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Highly innovative! Instead of their sudden death being a complete surprise, they may have had a few awful moments of warning.
The engineer who worked on it said it would provide only milliseconds of warning before the hull collapsed. He was promptly fired.
> They do not ensure that operators adhere to proper operating procedures and decision-making processes – two areas that are much more important for mitigating risks at sea. plane_with_red_dots.jpeg This sounds an awful lot like survivorship bias.
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It also sounded to me like dodging the question.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, they're saying the biggest problem with submersibles is operator error. Of course it is, when the classing system effectively eliminates the majority of mechanical failures. That doesn't mean the classing system is failing, on the contrary, it means its working.
> They do not ensure that operators adhere to proper operating procedures and decision-making processes – two areas that are much more important for mitigating risks at sea. plane_with_red_dots.jpeg This sounds an awful lot like survivorship bias.
Could that be because the vast majority of mechanical designs go through processes designed to validate them and catch flaws?
They also use SpaceX as an example. SpaceX ran a large number of unmanned launches to prove out the design before putting people on board. Several of those ended in loss of the vehicle and the data from that was used to refine.
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The engineer who worked on it said it would provide only milliseconds of warning before the hull collapsed. He was promptly fired.
Source? (the story does sound plausible, but having a source would be helpful)
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Highly innovative! Instead of their sudden death being a complete surprise, they may have had a few awful moments of warning.
Wouldn't they have communicated that back if they had? There wasn't even an "Uh-oh", as far as we know.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Highly innovative! Instead of their sudden death being a complete surprise, they may have had a few awful moments of warning.
The engineer who worked on it said it would provide only milliseconds of warning before the hull collapsed. He was promptly fired.