Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

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Supposedly there is oxygen for 4 days, so it it is in tact and they can get it to the surface by early Thursday, maybe.

But more likely there was a structural failure and they are all dead, crushed by the extreme depth.

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The sudden lose of communication to me screams catastrophic structural failure…

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In which case, there wouldn’t even be time to scream…

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It wasn’t really sudden. Best they had was text messages that were occurring at a 15 minute interval. They stopped 1:45 into the dive.

They waited until 30 minutes after they were supposed to be back to report it missing (which I think is standard)

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They had two communication systems. They had the text messaging and an automated “ping” that went every 15 minutes. Both stopped suddenly at 1:45.

Quote from apnews

“There are only two things that could mean. Either they lost all power or the ship developed a hull breach and it imploded instantly.”

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