Techbros disrupt five people into what is overwhelmingly likely a horrifying death
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The Titanic tourism apparent disaster is a particularly grisly illustration of the “ignore regulations and worry about the results later” so prevalent in American business:
Years before OceanGate’s submersible craft went missing in the Atlantic Ocean with five people onboard, the company faced several warnings as it prepared for its hallmark mission of taking wealthy passengers to tour the Titanic’s wreckage.
It was January 2018, and the company’s engineering team was about to hand over the craft — named Titan — to a new crew who would be responsible for ensuring the safety of its future passengers. But experts inside and outside the company were beginning to sound alarms.
OceanGate’s director of marine operations, David Lochridge, started working on a report around that time, according to court documents, ultimately producing a scathing document in which he said the craft needed more testing and stressed “the potential dangers to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths.”
Two months later, OceanGate faced similarly dire calls from more than three dozen people — industry leaders, deep-sea explorers and oceanographers — who warned in a letter to its chief executive, Stockton Rush, that the company’s “experimental” approach and its decision to forgo a traditional assessment could lead to potentially “catastrophic” problems with the Titanic mission.
Everyone has their own risk tolerance, I guess, but seeing pictures/video of that thing the thought of being underwater at any depth in it for 30 seconds was viscerally terrifying to me.
The more we learn about #OceanGate, it seems this is a classic case of overconfidence and arrogance in a vessel’s believed infallibility.
And it was built to explore the wreckage of the Titanic.
You can’t ignore the tragic irony. https://t.co/QLvUiPEBk2— Brady Bauman 👍 (@Brady2Day) June 21, 2023