They did dozens of successful trips to the Titanic, but for some reason people only wanna talk about the time they accidentally cooked and pancaked the CEO
an old irishman shuffles into a bar at sundown with his eyes low and his head down
the bartender says “ay, billy! whats the matter. you seem troubled”
billy responds with "you see this bar we’re standing in. I built it with me own hands! but they don’t call me the bar builder, no!
and the bridge everyone uses to cross the river to get to the market, i built that that with me own hands too! but do the call me the bridge builder? no, they do not.
and the wall that protects our city, i built that with me own hands too! and they don’t call me the wall builder neither.
I know you’re being facetious, but I just wanted to point out that out of however many dives, only something like four of those missions were successful 😬
As someone who isn’t out in nature 1) purporting that I can bring you to the titanic with 2) my home made submarine that 3) I refused industry advice to build, I don’t see how any of our interactions with subs somehow makes this dude less of an idiot.
Conversely, how many billionaires have you managed to kill because your home made sub, constructed from left over aerospace materials and Camping World gadgets, imploded?
The Titanic fanously sank on its maiden voyage, so that’s a little different. The Titan submersible was successful for hundreds of dives before the implosion, which I’m sure gave the team a false sense of security and ultimately led them to ignore all the red flags.
The Titan imploded on it’s 14th commercial dive. Also, during testing the hull was damaged by pressure cycling and had to be repaired or replaced. OceanGate claimed at one point the Titan had done ~50 test dives, but not all at the depth of Titanic. IMHO, the false sense of security was born of ignorance.
Not hundreds, that person was incorrect. Their entire fleet of 3 subs had done around 200 dives total, so none of those 3 subs has done hundreds of dives. Depending on which source you read, the Titan had been to the Titanic between 3 and 14 times prior to the accident. It seems even the journalists reporting on the story couldn’t get solid facts out of OceanGate.
Also, Titan was the only sub they actually designed and built.
Their first two subs were purchased. They didn’t design them, they didn’t build them.
They used their first sub pretty much as it was. They used their second sub as a kind of trial platform to develop some of the systems that they later used on Titan - stuff like the game controller for steering the sub, for example.
End of an era.
They did dozens of successful trips to the Titanic, but for some reason people only wanna talk about the time they accidentally cooked and pancaked the CEO
“You fuck a goat one time”
an old irishman shuffles into a bar at sundown with his eyes low and his head down
the bartender says “ay, billy! whats the matter. you seem troubled”
billy responds with "you see this bar we’re standing in. I built it with me own hands! but they don’t call me the bar builder, no!
and the bridge everyone uses to cross the river to get to the market, i built that that with me own hands too! but do the call me the bridge builder? no, they do not.
and the wall that protects our city, i built that with me own hands too! and they don’t call me the wall builder neither.
BUT YOU FUCK ONE GOAT!..
I know you’re being facetious, but I just wanted to point out that out of however many dives, only something like four of those missions were successful 😬
How many of your dives to the Titanic with a payload of human flesh worth millions of dollar were successful?
Edit; Doods, you really took this serious??
As someone who isn’t out in nature 1) purporting that I can bring you to the titanic with 2) my home made submarine that 3) I refused industry advice to build, I don’t see how any of our interactions with subs somehow makes this dude less of an idiot.
Conversely, how many billionaires have you managed to kill because your home made sub, constructed from left over aerospace materials and Camping World gadgets, imploded?
We should all have something to aspire to.
Well it’s the same with literally everything No one is talking about Indonesia flight 1-151
Crazy, right?
Somewhat of a similar fate as the White Star Line. Although nobody is going to merge with these guys.
The Titanic fanously sank on its maiden voyage, so that’s a little different. The Titan submersible was successful for hundreds of dives before the implosion, which I’m sure gave the team a false sense of security and ultimately led them to ignore all the red flags.
The Titan imploded on it’s 14th commercial dive. Also, during testing the hull was damaged by pressure cycling and had to be repaired or replaced. OceanGate claimed at one point the Titan had done ~50 test dives, but not all at the depth of Titanic. IMHO, the false sense of security was born of ignorance.
Hundreds? I thought it was more on the order of dozens, and not many dozens at that.
Not hundreds, that person was incorrect. Their entire fleet of 3 subs had done around 200 dives total, so none of those 3 subs has done hundreds of dives. Depending on which source you read, the Titan had been to the Titanic between 3 and 14 times prior to the accident. It seems even the journalists reporting on the story couldn’t get solid facts out of OceanGate.
Also, Titan was the only sub they actually designed and built.
Their first two subs were purchased. They didn’t design them, they didn’t build them.
They used their first sub pretty much as it was. They used their second sub as a kind of trial platform to develop some of the systems that they later used on Titan - stuff like the game controller for steering the sub, for example.
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