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Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:27:08 JST Another Angry Woman
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Here's the link to the article. Enjoy. Every screenshot I've seen has been pulling out a different "favourite" detail on how entirely fucked the whole thing was 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.
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  Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:27:09 JST Another Angry Woman
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  To be scrupulously fair to everyone involved, this exact same thing happened to me and a mate playing Tony Hawk while stoned in the late 00s.
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  1. “Oh, my God,” Griffith muttered. One of the thrusters had been installed in the wrong direction. “The only thing I can do is a three-sixty,” he said. They were in the debris field, three hundred metres from the intact part of the wreck. One of the clients said that she had delayed buying a car, getting married, and having kids, all “because I wanted to go to Titanic,” but they couldn’t make their way over to its bow. Griffith relayed the situation to the ship. Rush’s solution was to “remap the PS3 controller.” Rush couldn’t remember where the buttons were, and it seems as though there was no spare controller on the ship. Someone loaded an image of a PlayStation 3 controller from the Internet, and Rush worked out a new button routine. “Yeah—left and right might be forward and back. Huh. I don’t know,” he said. “It might work.” “Right is forward,” Griffith read off his screen, two and a half miles below. “Uh—I’m going to have to write this down.” “Right is forward,” Rush said. “Great! Live with it.”
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  Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:27:10 JST Another Angry Woman
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  "We'll just wait for the fucking thing to degrade sufficiently" is quite the safety feature
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  1. It’s not clear that Rush could always stop his descent. Once, as he piloted passengers to the wreck, a malfunction prevented Rush from dropping weights. Passengers calmly discussed sleeping on the bottom of the ocean, thirty-eight hundred metres down; after twenty-four hours, a drop-weight mechanism would dissolve in the seawater, allowing the submersible to surface.
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  Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:27:11 JST Another Angry Woman
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  OK I literally, actually spat coffee at this
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  1. Soon afterward, Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot. “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me.
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  Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:27:12 JST Another Angry Woman
  
  Favourite detail so far, on the ~real-time hull monitoring system~
  "We didn’t know what it would sound like if something went wrong.”
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  1. Rush was furious; he called a meeting that afternoon, and recorded it on his phone. For the next two hours, the OceanGate leadership insisted that no hull testing was necessary—an acoustic monitoring system, to detect fraying fibres, would serve in its place. According to the company, the system would alert the pilot to the possibility of catastrophic failure “with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.” But, in a court filing, Lochridge’s lawyer wrote, “this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail—often milliseconds before an implosion—and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull.” A former senior employee who was present at the meeting told me, “We didn’t even have a baseline. We didn’t know what it would sound like if something went wrong.”
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  Susan Lewis (susanlewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 22:04:18 JST Susan Lewis
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  I assume there isn't an international regulator for these kinds of expeditions. Never heard of anything so shoddy. Your car would be condemned if it was that bad.
  
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  Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm: (tob@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 22:04:18 JST Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:
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  @SusanLewis There seem to be numerous regulatory bodies around the world. Any one of which would have prevented this numbskull from perpetrating this calamitous farce.
  So, of course, being a billionaire brain genius, he twisted himself in knots specifically to avoid their jurisdiction.
  
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  Hope (themorrigan@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 00:18:23 JST Hope
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  @stavvers and Musk the space clown is making rocketships…what could possibly go wrong…
  
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  arccyclist :verified_gay: (christopherd@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 01:24:35 JST arccyclist :verified_gay:
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  @stavvers Read somewhere that the people inside the submersible would not have any time to know it was an implosion. Such an event happens in 1 millisecond apparently. Stuff from eyeball to brain takes couple hundred milliseconds. and pain signals take a bit longer. It would have been a case of living, then instantly dead.
  
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  arccyclist :verified_gay: (christopherd@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 17:48:32 JST arccyclist :verified_gay:
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  @goatsarah @stavvers Ugggh can't unsee that image! But yeah, instant implosion means immediate forced pressure of air inside for a brief moment - which would have ruptured ear drums, and yes probably 'squeezed' the brain membrane.
  
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  Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 18:02:29 JST Alisdair Calder McGregor
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  @goatsarah @stavvers @christopherd I'm glad there wouldn't have been time for them to experience any pain; very much one of those "you stop being biology and start being physics" kind of deaths
  
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  Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 18:05:50 JST Another Angry Woman
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  @goatsarah @christopherd must have been pleasant for that millisecond, apparently it was fucking cold in there
  
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