This guy was just an absolute fountain of unfortunate quotes
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This guy was just an absolute fountain of unfortunate quotes
‘No-One Is Dying’ Said OceanGate Boss While Arguing Over Doomed Titan Sub’s Safety
Stockton Rush called the Titan missions to the Titanic “one of the safest things I will ever do” in conversations unearthed by a probe into the sub’s implosion
Jalopnik (jalopnik.com)
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FediThing 🏳️🌈replied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Why are we letting owners get away with this on craft that take passengers? Is there no mechanism to protect engineers who speak out?
(He claimed it was a scientific expedition of specialists but the enquiry made clear it was just a passenger service for wealthy people.)
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@jalefkowit he said "dy-ing". The implosion was so fast and violent they went from Alive to Dead so fast that they didn't have a point in between.
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@jhooper Schrödinger’s Submersible
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
He died the way he lived: being a dumbass
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@FediThing @jalefkowit
I had to laugh at the time; when the tourists were described in articles as "mission specialists", I suspected the company was setting up to claim they weren't passengers. -
@silvermoon82 @FediThing I think it was half marketing and half liability avoidance. The rich passengers wanted to pretend they were Citizen Scientists, not just, you know, rich passengers.
But I'm sure they also had hopes for it on the liability-avoidance front too
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit He certainly didn't know anything about tempting fate.
"And for my next trick, I will enter a tiny steel cannister where I will accelerate far beneath to the crushing depths. I will not die. I will be as safe as if I was in my mother's arms. Nothing bad is going to happen, there will be no headlines tomorrow proclaiming my death, I will in fact return safe and sound. In fact, I am so certain I will not die that I am not giving the password to my 1Password account to my wife in case of my death, because that will not happen, it is absolutely impossible, may God strike me dead if I'm lying."