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Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 17:40:55 JST Mariya Delano
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This is giving my lawyer husband an aneurysm
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1. everything to be out of U.S. jurisdiction" for its Titanic pursuits, the former senior Ocean Gate employee told me. "It was deliberate." In a legal filing, the company reported that the submersible was "being developed and assembled in Washington, but will be owned by a Bahamian entity, will be registered in the Bahamas and will operate exclusively outside the territorial waters of the United States. Although it is illegal to transport passengers in an unclassed, experimental submersible, "under U.S. regulations, you can kill crew," McCallum told me. "You do get in a little bit of trouble, in the eyes of the law. But, if you kill a passenger, you're in big trouble. And so everyone was classified as a 'mission specialist. There were no passengers--the word passenger was never used." No one bought tickets; they contributed an amount of money set by Rush to one of OceanGate's entities, to fund their own missions
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  Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 17:40:56 JST Mariya Delano
  
  OH MY GOD THE TITANIC SUBMARINE CEO WAS SO MUCH WORSE THAN I EXPECTED
  Billionaire hubris is unbelievable
  https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen
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    The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”
    
    from Ben Taub
    
    Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.
  2. Rush replied four days later, saying that he had "grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market." He understood that his approach "fies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation," he wrote. "We have heard the baseless cries of you are going to kill someone way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult."
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