http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion
I'm looking for the names of the female midget engineers, crew, and passengers who participated in the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster but it seems that there weren't any.
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The nitwit designers and engineers were all male. The nitwit passengers, all of whom signed waivers acknowledging flaws and shortcomings in the vessel, were all male. How can that possibly be?!?!??
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From wikipedia:
"OceanGate was a private company, initiated in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein." ...
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"Rush told the Travel Weekly editor-in-chief that the carbon fibre had been sourced at a discount from Boeing because it was too old for use in the company's airplanes. Boeing stated they have no records of any sale to Rush or to OceanGate. OceanGate had initially not sought certification for Titan, arguing that excessive safety protocols hindered innovation. Lloyd's Register, a ship classification society, refused OceanGate's request to class the vessel in 2019." ...
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"OceanGate claimed on its website as of 2023 that Titan was "designed and engineered by OceanGate Inc. in collaboration [with] experts from NASA, Boeing, and the University of Washington" (UW). ... [However ...] It was designed and developed originally in partnership with UW and Boeing, both of which put forth numerous design recommendations and rigorous testing requirements, ****which Rush ignored,**** despite prior tests at lower depths resulting in implosions at UW's lab. The partnerships dissolved as Rush refused to work within quality standards."
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"Because Titan operated in international waters and did not carry passengers from a port, it was not subject to safety regulations. The vessel was not certified as seaworthy by any regulatory agency or third-party organization. ... Rush is described as having said that the U.S. Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993 "****needlessly**** prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation". In a 2022 interview, Rush told CBS News, "At some point, safety just is pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. ... "I've broken some rules to make [Titan]. I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fibre and titanium, ****there's a rule you don't do that. Well, I did."**** ...
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"In 2018, OceanGate's director of marine operations, David Lochridge, composed a report documenting safety concerns he had about Titan. In court documents, Lochridge said that he had urged the company to have Titan assessed and certified by the American Bureau of Shipping, but OceanGate had refused to do so. ... OceanGate said that Lochridge, who was not an engineer, had refused to accept safety approvals from OceanGate's engineering team and that the company's evaluation of Titan's hull was stronger than any kind of third-party evaluation Lochridge thought necessary. OceanGate sued Lochridge for allegedly breaching his confidentiality contract and making fraudulent statements. Lochridge counter-sued, stating that his employment had been wrongfully terminated as a whistleblower for stating concerns about Titan's ability to operate safely." ...
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"Later in 2018, a group organized by William Kohnen, the chair of the Submarine Group of the Marine Technology Society, drafted a letter to Rush expressing "unanimous concern regarding the development of 'TITAN' and the planned Titanic Expedition", indicating that the "current experimental approach ... could result in ****negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic)**** that would have serious consequences for everyone in the industry". The letter said that OceanGate's marketing of the Titan was ***misleading*** because it claimed that the submersible would meet or exceed the safety standards of classification society DNV, even though the company had no plans to have the craft certified formally by the society." ...
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"In March 2018, one of Boeing's engineers involved in the preliminary designs, Mark Negley, carried out an analysis of the hull and emailed Rush directly stating, "We think you are at high risk of a significant failure at or before you reach 4,000 meters. We do not think you have any safety margin." He included a graph of the strain of the design with a skull and crossbones at a red line of 4,000 meters." ...
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I still can't find any mention of female midgets (or any females) responsible for or involved with the OceanGate catastrophe. Has there been an error in the investigations and reporting?
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Space flight, deep dives, etc. are all risky, LIFE AND DEATH risky, ventures. I hope that all goes well.
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Engineers warned NASA not to launch the Challenger Space Shuttle in the cold temperature. Reagan wanted to talk about the Space Shuttle in his SOTU address on the night of Jan 28 so the engineers were overruled by politicians. Challenger blew up during launch on Jan 28 and the SOTU address was postponed.
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(IMO, MANNED missions to Mars are many decades premature.)
Posted By: willywonka4u
This whole thing sounds just like those nitwits who tried to see the wreckage of the Titanic and instead just became a part of the wreckage themselves.
