OceanGate CEO ‘completely ignored’ flawed Titan sub before deadly trip, report finds

Wow, he ignored the flaws? I’m so glad for this new report, the plethora of previous reports didn’t already tell us that at all!

Even funnier: This news article is so well written/edited, that the headline doesn't even state that he ignored the flaws; It clearly states that he ignored the sub itself. Truly the pinnacle of journalism.

If only other CEOs would put their own lives at stake when ignoring basic safety to save money.

Yes. But this CEO had to drag other people along because he couldn’t afford it without other peoples money.

Watch the Netflix doc on this. It's quite the watch and the writing was on the wall for years!

Carbon Fiber just wasn't cutting it, but he just kept going and going. He could hear the strands of the fiber breaking and just didn't care. What kind of psychopath ignore that? Crazy shit.

A narcissistic one, with money, and no real understanding of the equipment. They are much more common than you would think in the c suite.
- Sadly I’ve seen this up close. Not only do CEO’s, not know, they don’t want to know. They really want the story that says, we are making money, and here’s how.
Carbon Fiber just wasn’t cutting it
Yup. Guy came up in aerospace, and while carbon fiber air frames have to deal with all sorts of freaky, weird stresses, simple compression is not one of them. The difference between sea level and basically outer space is exactly one atmosphere. The difference between sea level and the Titanic is… well… somewhat more.
- "How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?"
  "Well, it's a spaceship so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
- Saving you a click- it's 400 atmospheres.
I just heard a video of a test and you could hear the delamination. I really don't get how everyone single person involved didn't be like "yo homie, wtf‽" with every single bang! These people are supposed to be experts on this field. I have a maybe possible community college passing level of material engineering, and even I was like "what is wrong with everyone????"
- A bad case of affluenza.
He just wanted a hug?
He wanted to go out with a bang?
- He certainly made a splash, but he just couldn't handle the pressure.
- He definitely went out in a cloud of pink dust, that's for sure.
Crime weekly just wrapped up the series. It’s also very good… and very long. 5/6 hours.

Oh look, more distractions from convicted rapist and guaranteed pedophile Donald Trump.

We knew this

Yeah but government disaster reports are supposed to be slow. It's every i dotted, every t crossed, and the providence of every screw investigated. Oftentimes the root cause is what everyone knew already, but the report is meant to leave no doubt and to label every step of failure so that people can recognize and resolve intermediate level causes and understand the immediate causes.
- Nooo stop being reasonable I'm trying to be smug 😔
Yeah, I remember reading a past article about how the CEO was repeatedly informed about critical issues with this sub, but he didn't seem to care. At least he was among those who died. If he hadn't been aboard this sub, would he have changed his tune? All I know about this guy is that he was a scumbag CEO who ignored vital safety issues, so I'm going to guess "hell no."
- Who would think building a sub out of parts you get from like homedepot with a wirelress controller would idono not be safe...

What a heartwarming tale of billionaire hubris.

I have a dream one day this is something all billionaires will have the chance to experience!

Maybe there is a reason they are looking at space travel vs deep sea travel, space has more protections.

Can't say for sure the documentary is 100% accurate, but if it's to be believed, many smart people tried to tell this guy his stupid sub was unsafe many times, but he consistently ignored all of them, because arrogance and vanity.

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My wife is obsessed with this event and 2nd hand I've heard most of the facts on this. There were red flags everywhere. You didn't have to be a sub expert to know that was a ticking time bomb, but unfortunately the crucial data that could've saved those lives was continually buried. There's actually a lot of similarity between the Oceangate scandal and Theranos.
He fired anyone that told him it was unsafe and surrounded himself by yes men/women. This was bound to happen.
- Just imagine if someone did that to a country. That would be terrible.

Sucks that he took others lives but it should be required that every CEO be out front on the products or services they sell.

Especially when they sell self-driving cars that crash and spaceships that explode. At least Stockton Rush's hubris took care of the problem for him.

Let's stop tip toeing around the correct term....

Criminal negligence

(1) Every one is criminally negligent who

        (a) in doing anything, or
    (b) in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do, shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons.

So let's get the MAGA administration in on this one. They're doing this daily with ICE.

This is the type of enshitification we need more of.

There's documentary on Netflix showing how ignorant and self absordbed the dude was.

So self-absorbed that he imploded.

He probably didn't use enough AI in the design process.

Oddly AI probably would’ve caught the warning signs just fine. LLMs are stupid but people can be just as bad if not worse
- That guy would probably have continued regardless, even if some AI would have said: Danger hull collapse imminent!, he would just have disabled the alarm.

At least he took out a couple other multimillionaires with him. Good riddance

And a well respected historian and just a kid.
Certainly not good riddance.
- "Just a kid" from a multimillionaire family, don't tell me he wouldn't have grown up to be a piece of shit like the rest of them. Each ticket was over 200 000$, instead of spending it on some wanker's ego project they could've done some good with the money