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  • YeonturaEnglish
    9•2 years ago

    I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic. In your race to [the] Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: ‘She is unsinkable’.

    -Rob McCallum, leading deep sea exploration specialist, in an email to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

      • @ExploringLiteratureEnglish
        9•2 years ago

        I only feel bad for the only teenager on the expedition, but this is coming from the fact that they were too young to go. The second article below makes me feel sadder as there was way more loss of life, but oddly enough, not much mention of it on official media channels, at least to my knowledge.

        For the OceanGate casualty that was young, allegedly, according to a relative of the teenager who perished, the boy was, in her words, terrified and wasn’t up for it. Saying he only did it because it was father’s day.

        Quite terrifying to imagine the last moments of this young boy, or several hundred of the refugees from the news article below. What were they feeling/thinking as they were staring down at their final moments of existence?

        Also, it should be noted that another tragedy also happened just this week around the same time the OceanGate thing was happening. It’s been heavily debated online why the OceanGate disaster had more airtime as opposed to this massive loss of life (500 dead, few hundred missing) just because those who died (on OceanGate) were richer.

        I am only just starting to read up on the immigrant tragedy, and it’s a total shitstorm to say the least.

        EDIT: Clarity. Added figures.

        • @RevalvierEnglish
          7•2 years ago

          For them, based on the report, it is implosion that killed them instantly. So for them, it is like “ooh, the ocean is so dark down here…” then bam! No more consciousness since they are compressed within 0.03 seconds, surely crushing their brains and bodies including that teenager, instantly and turning them into ocean mush for the bottom dwellers to feed. They did ont even feel being flash fried by the heat generated by the implosion, which is briefly as hot as the surface of the sun, which will surely kill any living thing not miles away from that sub.

          But of course, dead men and boys don’t tell no tales, so we cannot be certain. The scenario above is a rough estimate based on empirical data on the materials of the sub, the depth they are in upon implosion and the simulations of scientists on that situation.

          • @ExploringLiteratureEnglish
            4•2 years ago

            Man, it’s like choosing the least worst way to die. If it was that quick, then that is way better than the alternative. Any death that is quick and painless is better than the slow, painful alternative. One can only hope that sans a peaceful death, one kicks the bucket quickly knocks on wood.

            EDIT: Deleted above comment as double-posted. Something’s wrong with Lemmy on my end. Anyone else encounter the same?

        • @[email protected]English
          6•2 years ago

          Yeah I’ve seen that news report on the hundreds of refugees that were left to die at sea. But of course the billionaire gets the airtime, a stupid one at that.

      • @cottonmonEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        Nope, guy was a dumbass. I read that he fired everyone that was concerned about the safety.

    • @ExploringLiteratureEnglish
      7•2 years ago

      “I think it was General MacArthur who said: ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break,’” Rush said, smiling.

      Article went on quoting him saying the following (Emphasis mine):

      The CEO acknowledged that he’d “broken some rules” with the Titan’s manufacturing but was confident that his design was sound.

      “I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. Carbon fiber and titanium? There’s a rule you don’t do that,” he told alanxelmundo. “Well, I did.”

      He’s remembered now all right, but for all the wrong reasons.

      EDIT: Quote source