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James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it imploded, suggesting that they were aware the hull was starting to fail.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Hubris is the word.

The CEO Stockton Rush, just off the top of my head:

Fired his own director of marine operations for formally reporting “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns". These included that the viewport was only rated to 1,300 meters, the carbon fiber hull had flaws which gave it the potential to fail, and that the hull integrity monitoring systems installed in response "might only provide 'milliseconds' of warning before a catastrophic implosion".
Refused to submit to an industry certification process for the sub, despite being warned in an open letter with dozens of signatories that failing to do so risked "negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)".
Denounced the laws regulating submarine tourism as having "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation".

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Denounced the laws regulating submarine tourism as having “needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation”.

He was a consistent Republican donor, apparently, so probably a devotee of the "regulations are holding back innovation" religion. In other words, "I want to cut costs and make more profit, so I'd rather risk people's lives than spend money to protect them."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He died like he lived, shirking safety in the name of commercialization.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

he never thought the leopards would eat his own face.

or he never thought his sub would be his coffin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Like that flat earther that made a steam powered rocket (not that high) to try and prove the earth is flat via that (somehow?) Ended up going downwards very fast with nothing stopping him except the solid Earth.

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