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The founder/CEO has said that he hasn't been on a single trip where everything went to plan...

• jmount 3y ago
  Wow, everything working should be the goal- not a mere nice to have.
  • TX81Z 3y ago
    Stop being such a nerd! There’s an old boat in the water that sank because of hubris, let’s go see what we can learn! (Lesson learned the hard way)
  • ekianjo 3y ago
    > everything working should be the goal It's probably the goal, but complex endeavors mean you need to iterate to get there
    • eropple 3y ago
      The iteration has already been done. Safety rules exist because somebody has died and had it written in their blood. Failure to read the literature gets people killed. This is reckless and it is stupid and excusemaking for it has no moral grounds.
      • ekianjo 3y ago
        > The iteration has already been done. Excuse me, there are several companies operating submarines that visit the Titanic with tourists?
        • eropple 3y ago
          This is a response that, if made not in jest, is a signal of mendacity. Submersibles visited the Challenger Deep in the 1960s. We know how to build them, we know how to build them effectively, and we know many of the ways not to build them. "But we added tourists!" is not a meaningful factor here unless what you meant-but-wouldn't-say is "but we value engineered it!" in which case: yes, exactly, that's what safety rules are designed to put guardrails around.
• medellin 3y ago
  This is what happens when you take the move fast and break things culture to anything where people die when things break. Really just sad and so stupid.
  • IceHegel 3y ago
    It’s sad of course, but the early days of flight were also quite dangerous but they lead to rapid innovation and the stable industry of today. It’s a tragedy, but high risk activities are by definition going to have a few.
    • CryptoBanker 3y ago
      Unfortunately with flights you can usually at least take a good guess at what went wrong. I think we’ll be lucky if they find (and retrieve) wreckage in this case
    • ramesh31 3y ago
      >It’s sad of course, but the early days of flight were also quite dangerous but they lead to rapid innovation and the stable industry of today. And if you tried to take paid passengers on a homebuilt uncertified aircraft today you would go to jail. This isn't the early days. The challenger deep was reached over 60 years ago. We've been building submarines longer than airplanes. We know how to do this stuff safely. This was negligence.
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    • TaylorAlexander 3y ago
      Sure but at that time no one knew how to fly. Today we absolutely know how to build and test decent submersibles and there’s really no excuse for building a machine as untested as this one.
    • tjmc 3y ago
      There's calculated risk and reckless risk. Sounds like this was the latter unfortunately.
• plagiarist 3y ago
  I think the founder/CEO should be on a trip to prison for the negligence and mind bogglingly poor decision making surrounding this debacle.
  • 1270018080 3y ago
    He was on the sub.
  • chejazi 3y ago
    He's one of the people on the lost submarine
    • plagiarist 3y ago
      My mistake, I thought there was a separate party from the company piloting and the owner was not aboard.
  • kristofferR 3y ago
    He is in the submarine...