They should be nominated for this year's Darwin Award. I feel sorry for their families, whether it was a scam or apocalypse.

Wealthy people that have no real idea how to use their money wisely , but say look at me Im doing this.
Becoming crab food instantly.

The Carbon Fiber construction suggests to me instant catastrophic structural failure.
CF is incredibly rigid.....until it’s not. Then it shatters. There’s minimal deformation.
But hey.....I’m just a 50 year old White Guy. What do I know?
Apparently more than a spoon in the mouth former aerospace engineer named Rush.
CF is a terrible material choice for that application. But I’m sure it was much cheaper than HY80. On the plus side CF is very light. So there is that. If weight was a huge concern. But I’m finding it hard to justify that benefit in this application.
The most ingenious submersible ever invented was Trieste. Absolutely jaw dropping in it’s simplicity and functionality.

You Got That Right!
It’s only a matter of time.

Me dino stands corrected. That pertinent fact had eluded me completely. Listened to 3 different TV talking heads last night and no one brought that up.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/stockto...

I would have bought the 'too many people in on it' before the 2020 election, but now I'm not so sure??

Interesting theory, but I kind of doubt it. Too many people would have to be in on it, who could spill the beans after the fact.
I think they were in the sub, it couldn't handle the pressure at some point and came apart, catastrophically making trash out of the sub and the inhabitants ( I wonder if the game controller survived). It happened when they lost contact with the mother ship, basically in close proximity to the titanic wreck.

I am not sure exactly how the events would unfold. ultimately once the 6000 psi was applied to the peoples bodies, they would be squashed into a fraction of their current size. As to the hull, the rush of 6000 psi water would probably create some sort of water hammer effect inside the sub and blow it apart. In any event, its not going to be some sort of slow internal pressurization thing resulting in squeezing of life out of the occupants and just s lot of water inside the sub but no breakup.

Of course the CEO was IN the sub at the time of the implosion and is dead as a doornail. He is free of liability of course, but his company will be no more within a short time.

The CEO WAS the captain and pilot. I think it will come out that it was the hull that came apart in the area above the actual sea floor. we will c hor it comes out. Looking at the time the dive started and when they lost contact, compared with the time the navy hears the explosion sonar anomaly will tell a lot.

It not an issue of karma. Its pressure and construction and perhaps minute cracks in the materials that gave way.

saw an interview on youtube with josh Gates that does an exploration/adventure mystery show on history channel or maybe TLC.....I never liked the guy because he always seemed overdramatic in his show getting over the top excited about ridiculously insignificant finds.....He was given a demo ride and offered a full trip to the Titanic...which would have been fabulous for his show. He said that after they experienced 3 system failures in the check ride, he refused to go on the thing again and missed out on a fabulous opportunity to do a show on it,. He was completely different than when he is on his show. I always thought the guy was a nit wit....but apparently this was just an affectation on his part to introduce drama for his shows. He seemed very sharp and pragmatic on that interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7gy3...

So who was it that blew up the gas pipeline?
Same culprit needed a distraction this week.
Deep state has centuries of experience blowing things up.

While all this was going on, we were driving 900 miles, and I refuse to allow satellite radio in my vehicle. So....I know very little, but sounds like a nice, big SNAFU to keep everyone's attention off Hunter and his legal woes.

Looks like it worked for the most part, too.

Laughing...you may be right about your B option. I've seen a number of articles where former employees and former potential clients voiced everything from trepidations to serious safety concerns about that thing.

With age comes wisdom. The older i get the more i wonder how I made it to my age. And the more i appreciate my Dad and his work ethic and accomplishments. He was an Annapolis grad (with honors) and would have taken one look at the sub and said - not on my watch!

In pressures around 6,000 PSI, any bodies down there would be about the size of a Barbi Doll. A loss of interior pressure would result in the tube being crushed to the size of a tuna can. Prayers for the families but those who adventure to the bottom of the sea, top of the mountains and out of our earth's atmosphere no they are playing with death.

Yesterday me dino learned that those who sign the OceanGate suicide sub mission liability waiver reads some form of a "you may get killed way, way down there" in three places on the first page.
Well, hey, what the hell? Now CEO Stockton Rush remains free of liability to go back to the good ole' drawing board to design a sub that "builds back better." Blub! Blub!

You sure might be on to something...did anyone see pictures like when they shoot huge sums of money into the atmosphere....those "lost" people walking into the little sub...I have not seen any such pictures one way to get out of debt.

They can deny survival of the fittest but denial does not preclude it being a law, and it appears that nature enforced the law.

He probably couldn't hire any old white dudes, because A. They would want a salary commensurate with their experience and B. They probably all looked at his contraption and knew enough to say "hell no".

Something doesn't smell right. Now I read that they detected an implosion shortly after contact was lost...??? Some of the so-called facts and stories just don't add up. I hope some old white 50+ something journalist starts ' following the money trail"....

Like I needed another reason NOT to fly! Planning my next cross-country road trip now ...
:-)

This is a theory that's been bothering me for quite a while. Let's trash all the 'old' people...they've outlived their usefulness. If you believe that BS I'll sell you a bridge. Some people still have a brain
after 50, 60, 70, even 80! And my Aunt Jodie chastised me when she was 104! NB

Coming to a jetliner cockpit near you.

I could see that. Add in whatever insurance there may have been, and it might actually work.