TITAN IMPLOSION PLUS ONE YEAR

Here's an article about the coming inquiry into the disaster. I didn't know that Titan had made successful dives before it collapsed.

Cathy Jutilla-Lamet made presentations at the TitanicCons about the successful dives. This is a photo of her inside the Titan. I don't recall if she actually went down on one of the dives.

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If I was retired..instead of just tired and still working...I'd be listening to the proceedings all day long. Since I can't, I have to make do. This comes from a rather more reliable media source than some of what you see out there. If any of the claims made here hold up to scrutiny, then it would appear that matters were a lot worse than what we may have suspected.

 
I was able to hear the entirety of David Lochridge's testimony yesterday- and what an incredibly competent, professional man he is. There are another two weeks of hearings yet but frankly from the witnesses we've heard already, it's plain to see what happened; a highly demanding individual bullied to keep getting his own way, flew in the face of anything and everything that might slow him down, threatened and dismissed those who tried, and we all know the consequence. From what is coming out about it, the thing that amazes me the most about the Titan is that it ever survived going to full ocean depth at all, and didn't implode on the first attempt. It was, as Mr Lochridge said, an 'abomination'.
 
I was able to hear the entirety of David Lochridge's testimony yesterday- and what an incredibly competent, professional man he is. There are another two weeks of hearings yet but frankly from the witnesses we've heard already, it's plain to see what happened; a highly demanding individual bullied to keep getting his own way, flew in the face of anything and everything that might slow him down, threatened and dismissed those who tried, and we all know the consequence. From what is coming out about it, the thing that amazes me the most about the Titan is that it ever survived going to full ocean depth at all, and didn't implode on the first attempt. It was, as Mr Lochridge said, an 'abomination'.
Are these testimonies going to be typed up, I much prefer to read instead of listening to these
 
I was able to hear the entirety of David Lochridge's testimony yesterday- and what an incredibly competent, professional man he is. There are another two weeks of hearings yet but frankly from the witnesses we've heard already, it's plain to see what happened; a highly demanding individual bullied to keep getting his own way, flew in the face of anything and everything that might slow him down, threatened and dismissed those who tried, and we all know the consequence. From what is coming out about it, the thing that amazes me the most about the Titan is that it ever survived going to full ocean depth at all, and didn't implode on the first attempt. It was, as Mr Lochridge said, an 'abomination'.
And of course, at some point in the future, there will be stories sold about how it didn't really fail, the "brilliant idea" was somehow sabotaged by the forces of the "elitist status quo". Hopefully I don't live long enough to see that one reach the "don't you know that they were switched" level of noise.
 
I was able to hear the entirety of David Lochridge's testimony yesterday- and what an incredibly competent, professional man he is. There are another two weeks of hearings yet but frankly from the witnesses we've heard already, it's plain to see what happened; a highly demanding individual bullied to keep getting his own way, flew in the face of anything and everything that might slow him down, threatened and dismissed those who tried, and we all know the consequence. From what is coming out about it, the thing that amazes me the most about the Titan is that it ever survived going to full ocean depth at all, and didn't implode on the first attempt. It was, as Mr Lochridge said, an 'abomination'.

One way of putting it might be that if even a quarter of the things said in the hearing are true, then Rush was a real life version of the cardboard cutout of Ismay the Yellow Press made up to demonize in 1912.
 
I was able to hear the entirety of David Lochridge's testimony yesterday- and what an incredibly competent, professional man he is. There are another two weeks of hearings yet but frankly from the witnesses we've heard already, it's plain to see what happened; a highly demanding individual bullied to keep getting his own way, flew in the face of anything and everything that might slow him down, threatened and dismissed those who tried, and we all know the consequence. From what is coming out about it, the thing that amazes me the most about the Titan is that it ever survived going to full ocean depth at all, and didn't implode on the first attempt. It was, as Mr Lochridge said, an 'abomination'.

I 100% agree, the main question is whether or not SR thought the hull would survive or if he knew it was a death trap...To expand on SR's "workers"...

The UW (university) approved SR to use students for the capstone project of creating a smart battery using off-the-shelf parts. He offered those students he liked an internship, those interns created the electrical system, he offered the interns he liked jobs and only initially paid these engineers $15/hr

Interestingly, at one point he offered their CFO a job to pilot the Titan which she declined

He said he could build additional subs in "months, not years or a decade"
 
I'm sure he sincerely believed it was perfectly safe. After all he was willing to trust his own life to it.

I'm personally 50/50 on the question, a couple of data points that he could have always been or recently became suicidal:
-One of SR's close friends Karl Stanley, claims SR had a death wish and the Titan a "death trap for billionaires". All fueled by SR's desire to become famous and leave a legacy

-Titan's hull acoustic monitoring system was approved by an actual expert, Allen Green, and then SR OVER-stating its capabilities leading Allen to email SR to tell him he was wrong, SR ignored. SR always touts this system when mentioning safety
 
I'm personally 50/50 on the question, a couple of data points that he could have always been or recently became suicidal:
-One of SR's close friends Karl Stanley, claims SR had a death wish and the Titan a "death trap for billionaires". All fueled by SR's desire to become famous and leave a legacy

-Titan's hull acoustic monitoring system was approved by an actual expert, Allen Green, and then SR OVER-stating its capabilities leading Allen to email SR to tell him he was wrong, SR ignored. SR always touts this system when mentioning safety

I don't buy a suicide theory. Rush fits very well into the "techBro disruptor" west coast "move fast and break things" model; just unlike a self driving car accelerating into the back of a semi truck he chose a much more dramatic field to "disrupt".
 
I don't buy a suicide theory. Rush fits very well into the "techBro disruptor" west coast "move fast and break things" model; just unlike a self driving car accelerating into the back of a semi truck he chose a much more dramatic field to "disrupt".

Wouldn't becoming famous and having a legacy still fit into the techBro persona? He said his goal for Oceangate was to be a support vessel for deep-sea mining funded by the oil companies, but that never happened so some speculate he got depressed. Who knows, maybe we'll find out more with the hearing going on
 
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