LOL. I didn't know that. I have to say, though, knowing what we know about the CEO, that's probably just a namesake tool. Safety really wasn't forefront of CEO. He called himself an innovator, I call him reckless egomaniac. |
One of the tourists was a child. Something tells me he had to depend on the adults to tell him it was safe. |
Those are typically the same thing. |
ha ha...yeah, good point.
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Well, technically he was 19 and had to sign his own liability waiver. |
^100% same! [PP] |
| There is a chat circulating on the interwebs that is supposedly a copy of the conversation between the submersible and the topside ship. In the convo, the CEO mentions hearing crackling coming from the aft twice and that some sort of alert system was sounding. He mentioned that he was descending too rapidly and had jettisoned the landing platform (but had trouble doing so initially) in an attempt to ascend. The ascent appeared to be going slowly and it also seemed he was having trouble with one of the power systems. At that point the conversation dies (around 9:54 a.m.). Obviously I have no idea if this conversation is legit or not. |
I heard, like an other PP, that there were only signals or pings, not actually conversation. I guess this is so they could be, ya know, cool. |
His dad failed him. I don’t blame the kid. |
That’s harsh. Only person to blame is the CEO. |
Right, no idea. The convo appeared to be in text format (which is consistent with how the CEO explained the communication method used between the sub and the topside ship, and also consistent with videos of successful dives where you could see them communicating with the topside ship via some chat program on a laptop). |
| If they were able to hear crackling/cracking it must have been terrifying. |
Subs make all kinds of noise as they descend and pressure increases. If a leak happens, the water would enter the sub with enough force to cut steel. You would die so quickly you would not know what happened. |
Right because 19 year olds are the equivalent of 50 year old experienced adults and explorers. |
I guess? But OceanGate had enough confidence in it to tout it as a fail-safe measure in their documentation. |