The US Coast Guard has determined the implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible that killed all five people on board was "preventable" ...
Two years after passengers hoping for a glimpse of the Titanic wreckage died in the Titan submersible implosion, the Coast Guard issued a scathing report, saying the tragedy shouldn't have happened.
-- NPR (@npr.org) Aug 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Titan's designers remind me of the non-engineer idiots who designed the world's tallest water slide.
The Boy Who Was Decapitated While Riding A Faulty WaterslideAlso funny that the kid's father is a small government Republican who suddenly saw a need for regulating amusement park rides after his kid lost his head.
Further investigation also found a disturbing lack of qualifications on the part of ride designer Jeff Henry. Henry was a high school dropout with no education in engineering.
When creating the slide, Henry and Schooley, who also had little experience in engineering, used "crude trial-and-error" methods to draw up plans for the slide.
"If we actually knew how to do this and it could be done that easily, it wouldn't be that spectacular," court documents reported Schooley stating.
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