"The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal" - fantastic Vanity Fair article that even features a "Heated Gaming Moment" involving the Mad Catz controller!

[Spork3245]

Just now, Chris- said:

Very sad @b_m_b_m_b_m is on sabbatical because this topic combines his two favorite things.

 

Lauren Boebert got smashed on the sub?

[Jason]

2 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Lauren Boebert got smashed on the sub?

 

Wouldn't that make him sad, since it means he no longer has a shot?

[Spork3245]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Wouldn't that make him sad, since it means he no longer has a shot?

 

I assumed he did the smashing.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

21 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

 

I assumed he did the smashing.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

This is a FANTASTIC Vanity Fair article about the beliefs and behavior of Stockton Rush which predictably led to him and the passengers being turned into biological paste:

 

The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair

WWW.VANITYFAIR.COM

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To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey.

 

 

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I hope they watched the abyss with awe through their viewport, because I’d like to think their last sights were magnificent ones.

 

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As the world now knows, Stockton Rush touted himself as a maverick, a disrupter, a breaker of rules. So far out on the visionary curve that, for him, safety regulations were mere suggestions. “If you’re not breaking things, you’re not innovating,” he declared at the 2022 GeekWire Summit. “If you’re operating within a known environment, as most submersible manufacturers do, they don’t break things. To me, the more stuff you’ve broken, the more innovative you’ve been.”

 

In a culture that has adopted the ridiculous mantra “move fast and break things,” that type of arrogance can get a person far. But in the deep ocean, the price of admission is humility—and it’s nonnegotiable. The abyss doesn’t care if you went to Princeton, or that your ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. If you want to go down into her world, she sets the rules.

 

And her rules are strict, befitting the gravitas of the realm. To descend into the ocean’s abyssal zone—the waters from 10,000 to 20,000 feet—is a serious affair, and because of the annihilating pressures, far more challenging than rocketing into space. The subs that dive into this realm (there aren’t many) are tested and tested and tested. Every component is checked for flaws in a pressure chamber and checked again—and every step of this process is certified by an independent marine classification society. This assurance of safety is known as “classing” a sub. Deep-sea submersibles are constructed of the strongest and most predictable materials, as determined by the laws of physics.

 

In the abyss, that means passengers typically sit inside a titanium (or steel) pressure hull, forged into a perfect sphere—the only shape that distributes pressure symmetrically. That means adding crush-resistant syntactic foam around the sphere for buoyancy and protection, to offset the weight of the titanium. That means redundancy upon redundancy, with no single point of failure. It means a safety plan, a rescue plan, an acute situational awareness at all times.

 

It means respect for the forces in the deep ocean. Which Stockton Rush didn’t have.

 

 

Hell, this story even features a "Heated Gaming Moment" involving the Mad Catz controller!

 

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As chief pilot and the person responsible for operational safety, Lochridge had created a dive plan that included protocols for how to approach the wreck. Any entanglement hazard demands caution and vigilance: touching down at least 50 meters away and surveying the site before coming any closer. Rush disregarded these safety instructions. He landed too close, got tangled in the current, managed to wedge the sub beneath the Andrea Doria’s crumbling bow, and descended into a full-blown panic. Lochridge tried to take the helm, but Rush had refused to let him, melting down for over an hour until finally one of the clients shrieked, “Give him the fucking controller!” At which point Rush hurled the controller, a video-game joystick, at Lochridge’s head. Lochridge freed the sub in 15 minutes.

 

[Reputator]

Man, that really shows the whole thing was pure cause and effect. I want to say "well anyone that irresponsible doesn't deserve to live", but that's really missing the mark. It should be "anyone that irresponsible has no HOPE of living".

[Keyser_Soze]

Seems like the major takeaway from the article is carbon fiber is no bueno.

[finaljedi]

I wish they'd cut it out with "move fast and break things".  The companies that coined that shit were trying to get you to look at your feed more or buy more HDMI cables.  But you get these other psychos who use it to test out their own ego driven bullshit on unsuspecting people who may get run over by a self driving car or crushed at the bottom of the sea.

[GeneticBlueprint]

45 minutes ago, finaljedi said:

I wish they'd cut it out with "move fast and break things".  The companies that coined that shit were trying to get you to look at your feed more or buy more HDMI cables.  But you get these other psychos who use it to test out their own ego driven bullshit on unsuspecting people who may get run over by a self driving car or crushed at the bottom of the sea.

Common tech industry saying. Facebook did that and created a monster. My company does it and we’re constantly fixing bugs that never would have been there with a proper dev process. 

[chakoo]

Move fast and break things is only a valid solution when your a pre seed startup looking for product market fit. One you hit seed you need to cut that shit out and build a proper foundation for the future 

[Kal-El814]

18 minutes ago, chakoo said:

Move fast and break things is only a valid solution when your a pre seed startup looking for product market fit. One you hit seed you need to cut that shit out and build a proper foundation for the future 

 

Yeah, I was going to say that it's fine when you're in a concept or feasibility stage and trying to see if there's any juice to be had from the squeeze, You should move past that mentality if you're trying to hit MVP, even.

[Air_Delivery]

7 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

 

 

Hell, this story even features a "Heated Gaming Moment" involving the Mad Catz controller!

 

 

Hey I'm still using my Mad Catz SF4 arcade stick I bought in 2009! That thing is built like a tank (although its probaby due to the Sanwa components. 

[Brick]

10 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

This is a FANTASTIC Vanity Fair article about the beliefs and behavior of Stockton Rush which predictably led to him and the passengers being turned into biological paste:

 

The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal | Vanity Fair

WWW.VANITYFAIR.COM

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To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey.

 

 

 

 

Hell, this story even features a "Heated Gaming Moment" involving the Mad Catz controller!

 

 

 

This really was a fantastic read, and just makes my blood boil in hatred at this foolish, arrogant man-child; I bet Stockton Rush would have gotten along really well with Musk.

 

I said it before, but I really hope there was a moment, however brief, before the implosion that he realized he fucked up big time, and was full of regret at not listening to all the warnings in his final moments. This idiot caused the death of four innocent people. Fuck him. Fuck all prideful jackasses like him. I truly wish that instead there had been a near catastrophic failure that caused the other passengers to sue when they got out, and every warning he was given was proven right, and instead he went bankrupt and if possible some sort of criminal charge. Something to make him realize that everyone who doubted him was actually right. Given some of the passed failed voyages though maybe not if those weren't enough.

 

Reap what you fucking sow.

[Keyser_Soze]

1 hour ago, Brick said:

This really was a fantastic read, and just makes my blood boil in hatred at this foolish, arrogant man-child; I bet Stockton Rush would have gotten along really well with Musk.

 

Not good enough to get him on the sub though.

[Air_Delivery]

He was literally the Ed Nortons character from Glass Onion

 

 

[Brick]

I still need to watch Glass Onion.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

For those interested, the author of the Vanity Fair article just published a book about explorations of the deep ocean:

 

The Underworld by Susan Casey: 9780385545570 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

WWW.PENGUINRANDOMHOUSE.COM

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets...

 

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For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question: What’s down there? Unable to answer this for centuries, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. But now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface, and we are beginning to understand this strange and exotic underworld:  A place of soaring mountains, smoldering volcanoes, and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high, where tectonic plates collide and separate, and extraordinary life forms operate under different rules. Far from a dark void, the deep is a vibrant realm that’s home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long and ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium—among countless other marvels.

 

Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet, interviewing the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers who are searching for knowledge in this vast unseen realm. She takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration, from the myths and legends of the ancient world to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom, to the first intrepid bathysphere pilots, to the scientists who are just beginning to understand the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the quadrillions of creatures who live in realms long thought to be devoid of life.

 

Throughout this journey, she learned how vital the deep is to the future of the planet, and how urgent it is that we understand it in a time of increasing threats from climate change, industrial fishing, pollution, and the mining companies that are also exploring its depths. The Underworld is Susan Casey’s most beautiful and thrilling book yet, a gorgeous evocation of the natural world and a powerful call to arms.