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Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To (newrepublic.com)
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Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stockton-rush-oceangate-submarine-titanic-b2361176.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, Oh wow.

After reading all the articles,
about how it was clear to the company that the sub was an obvious deathtrap,
im genuinely supprised the ceo was dumb / bold enough to actually board it himself.

Thats an almost biblical level of
"fuck around and find out"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

one thing we've learned about most billionaires is they arent very smart and surround themselves completely with 'yes people'. And they also seem to have almost no ability to assess risk, like buying business that they personally know almost nothing about, like twitter and submarines.