Tour company OceanGate Expeditions said it believes the five passengers on board the missing Titanic-bound submersible have died. Follow here for live updates.
They operated in international waters, so no regulation applies really. This is exactly what the less government people want - you choose of your own free will to contract with this company knowing the risks. I imagine it’s similar to lots of dangerous recreation out there like the sub orbital flights. That said, I would have noped out of it based on the one article describeing the legal processes and forms you had to sign.
you choose of your own free will to contract with this company knowing the risks.
But that’s just the problem with free market/small government, isn’t it? You can’t know the risks because there is no oversight to prove people aren’t cutting corners and selling bullshit.
As long as it is more profitable for people to deceive and cut corners, they’re gonna do it.
They operate in international waters but the company is based in the US and I’m sure the trip was contracted in the US as well. I’m no lawyer but I imagine that might give the government some leverage.
Sure, it’s sad for the families, but I find that my empathy is better off being spent elsewhere.
Even if some employee got caught in this CEO’s whims, that employee already sold his life away upon embarking on a sub made by a company whose head thinks “safety just is pure waste.”
What’s a waste is this CEO not surviving to regret his very words.
It’s actually astounding that this company seemingly gave zero fucks and was just allowed to go through with this. Like, I assume there was some permitting/process that needed to be obtained to go dive to the Titanic. I have to write overblown safety memos at work when just dealing with simple pressurized inert gas cylinders. How did this happen? Lol I wouldn’t even use a logitech wireless controller to game on my PC.
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They operated in international waters, so no regulation applies really. This is exactly what the less government people want - you choose of your own free will to contract with this company knowing the risks. I imagine it’s similar to lots of dangerous recreation out there like the sub orbital flights. That said, I would have noped out of it based on the one article describeing the legal processes and forms you had to sign.
But that’s just the problem with free market/small government, isn’t it? You can’t know the risks because there is no oversight to prove people aren’t cutting corners and selling bullshit.
As long as it is more profitable for people to deceive and cut corners, they’re gonna do it.
I should be free to experience as much atmospheric pressure as I want!!
You might get on with the JBS Haldane: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane's_decompression_model
They operate in international waters but the company is based in the US and I’m sure the trip was contracted in the US as well. I’m no lawyer but I imagine that might give the government some leverage.
So, they made their
seabed and now lie on it?It’s hard to find empathy for those guys.
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The CEO was the pilot, so he reaped what he sowed.
Sure, it’s sad for the families, but I find that my empathy is better off being spent elsewhere.
Even if some employee got caught in this CEO’s whims, that employee already sold his life away upon embarking on a sub made by a company whose head thinks “safety just is pure waste.”
What’s a waste is this CEO not surviving to regret his very words.
Now they get to organize dives to view the wreckage of the Titan. Twice the business!
It will probably go out of business declaring bankruptcy, to avoid paying any indemnification or fines for the use of emergency resources.
It’s actually astounding that this company seemingly gave zero fucks and was just allowed to go through with this. Like, I assume there was some permitting/process that needed to be obtained to go dive to the Titanic. I have to write overblown safety memos at work when just dealing with simple pressurized inert gas cylinders. How did this happen? Lol I wouldn’t even use a logitech wireless controller to game on my PC.
The wreckage is way out in international waters. I don’t think there are any laws or legal requirements that are mandatory.
Libertarianism happened, in conjunction with a few signed waivers.