The more I read about this, the more it (sadly) reminds me of a bungie jumping accident years ago: the bungie cable contained many separate strands, all ending

The more I read about this, the more it (sadly) reminds me of a bungie jumping accident years ago: the bungie cable contained many separate strands, all ending in loops. The habit of the operators was to hold all the loops together and pass a large carabiner through the bundle, catching a number of the loops. Until one time they caught few enough (none? I remember "none," but that seems absurd) that the whole thing failed, and the jumper fell straight to their death. Going down in the ocean to a depth far deeper than any military submarine goes -- I don't see any info online, but I wonder if fewer people have been as deep as the Titanic than have reached Earth orbit -- in something that apparently was put together and vetted by effectively hobbyists seems the pinnacle of lunacy. Apologies to the missing for saying it.