Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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Hearing the carbon cracking sounds while the sub is in the deep water. Now ya know what was happening.

Go deeper, more cracks. wow.

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A writer who said he was set to travel on the doomed Titan submersible said OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him that for the vessel's hull, the company used cut-price Boeing carbon fiber that was past its airplane shelf life

Rush told Weissmann that "he had gotten the carbon fiber used to make the Titan at a big discount from Boeing because it was past its shelf life for use in airplanes," Weissmann wrote.

In his recollection, he asked Rush whether that was a problem, but he said he was told that the shelf-life dates "were set far before they had to be."

Reflecting on the question of the source of the carbon fiber, Weissmann wrote: "It is a conversation I have thought about a great deal over the past week."

So, much like food date, It's not bad, it just does not taste (work) as well /s

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Being told that safety is important is a serious insult. Well, there's your problem.

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mrsuaveoi3

Life saving pro tip: Never buy a product from a company whose motto is regulation hampers innovation.

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The water pressure at 12,500 feet (3,800 meters) below the surface at the site of the Titanic wreck is roughly 400 atmospheres or 6,000 pounds per square inch.

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He has some interesting info

The possibility that the occupants heard the start of carbon fibers delaminating before the implosion.

Saying the weights were dropped. Basically amounts to an emergency blow.

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Dating with issues and insecurities, is like taking a poorly made submersible into the depths of the human experience.

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Either the agony of defeat or the thrill of victory. Middle ground takes quite a while to develop.

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Rush asked her about becoming the submersible's head pilot after firing David Lochridge, the submarine pilot originally billed for the role, she told Taub.

Lochridge was initially sued by OceanGate in 2018, but he countersued the organization and alleged that he was fired after raising key concerns about the Titan's hull.

Soon after Lochridge was fired, Rush asked the finance director to fill in for the pilot, she told Taub.

"It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting," she told the New Yorker.

She said she "did not trust" Rush because Lochridge was no longer working at OceanGate and quit her job as soon as she found a new role elsewhere, Taub reported.

The former director added that some of OceanGate's engineers were teenagers when they worked for the company, while others were in their early twenties, the New Yorker reported. Some of the engineers were also paid $15 per hour at one point, the former director told Taub.

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Dunning Kruger invites Darwin for a visit.

"Mr Dunning calling. I would like to speak with Mr Darwin"
"Mr Darwin is expecting your call. I will connect you."

Engineers, Yeah, just like paying passengers were Mission Specialists to avoid legal issues.

Paying customers on board the Titan submersible were not referred to as passengers as part of a bid to avoid severe legal repercussions if anyone died, a former consultant to OceanGate claimed in an interview with The New Yorker.