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Titan sub: crew have died after catastrophic loss of pressure chamber, US Coast Guard confirms (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the problem here is that there's willful recklessness buried in the risk taking here. It's like running a shady skydiving operation and being like "yeah, the professionals are full of it and just want my money, you don't really have to repack the chutes carefully, just stuff that shit in there, it'll be fine. Trust me bro, it's worked for me, like, five times."

There were so many obvious and stupid risks this guy took. There were multiple near misses that should have raised alarm bells, as well as expert whistleblowers who were dismissed. It's frankly a wonder it took this long to fail, and a shame this moron took other people out with him because he was able to just hand wave it all as "risk taking".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do tend to agree actually..

With Everest, there is a huge amount of risk management. Same with Parachuting.

With this maybe slightly less. That being said, if I found out the CEO was going to be piloting it, I'd assume it's safe. However, then again, there was the Rob Hall and Everest Incident too (but I feel like that was less preventable on Rob's side)