"To shreds, you say." : technology

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the guy was an experienced diver who went down to the james cameron ship 37 times and still went inside that death trap

amazing

[-] Lookorex@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

From the article, it seems like he was unaware of how shit the submersible actually was.

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Literally anyone looking at the submarine could know how shit it was

Like the thing straight up looked incredibly janky. Thin walls and an interior that consisted of a gym mat and a plastic Logitech controller that I could hear the plastic creaking on just through photos of it

It didn't take an engineer to look at it and conclude it was fucked

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

It's gotta be easy to prove in court that the guy was experienced enough to know better. But I might be wrong.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

sicko-orca

[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Im pretty sure the family of the guy that was hired to pilot the thing didn't design and build a death tube of brittle carbon fiber

[-] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

the guy that was hired to pilot

He's alive, he was fired before the accident because he had safety concerns and his boss took over as the pilot.

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-oceangate-pilot-worried-stockton-rush-people-killed-ego-email-2023-7

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

"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," Rush said in a 2021 interview with Mexican YouTuber Alan Estrada. "Well, I did."

An expert previously told Insider that photos of the Titan sub wreckage suggest that the most likely explanation for the vessel's implosion was that the carbon-fiber hull collapsed under the immense pressure of the ocean.

chefs-kiss

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

"I'm rich that makes me smarter and better than a professional!"

dies

Rather poetic, really.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

well idk what the French submersible pilot was doing onboard then but i'm still pretty sure it wasn't him or his family designing and cutting corners on the thing

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago

From my broke ass Marxist dialectical analysis perspective I both feel sorry for them because submarines are awesome and who wouldn't want to go in one but at the same time for fucks sake nobody should have that much money it's like a disease ya y'all need treatment

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Oh no!

anyway

[-] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

get that bag

[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Le Mao ;)