Elbow beards
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Well, he paid the price. what a knob
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The Titanic
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hilts
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I feel for him to be fair.
Great parenting all round
Dubai Blue
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Yep, just a shame he took others with him.Well, he paid the price. what a knob
By the way, this was his attitude to going through the same regulatory approvals process that every single other submersible company goes through:
In 2019, OceanGate said that getting the sub 'classified' - or certified as safe - would be too lengthy a process.
Classification involves recruiting an independent organisation to ensure vessels like ships and submersibles meet industry-wide technical standards. It is a crucial way of ensuring a vessel is fit to operate.
They said it would not 'ensure that operators adhere to proper operating procedures and decision-making processes – two areas that are much more important for mitigating risks at sea'.
The blog post said: 'While classing agencies are willing to pursue the certification of new and innovative designs and ideas, they often have a multi-year approval cycle due to a lack of pre-existing standards.
'Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation.'
You could say the same for free climbers ( those that go up very high mountains without a rope) I saw a great documentary about a Canadian free climber, he did it faster, higher and better than anybody but you knew what the end of the documentary was going to be.I can't for the life of me understand why you would ignore safety advice when undertaking something so dangerous. What the fuck did they think would happen?
If we didn't do 'stuff' there would be just a few of us wandering around a village in Africa too afraid to leave.
Last week, more 500 people fleeing war and famine drowned when their vessel capsized off the coast of Greece. I hardly saw it mentioned. This week, in just two days, I counted 18 headline stories in just one paper about the submarine incident. Both are tragedies, but we value some lives differently than others, clearly.
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Uncle Wally One Ball
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Charlatan. What a reckless, dangerous blokeHubris alert!
'I'd like to be remembered as an innovator,' said CEO Stockton Rush. 'I think it was General (Douglas) MacArthur who said: "You're remembered for the rules you break." And you know, I've broken some rules to make this.
'I think I broke them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fibre and titanium, there's a rule you don't do that – well I did.
'There's picking the rules that you break that are the rules that will add value to others and add value to society, and that really to me is about innovation.'
Onholiday(somemightsay)
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Interesting isn't it - this has got X-Files written all over it..........Who’s been making the tapping sounds then?
metalblue
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Last week, more 500 people fleeing war and famine drowned when their vessel capsized off the coast of Greece. I hardly saw it mentioned. This week, in just two days, I counted 18 headline stories in just one paper about the submarine incident. Clearly, both are tragedies, but we value some lives differently than others, clearly.
This is a very fair observation
Lavinda Past
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Great parenting all round
And now being hailed as 'a legend' and 'adventurer' by friends and family...
We live in a fucked up world.
mosssideblue
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This is a very fair observation
Titanic tragedy gripped the world (as did the stuck miners and children) because of hope and humans rallying to overcome tremendous odds to save lives in finite timeframes
This voyage was a cluster fuck because safety hadn't been paramount in the design, and I expect regulations will now change as a result.
Whether pursuing adventure or escaping a place of hostility looking for a better life, any lost life is a tragedy and I don't buy into some lives are more valuable than others.