The only shocking thing is that the rich idiot who said “fuck you” to all the safety standards actually suffered consequences.
Too bad he took a 19-year-old with him :/
Shocked? Absolutely not. Disturbed? Nope, content that some rich no clue CEO idiot went yolo? Perhaps
I do feel for the 19 year old who was rightfully terrified of the thing but went on because his dad wanted to bond
Wait, three rich ppl were there as customers?
This thing is actually more efficient than I gave it credit.we’re millions saying “eat the rich” with zero success so far. And one dumb guy with a PS5 controller took 4 of them in a sweeping move
Can we do another one? Beer barrels are probably strong enough for this!
Yeah I feel for them as well, because the kid was essentially forced into a one way trip they will never come back from because of their father emotionally guilt tripping them into it
I mean, the only thing that shocked me, honestly, was that millionaires were willing to get inside that thing.
I mean. It looked like a giant fleshlite.
Dildo actually. Not flesh light. But maybe during the implosion for a split nano second.
That’s terrible. I love it.
Which character does James Earl Jones play
He’s the voice of the sub.
You beat me to it, but HELL YES!
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Even when OceanGate decided to change the domes in the final design from carbon fiber to titanium, Rush didn’t commission models to test the interactions between the new materials; one former employee who was familiar with Rush’s decision says the CEO balked at the high price tag.
Bro, wtf. Then they also reused the same o rings from the first hull and ripped it off and moved it to the new hull. I’m surprised they didn’t die sooner. Thing was a death trap.
Definitely need more of these!
I do like the idea of how the billionaires who died didn’t understand that their own hatred of quality control standards applied to every other corporation including the ones they have to rely on for their safety.
Surprise surprise big tech company ceo turns out to be a self-entitled, I know it all, asshole. If only it always had negative outcomes on billionaires cause usually it is the exact opposite. Normally they float and common people drown.
These guys have lich levels of drive for success and living forever and yet can be so self absorbed in their clearly unjustified and uninformed ideas about very technical topics, that they can literally march themselves and their siblings to certain death. This just proves that they have the capacity to destroy the Earth in the most obvious way and yet not realize it. Like “I am sure a single nuke to China will be fine they have billions” level of stupidity I am talking about here.
Did Stockton Rush at least get his Darwin Award? Or is that only for people who do not murder others?
Did he have kids?
I hope not!
2 according to Wikipedia
Imagine turning yourself into pink mist for this idiot lmao
But it’s still as narcissisticly stupid as we already know it was.
This Wired article is an interesting read, well worth the time.
I wish we could see into the head of Stockton Rush a little bit more. The job of all entrepreneurs is to a large degree knowing who to listen to and who to ignore, as well as figuring out which rules you can break. Usually the lives of passengers and yourself is not on the line, though and that’s why so many of the highly competent engineers left his team.
A lot of his decision making seemed money driven. He got quotations for testing services but declined because of the cost. Salvaging the old titanium rings from the old busted hull to use on the new hull was a risky choice but new ones were surely very expensive. Perhaps a much larger budget would have led to a more committed team of experts and the resources to test things to a higher degree of confidence.
As this article points out, OceanGate just never came up with a design that was good enough for the job at hand.
But what can you say. The ocean floor is littered with countless dreams.
I got a good laugh out of it. wouldn’t call it shock.
I wished this happened to Bezos and Musk on their space penises. But I’ll take these billionaires.
