"To shreds, you say." : technology

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

sicko-orca

[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

dies

Rather poetic, really.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Oh no!

anyway

[-] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

get that bag

[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Le Mao ;)