22 Jun 2023

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OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for ‘Catastrophic’ Problems With Titanic Mission:

In an unsigned 2019 blog post titled “Why Isn’t Titan Classed?” [which timed out when I tried to open it]…OceanGate said…“Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation.”

“There hasn’t been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years,” he [Stockton Rush] told Smithsonian magazine in a profile published in 2019. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/worlds-first-deep-diving-submarine-plans-tourists-see-titanic-180972179/] “It’s obscenely safe because they have all these regulations.”

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