I could have fabricobbled something a little more elegant. Id have at least gone with stainless pipe or solid bar in lieu of rusty steel and sandbags. Seriously this thing looks like it was built in the dudes garage.Interesting ballast release mechanism for the repurposed old pipes, if true:
"So here's the ballast. The journalist who went in it says you release it by getting everyone to sit on one side of the sub so it rolls enough for the pipes to fall off the shelf"
https://twitter.com/BirdTickler/status/1671002901064425472
I think that was the general theme here. The interior lighting was literally sourced from Camping World, as well.
And he was proud of that.
Everybody left will blame the CEO for cutting corners which is probably true. The Sea has taken care of/will be taking care of him.
They may have thought they could, I highly doubt they actually had the data to do it.
I’ve only read this thread so I probably missed something…why would the sub company have much in assets? Minimal number of revenue generating rides and (now mostly) worthless subs and parts.
If they didn’t return my money, I’d sue to get it back. Beyond that, I don’t believe in monetary compensation for mental anguish, and I don’t think they have any money to get from them as punishment to teach them a lesson.
Offer them a voucher for a future trip, lol.
Well, I would hope at the very least they get a refund.
What does ‘need’ have to do with it? This demographic crossed the line from need to ‘because I can’ a long time ago.
No, no, no. Diversity, not competence. Do you need to be taken to a re-education jamboree?
An implosion, you bet. A slow leak, not so much. One would hope that they'd inflate the balloons immediately in that case.
They have CO2 scrubbers, or at least one; it's possible they'll exhaust that before they use up all of the O2. High CO2 levels can induce panic (the breathing reflex is triggered, but cannot be satisfied.)
True. And for the MH-370, finding the wreckage could also potentially lead to identifying a preventable cause. Here, though, it seems any such lessons may have limited value, given the nature of the “workmanship” we’re being shown.
To be fair, the waiver I signed to play in my recreational hockey league includes the word death twice. That doesn't mean that anyone expects to die doing it.
It's not about expecting to die. It's about understanding that it could happen, and accepting the risk that it might.
Unless, for one reason or the other, the tour operator banned private electronic devices aboard. There's the wish to control the narrative; there's also the fire danger from the cell-phone batteries. Suspect the vessel had a pretty good built-in video/audio system which would have been available to the passengers afterwards.
Compounded by the fact that their CEO structured the operation to avoid US legal requirements and recent US laws regulating submersibles.
