck if they needed to wait 8 hours before the coastguard is even notified, who knows how long till they are located and actually rescued. The support crew legit had no emergency plans or any rescue equipment.

 

[goh]

Please find a source, this is hilarious and sad at the same time. I feel bad for the teenager but the others, not really.

Found it earlier.

 

[Alabaster Disaster]

Please find a source, this is hilarious and sad at the same time. I feel bad for the teenager but the others, not really.

Link / Archive

"Well, when I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left. They came in two small boxes, like shoeboxes."

The remains, recovered from the seabed, were meticulously separated and DNA tested by the US Coast Guard in order to confirm their identities.

She added: "There wasn’t much they could find. They have a big pile they can’t separate, all mixed DNA, and they asked if I wanted some of that, too.


"But I said no, just what you know is Suleman and Shahzada."

 

[Drain Todger]

Implosion:

• Impossible to use carbon fiber hull to be defect-less and some of the processes to manufacture the cylinder hull led to defects.
  • Unconventional methods were used by people lacking knowledge of the processes involved.
• No pressure load or repeat failure tests with full-scale models were done by Titan.
  • Minimum testing of 2 1/3 scale models done showed failure at 3000m and 3300m with both models failing due to pressure.
• Lack of reports on manufacturing including grinding down of carbon fiber layers which reduces strength and could have put in defects.
• Conclusion
  • "During the design, construction, and testing of the Titan, operational decisions were influenced disproportionately by measurable outcomes such as cost savings related to testing and validation of the submersible’s design. Considerations that were less tangible, such as how safety was being compromised to achieve those savings, tended to be undervalued or overlooked."

I had Nano Banana 2 do a little mockup of an exciting little cross-promotional product that I think Logitech might like, the G F710 "Titan Edition".



But wait, that's not all, it comes with RC transmitter style slip-on stick height risers decked out in fancy carbon fiber, in memory of the legendary modded F710 that sent five men to Davy Jones' locker!

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

On the other hand, every day we let millions of passengers fly on planes with hydraulic systems that have fluid constantly running all over the aircraft at similar pressures in order to power the landing gear, control surfaces etc. It can be made exceedingly safe if you're not a reckless moron about it.

Just…just let other people think for you

 

[monk]

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I'm surprised that they even bothered. Just call it a total loss at that point. Your husband or family member decided to go to the bottom of the ocean in an experimantal sub and got liquified in the process, why bother even having his remains, he's gone to feed the fishes.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

OceanGate is what happens when a coddled scion of a family that has been so rich for so long that they have absolutely no clue how reality works decides to make a name for himself in history books by defying the laws of physics and the reality of ocean pressure to sell trips to the Titanic for cheap bc he cut every possible corner on making the submarine used for dives. But yeah, it's possible that real actual non-retarded scientists might be able to adapt carbon fiber hulls to ROVs or "remote operated vehicles" which are those robots that go places humans can't to photograph shipwrecks and weird shit like that whale boneyard using what they've learned from this shitstorm.

The Titan: BANG

Stockton: "Let's dive again and see what happens."

Words to adequately convey how retarded this man was elude me.

The biggest tragedy here is that the final implosion was likely so instantaneous that he never had even a moment to reflect on how his hubris got them all killed.

Stockton genuinely believed that marine safety regulations were solely intended to crush innovation and milk businesses of money, and had said so in several interviews.

Because he had successful dives in hobby grade submersibles with no engineering input, he got high from his own supply and is why he retaliated so viciously against people who told him he was building a death trap.

Stockton Rush really was boomerism personified. If only he'd looked the laws of physics in the eye and given them a firm handshake.