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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing that struck me is he maybe favored, and maybe only had young inexperienced people working on the project. This can only mean that older people would not work with him, or he did not want people that actually know something asking hard questions. The same would be true for not having a good non-destructive testing campaign and a destructive one too. If true this is a huge organizational issue. He may have been short of money too, so he presumably cut corners for this reason as well. Exactly where was the money coming from for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Translation: He cannot act as a visionary genious when there are qualified people around that know something and ask hard questions.

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

The OceanGate CEO ... once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren’t “inspirational.”

Stockton Rush, 61, added that such expertise was unnecessary because “anybody can drive the sub” with a $30 video game controller.

Each thing that comes out about this guy makes him look a little worse.