James Cameron was saying years ago that carbon composite is bad: "you're going to get killed in that thing."
Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show
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Re: Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is only partially true. Generally, Risk = probability x severity. From that link, they characterized the severity (death) but not the probability. Saying "you may die" is different from saying "your have a 50% chance of dying." My guess is nobody had a good estimate for the probability so nobody could have accurately communicated the risk.
"2. A portion of the operation will be conducted inside an experimental submersible vessel. The experimental submersible vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and may be constructed of materials that have not been widely used in human occupied submersibles ." I don't know. This implies a high probability to me.
The sub had already completed a few dives to the titanic and the CEO downplayed the risks in the texts that came out between him and a guy that pulled out. Taking both of those together I can see why a non-technical person might be taken in and therefore dismiss the waiver as typical legalese.
Re: Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show
#93"The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren’t “inspirational.” The CEO, Stockton Rush, added that “expertise was unnecessary” because “anybody can drive the sub” with a $30 video game controller." [0] [0] https://www.outkick.com/tr…
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Concentrate on the message instead of the messenger.
Aside from that it should be clear to even the most blind-sided activists that this type of exclusionary policy as advocated by the former CEO is a recipe for disaster; selecting on race, gender and age is not the way to get the most competent u-boat commanders and intentionally excluding those with a proven track record in this field is an even worse policy.