That was an excellent article. It was pretty infuriating to read about the sheer cavalier arrogance of the guy that got everyone killed.
He thought he knew better than everyone else – than the establishment – scientists and engineers with decades of experience in building and operating submersibles safely at extreme depths.
It’s like this asshole did things “differently” (read: wrong) – by making the worst, most idiotic possible design decisions – purely out of spite and hubris. And ignorance I guess.
That would be bad enough. But then ignoring every warning from experts … and ignoring his own test failures… Fucking hell. If he got himself killed, alone, I wouldn’t bat an eyelash but it sickens me that others paid with their life for his unabashed negligence.
I’ve known people like that, but fortunately they don’t try to put people in harms way for a buck.
Too bad his only other passengers weren’t that lawyer and head engineer.
Tbh that safety guy that got fired and sued pisses me off, too. His legal fees were being covered but he still settled out of court and allowed the problem to disappear for them.
Though the real villain is the legal system that allows a lawsuit about a safety director disagreeing that something was safe to proceed or one involving the wife who wasn’t otherwise involved. Which is also why I wish the lawyer, that said “ok” when the piece of shit asked him to file that lawsuit, was on the sub when it imploded.
Here’s the same link with 75 pounds of tracking bullshit removed.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/titan-submersible-implosion-warnings
And here’s the archive link:
https://archive.ph/mt8uj
That was an excellent article. It was pretty infuriating to read about the sheer cavalier arrogance of the guy that got everyone killed.
He thought he knew better than everyone else – than the establishment – scientists and engineers with decades of experience in building and operating submersibles safely at extreme depths.
It’s like this asshole did things “differently” (read: wrong) – by making the worst, most idiotic possible design decisions – purely out of spite and hubris. And ignorance I guess.
That would be bad enough. But then ignoring every warning from experts … and ignoring his own test failures… Fucking hell. If he got himself killed, alone, I wouldn’t bat an eyelash but it sickens me that others paid with their life for his unabashed negligence.
I’ve known people like that, but fortunately they don’t try to put people in harms way for a buck.
Too bad his only other passengers weren’t that lawyer and head engineer.
Tbh that safety guy that got fired and sued pisses me off, too. His legal fees were being covered but he still settled out of court and allowed the problem to disappear for them.
Though the real villain is the legal system that allows a lawsuit about a safety director disagreeing that something was safe to proceed or one involving the wife who wasn’t otherwise involved. Which is also why I wish the lawyer, that said “ok” when the piece of shit asked him to file that lawsuit, was on the sub when it imploded.