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AP News: A search is underway for missing submarine that takes people to see Titanic (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by philz@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] StringTheory@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate

This adds to the picture of utter recklessness.

At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department—the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (“PVHO”) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.

[–] pelotron@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

So they wanted to die. Got it.

[–] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What the actual fuck. They built a literal deathtrap

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

They said it was unsinkable!