June 22, 20232 yr Quote https://www.thedailybeast.com/chilling-tales-of-past-dives-to-titanic-wreckage-keep-piling-up Nearly all former passengers spoke of electrical and communication failures—jarring issues that ex-passenger Mike Reiss described as a common occurrence on dives by OceanGate, the company that operates the missing submersible. "Every time they lost communication—that seems to be just something baked into the system," Reiss told ABC News. Reiss, the showrunner for The Simpsons, completed four tours with OceanGate, including one to the site of the Titanic. He said his submersible lost contact with the host ship on every dive, just as the Titan did on Sunday afternoon less than two hours into its ill-fated trip. Others echoed similar horror stories in their dive to the ocean’s bottom. Arthur Loibl, 60, said he was "incredibly lucky” to survive his dive on Titan back in 2021. Loibl, a wealthy German adventurist, told Bild the submersible he was scheduled to dive with initially became inoperable. Then, once aboard the Titan, a second attempted dive was abandoned at 1,600 meters because of equipment failures and electrical problems. Loibl said he eventually began his successful dive five hours behind schedule, but said the ordeal was the most terrifying experience of his life—topping grueling treks he made to the north and south poles. "It was a suicide mission back then,” Loibl said. Doesn't sound very good.
June 22, 20232 yr Me too. Some are good though. It's not like they didn't go freely and of course the company has them sign a waiver, so..............
June 22, 20232 yr Years before Titan sub went missing, OceanGate was warned about "catastrophic" safety issues https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missing-titanic-submarine-oceangate-safety-warnings-lawsuits/ Quote In 2018, a professional trade group warned that OceanGate's experimental approach to the design of the Titan could lead to potentially "catastrophic" outcomes, according to a letter from the group obtained by CBS News. That same year, an employee of OceanGate raised safety concerns about the Titan's design and the company's protocol for testing the hull's reliability. That employee, David Lochridge, was fired by OceanGate after airing his complaints to government regulators and OceanGate's management, with the latter then suing him for breach of contract. In response to OceanGate's lawsuit, Lochridge counter-sued, airing his concerns about Titan's safety in a 2018 court document. Lochridge claimed he believed the company could "subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible," according to the legal filing. How not at all shocking.
June 22, 20232 yr I wish there were a way to avoid this story. The whole thing scares the sheet out of me.
June 22, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: I wish there were a way to avoid this story. The whole thing scares the sheet out of me. Don't go deep underwater in a sub that shouldn't be at those depths and you will be fine.
June 22, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, DaEagles4Life said: Don't go deep underwater in a sub that shouldn't be at those depths and you will be fine. If you have to go, and the window is rated at 1300 feet, don't go under a 1000.
June 22, 20232 yr Just now, DaEagles4Life said: Don't go deep underwater in a sub that shouldn't be at those depths and you will be fine. I won't but still, I don't even wanna hear about it.
June 22, 20232 yr 18 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: I won't but still, I don't even wanna hear about it. don't worry, at that depth you won't hear them at all
June 22, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Mike030270 said: Just think of the sales spike this game will get when polio makes an anti-vax fueled comeback..
June 22, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: A "debris field"? Like it broke apart or something after it surfaced? That somehow makes even less sense for something was supposed to be strong enough to be able to withstand immense external pressures.
June 22, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Mike030270 said: If it makes him feel better I'm sure becoming a billionaire involves a lot of things that "feel wrong" as well.
June 22, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: A "debris field"? Like it broke apart or something after it surfaced? That somehow makes even less sense for something was supposed to be strong enough to be able to withstand immense external pressures. I’m guessing it is more likely that it was crushed, broke into pieces, then the buoyant pieces floated to the surface.
June 22, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, Imp81318 said: I’m guessing it is more likely that it was crushed, broke into pieces, then the buoyant pieces floated to the surface. Yeah, back in WW2 they looked for debris fields to confirm they had sunk a U-boat. It's the junk that floats to the surface.
June 22, 20232 yr The more I read about this, the more I come the conclusion that these guys should've cut far fewer corners when designing and building the thing and charged $1M per trip instead of $250k.
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