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The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen” (www.newyorker.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A completely brutal dissection of all of the failings of Stockton Rush, his hubris and those at OceanGate who were complicit in his insanity. So many times people raised warnings about this thing and instead of heeding them, the response was to sue the whistle-blower, who due to the way the US courts are structured (that is to say incredibly skewed toward the wealthy), had no choice but to withdraw his complaint.