The CEO of the company whose Titanic-seeking submarine has been missing for nearly two days once said safety was a “pure waste.”
I work as a researcher in the university lab OceanGate used to test their vessels. My colleague told me that they would have tests run 7 times resulting in 6 failures and 1 success. OceanGate engineers (maybe their leadership?) would chalk that up as a success and keep going. My colleague says no one in the building would ever get into anything these “morons” built.
I assume there’s a fair bit of hyperbole in this, but I think it generally is matching what we’re seeing. Oh, also the general consensus here is that their hull caved in and they’ve been dead for a while.
I highly doubt they will ever find the sub, its too small and could be literally anywhere.
One thing I can say is if they ever do find the sub intact, its very likely these guys recorded their last hours on their phones and we are very likely to see that at some point… talk about nightmare fuel.
To quote the article:
I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.
Because passenger vehicle safety hasn’t had leaps and bounds since their inception. This is the equivalent of “don’t get hurt” on job sites, and has about the same results. Regulations are written in blood.
Oh no! Anyway
“You know, at some point, safety is just pure waste,” Rush told CBS’ David Pogue during an episode of his “Unsung Science” podcast. “I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.”
There’s a slight difference between driving in a car and going to the bottom of the ocean in tin can. These are not equivalent.
This dumbass earned his Darwin award, it’s just too bad he had to take four other people with him who were lied to about the safety of the expedition.
I propose that we replace the phrase “hoisted by your own pitard” with “sunk by your own submarine.” Feels more modern and less like my wife will laugh at me whenever I say it.
We should never replace that phrase, just send your wife this simple explanation to get her on board with it.
