New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely played a role in the submersible’s tragic demise.
He learned nothing, he is dead. Hopefully others will learn from that.
“Safety regulations are written in blood”
That’s putting it harshly.
Would be interesting so see a statistic on deep water sub excursions versus fatalities. Probably somewhere between astronauts and WWII bomber crews.
There is little regulation for deep sea subs since they operate in international waters out of jurisdiction. You can pretty much do whatever the hell you want out there. If someone manufactures within jurisdiction, regulations may apply. Though they would be easy to circumvent.
Definitely good safety and engineering practice is written in blood, but regulations are not always enforceable.
I’m not able to find the article due to these news flooding all search engines, but read that the last death in this type of deep water exploration was around 60 years ago.
AFAIK most DSVs are certified, the fact that OceanGate did their thing to avoid any kind of oversight was a cause of concern for other submersible producers. With an impeccable safety record for half a decade and tech finally allowing for deep sea tourism, they didn’t want some reckless company destroying the reputation of deep water tourism. Like by killing five people in an experimental craft. They even wrote an open letter warning about OceanGates disregard for safety.
Seems like this was entirely preventable by following established industry norms and not firing and suing the whistleblowers warning about the dangers.
Protip: you can set dates on a Google search to avoid recent news when trying to look up historical information.
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Can you set times to ignore new articles? I thought you can only ignore old articles.
You can do a custom date range including an end date.
Huh, you are right. Never knew this. Thanks! That’s gonna be useful.
Some record breakers don’t bother but those are always manned by one person as a private venture and still follow those rules as guidelines. They just don’t bother with the formality. The challenger deep wasn’t for example. No one balks at that because the people involved knew what they were doing and used pretty sound and tested engineering.