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.
Jesus that’s just terrifying.
I highly doubt they will ever find the sub, its too small and could be literally anywhere.
Oof, crow for dinner in 30 minutes or less.
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.
I think those kind of statements shouldn’t be taken out of context.
I mean, it’s not wrong to say there has to be a balance between security and usability, but neglecting security measures is a totally different thing.
It’s true that, unfortunately often, top managers are the ones always trying to be cheap on security, but I don’t think it’s fair trying to imply someone actually did by publishing a statement out of context.
This thing will be investigated for sure, let’s not start a witch-hunt before knowing the facts.
You have a point, but in this case, I don’t think it’s really out of context. His attitude was very relevant to this tragedy imo
Oh no! Anyway
Fuck the billionaires taking submarine rides for shits and giggles.
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.
Its too bad that idiot had to take 4 other people to their deaths with him, especially that kid
He fucked around and found out
“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 assume that they had quite some time to discuss the topic since Sunday, unfortunately.
“I think I can do this just as safely while breaking the rules,” he added at the time.
Doesn’t sound that out of context to me. Rules and regulations are written in blood. FAFO
guy was a woke idiot and i don’t feel bad for him one bit.
So here’s what he actually said:
“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.”
I don’t think that’s unreasonable. I mean you can never go outside again to be safe but most people are gonna take a little bit of risk and go outside to get groceries or meet friends.
I agree it’s not that unreasonable of a decision to make for yourself. I’m the same way, I do things that many people would consider dangerous while out climbing.
However he was responsible for other people’s safety… and now he’s responsible for other people’s deaths.
Thanks for the quote.
The reward for a billionaire making such a trip is to brag by saying he did something we couldn’t do. Risk he took was high despite his belief.
No insurance plan exists to pay for the rescue operations of such idiotic selfish trips even after this question was discussed concerning sail boat races around the world’s seas.
On the other hand, the reward for making the groceries is to have food to stay alive. Risks of death for grocery’s trip is less than 1/100_000_000 (very rough estimate).
Let’s put our resources and energy where it is sensible.Not unreasonable, but getting out of bed and going to the most dangerous part of our planet don’t really equate, you know? And when your own engineers are telling you you’ve made something unsafe, but you just keep going?? Well…
There is a huge difference between acceptable risk and recklessness. Reading his interviews he was a cowboy and this was an inevitability. This was in essence a murder suicide.
