One. fella had his son on there…
You would never get me in that thing, even if I was paid to go.
God Bless them and families.
NN
250,000 to go. You couldn’t pay me $250, 000.
Hannity today. He was talking about a fella that had went down in it a couple years ago. Said it was pretty much a suicide mission.
Said there were several delays. Because of issues. One of them something about the stabilizer had come loose and they just zip tied it back on. He also said it was just a matter of time. Surely everybody’s heard about maneuvering it with a game console.
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Heard about the game controller.
A lot of safety porblems, accidents come from lack of maintenance, shortcuts…It worked before kinda stuff.
I have gotten into watching Air Disasters show.
A lot could be learned from those shows across the country to all companies. Most companies have vigorous safety training.
Scary now, with the DEI stuff pushing thru the wrong folk’s…
Don’t need a pilot or Nuke operator in the seat…and plenty more OP’s.
NN
Hard to believe that seemingly intelligent people not only went down in that thing but paid $250,000 to do so. I saw a video of the CEO “showing off” his death can and was stunned at how basic and poorly made it appeared to be. How anyone could have looked at that and said, “heck yeah, sign me up”, is beyond me. If any of the other passengers had done any investigating (even basic Googling), they would have found information on the internet about this sub, the company and its CEO and the lawsuit brought by 2 former employees who were fired for bringing up safety concerns. They guy was an arrogant maverick who cut corners and hired inspirational youngsters rather than knowledgeable and skilled old white guys.
The saddest thing is the fact that the 19-year-old kid was terrified and didn’t really want to go but did to please his father.
Lastly, there is now information that the Navy heard the implosion days ago. If this turns out to be true, the question is, "why was this news withheld and why was millions of $ wasted continuing a search for something that wasn’t there?
I wouldn’t have gone either. He admitted that using carbon fiber and titanium was risky and untested. I know that both are light and strong but neither have any elasticity so its also brittle . One fracture and boom. I think the reason the Navy continued the search was to verify that their top secrete equipment was actually working. You don’t really believe that the search should never have been started because the Navy heard something do you ?
The Navy heard something alright.
They heard the craft implode approx 10:00 a m. last Sunday morning.
The rest was an orchestrated fiasco!
Devised to divert your attention.
To keep this in Off Topic I’ll leave it at that…
I read where the word “death” was on the first page of the waiver 5 times… they knew what the chances were. Still…RIP
Divert attention from what?
Plenty of options there, that’s too easy. Like he said, it can be left at that.
Do you have anything to add about the submarine situation?
There is no excuse for a disaster like this. . Every boat I have ever owned was completely inspected after and before every trip and anything questionable was brought up to speed. When human lives are being placed in such obvious danger the vessel should undergo a complete rigorous survey . The rats are jumping off the ship now reporting shoddy maintenance . Absolutely shameful.
Dang, this sucks regarding the Oceangate dive - General / Off Topic - Charleston Fishing
There’s a way to add/merge the threads, I just don’t know how to do it yet.
Is the saying ‘ignorance is bliss’ working for you B???
International waters = no rules. Every person on the sub was an adult that signed a waiver. No doubt the waiver contained all kinds of “death”, “risk”, “experimental”, and other phrases that clearly stated that one was not expected to return.
The lawyers will have their fun and we’ll get to see the waiver they signed.
I bet every person that had been on the sub is thinking, “that could have been me.”
I gave you an answer, but it got flagged and removed. Shame we have tender skinned grown men. Basically just a thought from me. Looking back it just seems like when certain news stories take front stage we seem to have some sort of big disaster to come out in the news. That’s all. like UFO sightings, The Palestine Train wreck, … I sincerely hope this doesn’t trigger the flag. Hard to tip toe and keep everyone happy.
Prayers for all the family member of those that were in the submersible. Blueskyguy summed it up.
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Not to sound like a heartless jackass.
But these people knew the risk.
Everyone said it’s just a matter of time. But fortunately it sounds like their death was pretty instantaneous. The owner of the company should be responsible for the money spent on the rescue.
The “rescue” was way overblown, again, in an attempt to divert attention.
Our Navy knew the craft was toast, as early as Sunday morning, yet the Coast Guard lied about the whole episode.
Carrying on with false hopes of the Crew, maybe, having enough oxygen to survive, until they were found, and rescued.
Meanwhile, knowing they were already dead.
All I care to say, while trying to keep this thread in Off Topic.
By the way, the Owner was on board, and lost, with the rest of the crew.
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And the other thing. There is no means to have rescued them. So what was the point.
Just like Mount Everest over 300 people and died in 100 years trying to scale the mountain.
My opinion: stuff like this is you should be responsible to put your own rescue team/ mercenaries together prior.
If not you’re on your own.
He added Magellan’s remotely operated vehicle was unique in that it was likely the only asset available to have a winch capable of dragging submersibles from the depths of the ocean. It can also detect signals and send them above the surface.
There’s more out there but well you know the thing
If I understand it correctly the Navy heard a noise. At the time they may have thought they knew what the sound pattern was but they did not have confirmation. Without confirmation it was reasonable to continue the search.
If they knew it was something imploding it could have been another object.
Once the debris field was found it was easy to match that with the noise.
Fair enough, but, why all of the lying from the Coast Guard, about the amount of time before the oxygen ran out?
A “questionable” craft goes missing, at the exact time the Navy detects an underwater implosion, in the same area.
Not too hard to figure out?