62 Replies to “We All Live In A Rainbow Submarine”

  1. Remind me to ask about a company’s hiring philosophy when I’m about to put my life in their hands.

  2. Sounds like Karine Jean-Pierre has just found a post-White House career as a submarine operator.

      1. Quite right. Usually more regulations have little effect. Most accidents are caused by deliberate or inadvertent violations of existing safety regulations, or, in the case of RBMK reactors, are unsafe by design. The owner/operator’s own interview gives away what was the likely problem: violation of existing safety requirements.

        1. Totally agree…those “50 year old former submariner White guys” probably looked at the set-up and started asking questions the CEO and his minions either didn’t know the answers to or didn’t want to address. When you go down to those depths your vessel will experience 5000 psi–you want to minimize (to zero) as many problems as possible. A 25 year old with no experience, wouldn’t even know the questions to ask–like “how will you retrieve the sub in case of breakdown when we’re at “x” feet below the surface”, because the requirements for recovery changes with the depth.

      2. Regulations, no; good design practices and operating procedures would.

    1. Dammit, you owe me a new iPad to replace the one I just sprayed coffee all over.

    2. Cost to see the Titanic wreckage on the OceanGate sub – $250,000 USD per person

      Getting to stay, priceless…

      Never too soon.

      1. Saw this on Fakebook: “They paid $250,000 for the FULL Titanic experience and it was delivered to them….Sinking is part of that experience.”

        1. i dont think they sank, more like imploded into nothing in the blink of an eye.

  5. Airlines are also employing the same “we can train people…”logic with respect to pilots. In fact it’s been fast tracked because the pool of ex military aviators is dwindling fast. ESG means you have to lower the bar and we all know what that means when it comes to the quality of the product at the other end. Thank goodness I don’t fly anymore.
    “What’s this do?” is not what you want to hear at 35,000 ft.

      1. Lucky you. I had aspirations to be a pilot but life got in the way.
        5’10”, blonde and blue eyes to put a finer point on it.

      2. Me too, but it isn’t practical for transatlantic flights, sadly.
        My son is an airline pilot and has just been promoted to Captain, with around 2,000 hours! He applied for the upgrade the moment his ATPL came through, and it was accepted. When he started as FO, he had less than 300hrs.

      3. Hopefully a diversity hire ATC won’t vector you into a 757’s path that’s been flown by another diversity hire.

    2. Having ‘unstable people’ around could be another problem when they panic and want out as their phobias ignite their panic.
      But they’re cheaper to hire…as inexperienced people flood the labor market.

    3. ‘ “What’s this thing do?”, is not something you want to hear at 35,000ft. “…and even less so at -12,000 ft.
      Unfortunately for these folks, the machine didn’t know anything about ‘diversity’ and didn’t care.

      Like Feynman said,” Mother Nature cannot be fooled…”

  6. Well I certainly hope that the CEO of this company who *was* Auntie White and anti-white male will be happy to know that as he took his last breath while he was being crushed to death by the thousand pound per square inch water pressure ,that at least his corpse will be eaten by a very DIVERSE group of sea creatures, LOL

    1. Diversity is our strength.

      Except when under that 1000 pounds per square inch pressure that you referenced.

    2. Assuming they were crushed, that’s the merciful way for them to have gone out. It would have been over in an instant.

      If instead they just lost power, they would have either frozen to death or suffocated after hours of knowing there was nothing they could do to save themselves. The father who took his son with him on the trip would have died knowing he took his son with him. That’s a terrible way to go.

      Either way they’re almost certainly dead by now. May God save their souls.

  7. I am imagining the inspirational 25-year old’s check list…
    Vaxxed…. check
    Boosted… check
    Pride emblem… check
    EDI Refresher course completed… check
    Cell phone set to Airplane mode… check
    Identify as experienced submarine pilot… check
    ….

  8. The privileges of attractive young women. If it turns out that this “older white guy” mostly has a young female workforce, would anyone be surprised about what happens next? Asking for a friend.

    1. The design may have been inspirational, but it doesn’t appear to have been respirational.

    3. … bosses fired David Lochridge, who was Director of Marine operations for the Titan project, in 2018 after it disagreed with his demand for more rigorous safety checks …

      Well, that’s it.

  12. If he is inside the sub, you can change his name from Stockton Rush to Stockton Crush, and blame it on DEI.
    You don’t need experienced 50 yo white guys to creatively get you down, you need them to reliably get you back up.

  13. Didn’t the Space Shuttle blow up because of a failed o-ring? This is risky stuff. Diving to a 4 km depth in the ocean is very risky. I think, if someone wants to build a submersible, and can charge $250,000 per person, then let him. And if he wants to hire young women to inspire him in his craziness – and they are crazy enough to say yes – I don’t see any harm. Imagine a 50-year old white guy not wanting other 50-year old white guys as part of his crew. That has King written all over it.

    The submersible was obviously sub-standard. Maybe somebody hacked his controller.

    1. We studied this in Human Factors Affecting Aircraft Safety as an example of pressure to perform/meet a schedule. Challenger was destroyed because senior management wanted to keep to a schedule for no other reason than bragging rights. The night before the launch it was freezing cold in Florida, there was ice on the launch pad in the morning. The O-rings sealing the solid fuel booster lost their resilience at low temperature allowing hot gas to escape which became a 40ft long blow torch which melted a strut, allowing the booster to hit and rupture the liquid fuel tank. If someone had said “It’s too cold, it’s not designed for this temperature, let’s wait until tomorrow” and the mission had been scrubbed the tragedy would have been averted. There were 24 missions and many test firings of the boosters at warm ambient temperatures without a failure.
      Regarding the submarine, why was it not lowered on a cable (while empty) to it’s design depth to test the pressure vessel?
      Why was the only hatch designed to be bolted shut from the outside? Once submerged the water pressure will hold the hatch tight to its seat, so a simple latching mechanism operated from the inside is all that’s needed.
      We humans are land animals, the further we go into the sky or the sea the more safety systems we need.

    2. The Space shuttle blew up because they launched on a freezing day, that took the o-rings right out of their safe operating temperature. The engineers objections to the launch were overruled … because NASA was shooting an “inspirational” passenger into space … an elementary school teacher … and they didn’t want any more delays. Some say Reagan pressured NASA to launch … which is utter rubbish as NASA makes the launch decisions.

      I’d say the Challenger “accident” (it was no such thing) … set “inspirational” back a few decades. All it inspired was an END to NASA as a space agency. Now? Gawd knows what they do.

  14. What I’d like to know is how in hell do these people amass so much wealth in the first place, when it is clear for all to see that they are in actual fact, shit-stupid?

      1. There was supposed to be a pair of angle brackets between clever and smart (to denote not equal), but I guess they got removed as bad markup. Didn’t notice before my edit time ran out. Oops.

    2. See Bill Gates for example, and the executives at IBM that thought hardware was the future and that DOS thingy wasn’t worth squat.

      1. Sears Roebuck and Co. had all the infrastructure in the 1990’s that was needed to out-Amazon Amazon. They just had no imagination.

    3. Being very good at one thing doesn’t make you an expert at everything. It’s called hubris at that point and it always invites Nemesis.

  16. I’m really having a hard time wrapping my head around the controller for that deep sea barrel.
    A “You can’t be serious!!!” moment.

  18. They should have used technology from the sub-aquatic industry, not the aerospace industry. DIE kills. Did they have auxillary power sources? Emeergency transponders? Beacons? I cannot fathom why such systems, if available, were not used unless there was a catastrophic failure.

    1. I read that they had no heaters … or inadequate heaters. So they took you to the bottom of a 33 deg.F sea in a composite shell … and hope you get back to the surface before you freeze … to the point of losing all ability to operate that joystick

  19. From the legal document

    …the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters.

    Whoa!

  20. That didn’t age well.. Any word on the equity choices that were made to “person” the crew?..

  21. Regardless of one’s disposable income, why would a person go into a submersible that requires tools to get out of the craft? Even if they are now surfaced, the 96 hour air supply is running out and if support craft are not on-station with tools for extraction, they will be dead. For what? The photos of the Titanic are readily available on the web.

  22. For those interested, here’s the history of Alvin, a manned submersible run by Woods Hole since the 1960s with a large number of dives. Within the text, it gives the reader a good idea of what is required in design, maintenance, and safety consideration to do these operations properly. By the way, they surveyed around the Titanic in 1986.

  23. He’s making a virtue of necessity – the fifty year old “experienced” white guys didn’t want the job

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