My favorite part was the qualified engineer sending him the stress curve graph with the likely crush depth zone marked with literal skull and crossbones and he apparently just ignored it and chose to exceed those depths anyway.
*hits the projected crush depth and doesn’t crush*
“HA I knew it was fine!”
*descends 12 more feet*
*implodes*
You think it was like a "glug!’ sound? Or maybe more like a pop or a clap sound?
I love how the AI art understands that there should be more stuff in a sub. There’s pipes and wires in that image, where on the now crushed sub, it was a smooth room into which they were bolted. Even the AI image controller has a wire on it.
In January 2018, Lochridge sent Rush a quality-control inspection report detailing 27 issues with the vehicle, from questionable O-ring seals on the domes and missing bolts to flammable materials and more concerns about its carbon-fiber hull. Rush fired him the next day. (Although Lochridge later made a whistleblower report to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about Titan, Rush sued him for breach of contract. The settlement of that lawsuit resulted in Lochridge dropping his complaint, paying OceanGate nearly $10,000, and signing an NDA. Lochridge did not respond to WIRED.)
Ugh
You can get sued for putting in a osha complaint? Doesn’t that defeat like the entire purpose of osha?
How can you hear “o-ring issue” and not shit your pants? Did we learn nothing from Challenger?
I’m not a gastroenterologist, but I do believe when you have an o-ring issue you specifically do shit your pants.
I hope he feels it was worth the trouble and the $10k to try to do the right thing and reveal the corruption in the system.
i hope he at least feels vindicated by what happened
