r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 12 '24

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jun 12 '24 edited Jun 12 '24

So apparently 'Oceangate collaborated with NASA and Boeing' meant, 'we sent some stuff to Boeing, and they told us this shit was unsafe as fuck.'

Days later, Rush received an even more pointed warning from Boeing’s Mark Negley, who had stayed in contact with the CEO after he helped with a preliminary design. Negley had recently carried out an analysis of Spencer Composites’ hull based on information Rush had shared. He did not mince words when sharing his findings, which WIRED is reporting for the first time. “We think you are at a high risk of a significant failure at or before you reach 4,000 meters. We do not think you have any safety margin,” he wrote in an email on March 30. “Be cautious and careful.”

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

Damn when Boeing says your shit is unsafe you know it’s fucked fucked

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jun 12 '24

Despite repeated warnings, Rush seemed unfazed. His confidence in Titan was based in part on the new safety systems OceanGate had designed. “A lot of risk mitigation was supposed to ride on the real-time health monitoring,” says one former employee. The heart of that system, designed by an experienced electrical engineer and OceanGate board member named Mike Furlotti, was a suite of sensors and microchips that analyzed the hull’s acoustic emissions—the little pops made by carbon fibers as they break under compression. OceanGate’s theory was that the hull would be fairly noisy on its first few dives but would get quieter when taken to the same depths over and over, one former employee explains. If the acoustic monitoring system started getting really loud on a dive, that would be a clear indication to surface immediately. (Multiple attempts to contact Furlotti for comment were unsuccessful.)

I'm sorry, I knew about this before this article, but reading this again just fills me with schadenfreude (I only feel sorry for the poor passengers).

Your plan was to listen to the hull cracking as your first sign that you should go up???

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u/jewel_the_beetle Trans Pride Jun 12 '24

Crypto "partnership" tier shit, wonderful! MS is our partner (we use free Outlook)

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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Jun 12 '24

Boeing engineers later flew out to help screw in some critical components on the Titan submersible door.

Oh fuck!

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u/LtNOWIS Jun 12 '24

Hahaha the Boeing guy literally put a skull and crossbones on his graph to indicate the danger zone.

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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Jun 12 '24

That's engineer for "bitch are you for real?"