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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I am genuinely sad for the 19yr old.
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sad because he’s younger than the rest? It is sad, sad that all the men died. He wasn’t a baby. God, some people have kids at 19, they have jobs, responsibilities. Why are we acting like he was 9? If his father was abusive and forced him into the crap device, then that’s concerning, but that’s not the case here. Do we feel this bad if a 19 year old has a motorcycle accident while riding with his dad? Or if a 19 year old dies while sky diving with Dad? I feel equal sorrow for everyone. The dad was only 48, he was very young also.[/quote]

Yeah I mean it struck me that the dad's own dad is in his late 70s/early 80s. That man lost a son and a grandson.[/quote]
I feel for the families. But yeah, a 48 year old has potentially another 50 years of life, even the oldest man was 77 years young. Sadly, you can die at any age. These men were robbed of life, they made one bad decision, like many people do, and that’s it, show’s over.[/quote]

They weren't robbed; they made a choice (minus the kid). Robbed is being murdered, killed by a drunk driver, plane crash etc. Signing a waiver that notes "death" in it four times is a choice.[/quote]
But it has been done before and people survived, they didn’t believe they would be the ones to implode.[/quote]

This vehicle had never been cycled to failure. It’s right there in the lawsuit. Nobody had any rational basis for thinking it would go one cycle, five cycles, or any number of cycles plus one and still be OK, because none of that had been tested. [/quote]

Not true at all. Lawsuit was filed in 2018 by a non engineer after he was fired.

Testing and cycling was done in the five years after that and a new hull was manufactured.

Stop quoting your “facts” from a five year old lawsuit from ex employees. [/quote]

Oceangate was selling tickets in 2018 on the basis of the data that existed at that time. Whether or not there was any new data generated after that, they showed disregard for safety and a lack of transparency with passengers from the beginning. The CEO said this himself--"safety is risk."

But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. You're saying that these passengers were offered data about the subsequent testing and cycling that was done and the results? By all means cite it so that we can understand what might have been in their minds other than hope, hubris and bullshit.

(Also LOL at repeating the company's attempt to smear the whistleblower based on him being a "non engineer". He's a qualified submarine pilot and inspector. They hired him to run their safety program. If he's not an engineer--and that is the only relevant question as to his qualifications--what does their choice of him as the guy running the safety program say about them?)[/quote]

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