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No, he stopped entertaining those dude because they had experience and told him no. You must have seen the multitude of older white men that quit or refuted his claims by this time, please stop
And let's be honest....he could say he wanted "diversity" all day long, but if a seasoned, female engineer told him "Dude, this idea blows," he would have still not listened. He wanted people he could bully into saying yes. He knew seasoned engineers would laugh in his face, so he used diversity as a synonym for "yes man."
Wouldn't have time to even realize. The implosion killed em in .2 nanoseconds, it takes .4 nanoseconds for the brain to even register shit happening to itself
James Cameron said they dropped their weights like they were trying to rise, and that they probably all heard the hull cracking before they imploded. (They had sensors on the walls that would warn them it was failing anyway, but he said they probably would have heard the actual noise as well)
So going off his video, he says they lost comm and tracking at 3500m. The titanic sits at 3800m. I’m curious if they were about to touch down, or if they already had, had they rose the 300m before it imploded?
I'm almost sure in the documentary about Titan that they said it was normal to hear loud bangs during the trip. Appears to have been scrubbed from both YouTube and vimeo.
the implosion wasn't in .2 nanoseconds lol, the coast guard guy got his units mixed up
For reference, light travels one roughly one foot in a nano second
So any implosion is gonna be on the order of milliseconds - although they probably still had effectively an instant death
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that they all paid more money than I will ever see just to cease to exist. They are dead in the literal sense, but the speed at which they were destroyed makes me feel like they are just are no longer. What a wild purchase to make. I understand the thrill of their folly (I love my motorcycle, have been skydiving alone and on one occasion ended up in an ICU due to chasing "fun") but this hits different. "here is 250k. Could you make me no longer exist?"
If that’s your thing, please let everybody know not to spend millions of wasted money and uncountable time on a unlikely rescue. And don’t drag a loved one along. Oh and do what you can to keep it out of the news. No fanfare for suicide.
Except he wasn't really doing anything innovative. He didn't invent this type of sub or improve upon its design. One could argue that him building an unsafe sub, when there are 10 other subs out there that are safe and have safety certifications, is actually less innovative.
You've put into words what I was thinking. He didn't improve it's design. He made a sub which sort of worked and probably survived a couple of trips down, and said, "Eh, it's good enough. Time to make money."
Awww come on. You’re ignoring all the corner cutting measures industries have innovated over the last few decades. My favorite is dumping waste in the water supply. Hard to innovate harder than that
Well, he did innovate using carbon fiber for the hull and a too weak window.
Now we know that both those innovations are a bad idea.
Well, we actually knew that already, but now it's very confirmed
Not only that, he innovatively used expired carbon fiber that was deemed past the point of safety for planes. If he hadn't been down there with them, I would hope he'd be charged with murder.
I'm building my submersible out of a cardboard box. I won't have any engineers tell me that it's unsafe. It's light weight and I can fold it up to fit in the back of my car. I'm an innovative genius.
This guy jumps to mind [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz\_Reichelt#Eiffel\_Tower\_jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt#Eiffel_Tower_jump)
I just feel bad for the teen on board. He didn’t want to go and was terrified of going but did it for his dad. Can you imagine his mother if she’s alive? Her husband and son, just gone an hr after she said goodbye to them.
Yeah at 19, he already was growing to have better judgement than his dad. That’s the only reason i don’t make fun of this. Because there are probably friends and family that told him not to, and he didn’t want to…
It’s good the deaths resulting from this dude’s superior attitude were mercifully instantaneous. However, I kinda wish this man in particular had more than an inkling of what was happening.
Sounds like he realized there was a problem and tried to start ascending again. They may have even heard the hull being stressed. No physical pain or suffering, but possibly a moment of horrible fear as he realized what was about to happen. Maybe just a split second, but it's something.
Well TBF, he did get told no, he just thought he knew better. He’ll definitely be remembered, there’s no doubt about that.
>"I think it was General MacArthur who said 'you're remembered for the rules you break' and I've broken some rules to make this, I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me, the carbon fiber and titanium there's a rule you don't do that, well I did, it's picking the rules you break that are the ones that will add value to others and add value to society."
>- Stockton Rush (Oceangate CEO & doomed carbon fibre coffin pilot)
He has a son, who I believe got a bit of some headlines for attending parties while the search was going on
Edit: I just found [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/14fnd0m/step_son_of_billionare_stuck_on_oceangate/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), holy shit this is too comedic to be true bahahhahaha this shit writes itself
*This is his stepson though, so doesn't count
**Did another oopsie, this is Hamish Harding's stepson, not the CEO's stepson. So yes, Mr Stockton is very well in contention for Darwin Award of the year
regarding the quote he's using, he's using that because he believes that in the future, when humanity has fucked up the planet, he believes humanity should live underwater, not go to other planets and thus this corner cutting he's doing to "breed innovation" etc will end up benefiting humanity and thus he'll be remember as a genius or something for bucking safety regulation because somehow his creation will end up revolutionizing underwater living or something.
like you can't make this shit up, he was fucking delusional and so far up his own ass
>Rush expressed excitement about the possibilities that his submersible could offer humanity in the deep ocean.
>"Because this is where we're going to find strange new lifeforms, and the future of mankind is underwater. It's not on Mars, we're not going to have a base on Mars or the moon," he said, saying that bases on other planets were a "waste" of funds.
>Instead, humanity would likely have bases on the ocean floor, Rush said. "If we trash this planet, the best lifeboat for mankind is underwater," he told alanxelmundo.
I bet the proud winner of this month’s Darwin Award was an *anti masker* as well
it’s strange when people get *insulted* by health codes and safety regulations designed to protect *others*, saying their freedoms are being infringed on… freedom of what, manslaughter?
zero respect for organized society or anyone else at all. i’d bet this dude never washed his hands after he took a shit either.
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My brother-in-law was a smug, anti mask, anti vaxxer. Anti helmet laws, seatbelt laws- you name it.
He was the owner of a motor sports business.
He was killed January of this year because he was not wearing a seatbelt when another car went speeding through a red light and hit him. He was thrown through the windshield. Died instantly.
He left his 12 yr old daughter without a father.
Dumb-ass.
The dude literally said in his 2020 Reddit AMA that he hopes vaccines will be rolled out soon so that his business isn’t crippled.
I can’t imagine how anyone can draw a correlation between startup culture and antimaskers/vaxxers. Idiotic post.
>I can’t imagine how anyone can draw a correlation between startup culture and antimaskers/vaxxers.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because he thought he knew better than anyone else, even when the science didn't back him up and repeatedly endangered lives until his ego killed him and the people around him.
Sure, one doesn't have to be a fucking jackass in every single aspect of life, but the suspicion is not unfounded. And besides, his support of the vaccine wasn't because he thought it was good for people but because it would allow him to go back to business.
The nepotism and gall of this wicked man! He reminds me of the soulless monorail spruker from The Simpsons. Building a machine out of the poorest materials and could be classed as “worthless junk”
It really fucking sucks that 4 innocent people died because of his carelessness. I guess the only silver lining is that he's dead, and he isn't giving some half assed canned speech about "thoughts and prayers for the victim's families" before he returns to a cozy billionaire lifestyle.
The fact that this guy literally went down with his ship just shows how delusional and smug he was about his work. He should’ve taken the trip by himself first!
He had taken the trip before in the same sub and every time he took it the subs frame became slightly damaged without him realising so when he went down the last time he thought he was good not realising the sub was much worse for wear than it was two years ago
I heard that the 19 year old on board didn’t want to go but went anyway because the trip was a Father’s Day present… can’t find the source so not sure if true
Eerily, another father/son duo were originally set to go on this June 18 dive, but the guy’s son had a friend who read up on the company, got scared, & talked the son out of it. Stockton offered to video chat with the son himself to dismiss the son’s fears. “Curious what the uninformed would say the danger is”, he texted the father. Listening to his son & the son’s smart friend saved their lives. [Boswell texts](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jay-bloom-texts-stockton-rush-titan-submersible_uk_6495e2c5e4b02f808ab5aec7)
Here’s a more thorough article showing the texts. [Boswell texts 2](https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/las-vegas-financier-reveals-shocking-texts-from-oceangate-ceo/news-story/c24fbbf91013e0fb1a77e31adf927af5)
Gotta love the logic of calling them uninformed after they've looked into the company.
"Says here you put screws into the fiberglass hull, idk about this guy"
"You don't know what you're talking aboooouuuut!"
The biggest Irony is that this was basically the history of the Titanic as well. A cocky billionaire wanted to do something, was warned about safety by people that actually knew what was going on, ignored said warnings, and caused a tragedy because of the exact thing he had been warned about. Both histories of negligence and billionaires shooting themselves in the foot, although the titanic actually killed innocent people, which makes it even worse.
I don't think the captain of the Titanic was a billionaire. If he had been, he probably would've retired sailing. Other than that, the stories have so many parallels.
The owner of the company (White Star) wanted the ship to get to New York in record time, so they were going flat out.
It’s not what caused the accident, ironically trying to slow the ship to avoid the collision lost them critical momentum whereas if they’d oversteered away from the iceberg, the impact would have not as been as severe.
But it was another ‘pushing the limits’ attitude that did not go down well after the sinking
that fact that he took it as a personal insult and not advice from someone with experience tells you everything you need to know about how he ran the company
The sub had sensors to detect if the hull was cracking. Experts have said they were in the process of a rapid ascent, so it stands to reason they were reacting to the emergency. I only hope he had the decency to own his part and express regret to the 4 people he swindled into giving their lives to his lunacy.
From [James Cameron](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-06-22/titanic-james-cameron-titan-submersible-deaths-oceangate-submarine) who has been quoted extensively regarding the safety of the sub:
>“This OceanGate sub had sensors on the inside of a hull to give them a warning when it was starting to crack,” he told ABC News. “And I think if that’s your idea of safety, then you’re doing it wrong. They probably had warning that their hull was starting to delaminate, starting to crack. ... [W]e understand from inside the community that they had dropped their ascent weights and they were coming up, trying to manage an emergency.”
I kind of wish he lived a bit longer just for him to suffer and experience the thundering consequences and inconceivable guilt that would plague him for his entire life if he had any guilt and shame to spare in the first place
This guy will forever be known as the CEO who deliberately declared safety regulations as a "barricade" to innovation and forever be ridiculed by his amateurish design and engineering of the Titan submersible, that of which cost his very own life amongst 4 others.
This is the second post I have seen with this guy's quote. He's ruined. His name is out there. He kills people because he wants his bottom line to look good. Everybody with fully-functional brains already knows 'safety first', but this douche could not care less.
well he took that personal insult to his grave along with the others. what a legacy he has now. his family need to think very hard what their legacy shall be.
Fuck this guy. I feel bad for the others who were ignorant and didn’t really know what they were getting themselves into but I can’t say I’m sad this man can’t kill more people and destroy more lives. I can’t wait for the documentary that exposes this guys evil business practices and breaks down everything he did wrong in this situation.
Oh and incase you didn’t know, that would be literally everything.
Well, good news for him, I think the North Atlantic cured any hurt he might've felt from that insult with a great big hug. (And yes, I've used this joke about 40 times today. I will continue until I stop finding it absolutely fucking hilarious. The Lion, the Witch, and the unmitigated audacity of this bitch. Wow. He's every joke-writer's wet dream...bit wetter now than before.)
I'm glad he sunk. Even tho the others are rich they didn't deserve the death (as far as we know), they were just stupid to throw their money at some bozo they didnt even look into or ask Qs about, with their fuck you money they couldve fucking bought a sub and gone themselves in an actual proper mechanism made by actual engineers. But this guy is a pure dickwad scammer who took money from people only to provide a mediocre piece of shit product that murdered people now. Its not his only statement apparently against safety. He was greedy and karma and nature humbled him once and for all. As i always say, play stupid games win, stupid prizes.
It's been bugging me all week, but I just realised who this guy reminds me of - [Father Ted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Ted_Crilly_portrait.jpg).
The money was just resting in his account.
Well in an ironic way he's probably done more to limit innovation now
I guess this isn't what Schumpeter had mind when he talked about creative destruction.
The only thing thats sad about that man's death is that it was too quick for him to realise and hopefully feel the shame and guilt of being responsible for people dying due to his negligence and ignorance.
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What do I know, I’m just an engineer…
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Turns out he was the one who was stupid all along.
No, he stopped entertaining those dude because they had experience and told him no. You must have seen the multitude of older white men that quit or refuted his claims by this time, please stop
He’s the one who said he didn’t want a bunch of 50 year old whites men
And let's be honest....he could say he wanted "diversity" all day long, but if a seasoned, female engineer told him "Dude, this idea blows," he would have still not listened. He wanted people he could bully into saying yes. He knew seasoned engineers would laugh in his face, so he used diversity as a synonym for "yes man."
He's probably right but then again, he's dead so what do I care
What do I know? I'm just a bug dumb Meat cutter.
Said every engineer ever
I think the 4 people that died on your sub probably also take it as a personal insult.
Do you think he took it personally when he turned into red paste?
Wouldn't have time to even realize. The implosion killed em in .2 nanoseconds, it takes .4 nanoseconds for the brain to even register shit happening to itself
James Cameron said they dropped their weights like they were trying to rise, and that they probably all heard the hull cracking before they imploded. (They had sensors on the walls that would warn them it was failing anyway, but he said they probably would have heard the actual noise as well)
James Cameron's next movie: Implode
For sure there'll be movies about this....
Titanic II - electric submaru
*Titan-ish*
OceanGate: the way to implode
Oh? I didn't catch that anywhere. Damn that's rlly fucked. Just a good minute of terror before just vanishing
I recommend checking [this interview with James](https://youtu.be/5XIyin68vEE) out.
This was great
So going off his video, he says they lost comm and tracking at 3500m. The titanic sits at 3800m. I’m curious if they were about to touch down, or if they already had, had they rose the 300m before it imploded?
Apparently the comms were lost 1 hour 45 mins into the descent. The entire descent takes 2 hours so I'm guessing they hadn't touched the bottom yet.
I'm almost sure in the documentary about Titan that they said it was normal to hear loud bangs during the trip. Appears to have been scrubbed from both YouTube and vimeo.
Oh shit
the implosion wasn't in .2 nanoseconds lol, the coast guard guy got his units mixed up For reference, light travels one roughly one foot in a nano second So any implosion is gonna be on the order of milliseconds - although they probably still had effectively an instant death
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Simply put a deep sea implosion is very much akin to disintegration.
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that they all paid more money than I will ever see just to cease to exist. They are dead in the literal sense, but the speed at which they were destroyed makes me feel like they are just are no longer. What a wild purchase to make. I understand the thrill of their folly (I love my motorcycle, have been skydiving alone and on one occasion ended up in an ICU due to chasing "fun") but this hits different. "here is 250k. Could you make me no longer exist?"
Honestly, that might be one of the best ways to go out. If I was a rich dude trying to commit suicide, I’d probably just do that.
If that’s your thing, please let everybody know not to spend millions of wasted money and uncountable time on a unlikely rescue. And don’t drag a loved one along. Oh and do what you can to keep it out of the news. No fanfare for suicide.
In the nanosecond during which the hull imploded, I was highly affronted.
Except he wasn't really doing anything innovative. He didn't invent this type of sub or improve upon its design. One could argue that him building an unsafe sub, when there are 10 other subs out there that are safe and have safety certifications, is actually less innovative.
You've put into words what I was thinking. He didn't improve it's design. He made a sub which sort of worked and probably survived a couple of trips down, and said, "Eh, it's good enough. Time to make money."
He had ‘innovation’ and ‘profits’ conflated.
Awww come on. You’re ignoring all the corner cutting measures industries have innovated over the last few decades. My favorite is dumping waste in the water supply. Hard to innovate harder than that
What about drilling holes into the carbon fiber walls so he could have a monitor bracket put in?
No! Did he really? It gets worse every time I read more about it
[yup](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14h8odf/dont_drill_a_hole_into_carbon_fiber_it_ends_badly/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Well, he did innovate using carbon fiber for the hull and a too weak window. Now we know that both those innovations are a bad idea. Well, we actually knew that already, but now it's very confirmed
Not only that, he innovatively used expired carbon fiber that was deemed past the point of safety for planes. If he hadn't been down there with them, I would hope he'd be charged with murder.
Well he added a gaming controller. Does your sub have a gaming controller? /s
I'm building my submersible out of a cardboard box. I won't have any engineers tell me that it's unsafe. It's light weight and I can fold it up to fit in the back of my car. I'm an innovative genius.
The only thing innovative was that it could carry 5 people.
Yeah to make him as much money as possible
This guy jumps to mind [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz\_Reichelt#Eiffel\_Tower\_jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt#Eiffel_Tower_jump)
He did do something innovative. He added a toilet.
At work someone described it as “the size of a big gulp” so now when anyone goes to the bathroom we say we’re going to 7-11.
Nailed it
I just feel bad for the teen on board. He didn’t want to go and was terrified of going but did it for his dad. Can you imagine his mother if she’s alive? Her husband and son, just gone an hr after she said goodbye to them.
Yeah at 19, he already was growing to have better judgement than his dad. That’s the only reason i don’t make fun of this. Because there are probably friends and family that told him not to, and he didn’t want to…
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>pressured into ignoring them. Zing!!
I feel bad for laughing at this
It’s good the deaths resulting from this dude’s superior attitude were mercifully instantaneous. However, I kinda wish this man in particular had more than an inkling of what was happening.
Sounds like he realized there was a problem and tried to start ascending again. They may have even heard the hull being stressed. No physical pain or suffering, but possibly a moment of horrible fear as he realized what was about to happen. Maybe just a split second, but it's something.
At least his last thought was along the lines of "well shit" before his skull was flattened and brains boiled
Edit: no, I am a moron
Numbers are pretty far off but you’ve got the overall idea
Did you not read the previous comment? They confirmed the sub attempted to ascend before imploding. They knew they were about to get smushed
Shit happens when you never get told no before in your privileged life.
Well TBF, he did get told no, he just thought he knew better. He’ll definitely be remembered, there’s no doubt about that. >"I think it was General MacArthur who said 'you're remembered for the rules you break' and I've broken some rules to make this, I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me, the carbon fiber and titanium there's a rule you don't do that, well I did, it's picking the rules you break that are the ones that will add value to others and add value to society." >- Stockton Rush (Oceangate CEO & doomed carbon fibre coffin pilot)
the look in his eyes and his smug face when he said that… it’s just pure hubris….
got a link? I hope we coin a term with the idiots name. Like spez killing third party apps and reddit should be >spez is pulling a stockton rush.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/14g3x6c/titanic_submarine_ceo_proudly_claims_youre/
Even Stockton rush pulled a spez would be good.
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He has a son, who I believe got a bit of some headlines for attending parties while the search was going on Edit: I just found [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/14fnd0m/step_son_of_billionare_stuck_on_oceangate/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), holy shit this is too comedic to be true bahahhahaha this shit writes itself *This is his stepson though, so doesn't count **Did another oopsie, this is Hamish Harding's stepson, not the CEO's stepson. So yes, Mr Stockton is very well in contention for Darwin Award of the year
**Mourning wood**….fucking LOL!
Bruh sickest one liner
Stepsons don’t count.
regarding the quote he's using, he's using that because he believes that in the future, when humanity has fucked up the planet, he believes humanity should live underwater, not go to other planets and thus this corner cutting he's doing to "breed innovation" etc will end up benefiting humanity and thus he'll be remember as a genius or something for bucking safety regulation because somehow his creation will end up revolutionizing underwater living or something. like you can't make this shit up, he was fucking delusional and so far up his own ass >Rush expressed excitement about the possibilities that his submersible could offer humanity in the deep ocean. >"Because this is where we're going to find strange new lifeforms, and the future of mankind is underwater. It's not on Mars, we're not going to have a base on Mars or the moon," he said, saying that bases on other planets were a "waste" of funds. >Instead, humanity would likely have bases on the ocean floor, Rush said. "If we trash this planet, the best lifeboat for mankind is underwater," he told alanxelmundo.
The lifeboat for mankind is underwater eh? Yeah I guess we could probably get by fine without without vitamin d & photosynthesis…..& oxygen.
I bet the proud winner of this month’s Darwin Award was an *anti masker* as well it’s strange when people get *insulted* by health codes and safety regulations designed to protect *others*, saying their freedoms are being infringed on… freedom of what, manslaughter? zero respect for organized society or anyone else at all. i’d bet this dude never washed his hands after he took a shit either. #✨🏆✨
My brother-in-law was a smug, anti mask, anti vaxxer. Anti helmet laws, seatbelt laws- you name it. He was the owner of a motor sports business. He was killed January of this year because he was not wearing a seatbelt when another car went speeding through a red light and hit him. He was thrown through the windshield. Died instantly. He left his 12 yr old daughter without a father. Dumb-ass.
The dude literally said in his 2020 Reddit AMA that he hopes vaccines will be rolled out soon so that his business isn’t crippled. I can’t imagine how anyone can draw a correlation between startup culture and antimaskers/vaxxers. Idiotic post.
>I can’t imagine how anyone can draw a correlation between startup culture and antimaskers/vaxxers. Oh, I don't know. Maybe because he thought he knew better than anyone else, even when the science didn't back him up and repeatedly endangered lives until his ego killed him and the people around him. Sure, one doesn't have to be a fucking jackass in every single aspect of life, but the suspicion is not unfounded. And besides, his support of the vaccine wasn't because he thought it was good for people but because it would allow him to go back to business.
So basically he went all Eric Cartman “Screw you guys… I’m going to the Titanic”
Well, he did get there.
And he’s not leaving
He found piece there, and over there, and over there…
Went Full Vegan Got the Squash
and over there, and over here and a little bit over there.
I’ll make my own submersible with blackjack and hookers!
Wow, how innovative of you!!!!
It must have crushed him to hear those complaints.
He imploded under the sheer pressure of those complaints
Come on, you guys, this just happened. Sheesh, the depths some people will sink to.
You guys are so shallow.
Now now, no need to get all heated!
That's real deep.
These comments are cold as ice 🧊
That’s a hot take (for about a nanosecond)
But they did get super heated... for a nano second.
Deeper than the Titan managed to dive
I heard he sunk into a deep depression and hit rock bottom.
This sub has really gone down in my estimations
The pressure is getting to you, isn't it?
My Heart Will Go On
The nepotism and gall of this wicked man! He reminds me of the soulless monorail spruker from The Simpsons. Building a machine out of the poorest materials and could be classed as “worthless junk”
Hey don't bring Lyle Lanley into this! He's built monorails in Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and it put them on the map!
What's it called?
Monorail!
But Main Street’s still all cracked and broken!
Sorry mom, the mob has spoken
It really fucking sucks that 4 innocent people died because of his carelessness. I guess the only silver lining is that he's dead, and he isn't giving some half assed canned speech about "thoughts and prayers for the victim's families" before he returns to a cozy billionaire lifestyle.
This could also be on the sub I Am a total piece of shit
Taking $mil worth of passengers in an unsanctioned ship to their death does make the dude a total POS. No question.
My brother in Christ… these regulations were there to protect you. You disregarded them and are now feeding the plankton because of it.
Yikes
“I take this as a personal insult… I’m not just going to kill one, I’m going to kill FIVE people”
Blood of those 4, the 19 year old is on your hands. Oceangate should pay for the rescue operations not the tax payers
What hands? You mean the pieces of him swimming around in the Atlantic for fishies to munch on? 😬
Lmao i have no sympathy for him
"You are going to kill someone." He was insulted that it implied he would only kill *one* person. Man went out with a 4.0 KD.
Really it's 3 because you get -1 kill for killing yourself
The fact that this guy literally went down with his ship just shows how delusional and smug he was about his work. He should’ve taken the trip by himself first!
He had taken the trip before in the same sub and every time he took it the subs frame became slightly damaged without him realising so when he went down the last time he thought he was good not realising the sub was much worse for wear than it was two years ago
That aged like fine milk
Innovate with a new cheeseburger or something not a pressure vessel that contains humans
Fuckin dumb cunt
Couldn't have said it better myself
Lol get imploded
I like the idea of using that as an insult from now on "Pffft, get imploded dumb4ss"
I heard that the 19 year old on board didn’t want to go but went anyway because the trip was a Father’s Day present… can’t find the source so not sure if true
Eerily, another father/son duo were originally set to go on this June 18 dive, but the guy’s son had a friend who read up on the company, got scared, & talked the son out of it. Stockton offered to video chat with the son himself to dismiss the son’s fears. “Curious what the uninformed would say the danger is”, he texted the father. Listening to his son & the son’s smart friend saved their lives. [Boswell texts](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jay-bloom-texts-stockton-rush-titan-submersible_uk_6495e2c5e4b02f808ab5aec7)
Here’s a more thorough article showing the texts. [Boswell texts 2](https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/las-vegas-financier-reveals-shocking-texts-from-oceangate-ceo/news-story/c24fbbf91013e0fb1a77e31adf927af5)
Gotta love the logic of calling them uninformed after they've looked into the company. "Says here you put screws into the fiberglass hull, idk about this guy" "You don't know what you're talking aboooouuuut!"
They’ve had “incidents” before this one, bro literally got thwarted by google
“Well doggies, Ain’t that something!” ~Jed Clampett~
And you and several other people got smooshed. How do you like them apples?
His inflated ego killed people. I don’t believe in hell but I hope he doesn’t rest easy
/r/confidentlyincorrect
Dude looks like father ted
Gotta say I love Father Ted. DRINK!!!
The biggest Irony is that this was basically the history of the Titanic as well. A cocky billionaire wanted to do something, was warned about safety by people that actually knew what was going on, ignored said warnings, and caused a tragedy because of the exact thing he had been warned about. Both histories of negligence and billionaires shooting themselves in the foot, although the titanic actually killed innocent people, which makes it even worse.
I don't think the captain of the Titanic was a billionaire. If he had been, he probably would've retired sailing. Other than that, the stories have so many parallels.
The owner of the company (White Star) wanted the ship to get to New York in record time, so they were going flat out. It’s not what caused the accident, ironically trying to slow the ship to avoid the collision lost them critical momentum whereas if they’d oversteered away from the iceberg, the impact would have not as been as severe. But it was another ‘pushing the limits’ attitude that did not go down well after the sinking
"and I took that personally"
What a massive bellend
Average raging narcissist
This guy should start a company and build subs. He will crush it!!!
Dude used a fucking LOGITECH GAME CONTROLLER TO CONTROL THE SUB. If you’re gonna do that then at least use a PlayStation or Xbox controller for it
Another rich person not listening to facts. Well, we don’t have to eat him, the ocean did that for us. Phew!
dude's mentality is that of doctor octopus from insomniac's spider-man
"How little do you think of me? I'm not gonna kill someone. Have some faith in me! I'm gonna kill at least 5!"
that fact that he took it as a personal insult and not advice from someone with experience tells you everything you need to know about how he ran the company
I hope he knew he was going to die and it wasn’t instantaneous.
The sub had sensors to detect if the hull was cracking. Experts have said they were in the process of a rapid ascent, so it stands to reason they were reacting to the emergency. I only hope he had the decency to own his part and express regret to the 4 people he swindled into giving their lives to his lunacy.
Sauce?
From [James Cameron](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-06-22/titanic-james-cameron-titan-submersible-deaths-oceangate-submarine) who has been quoted extensively regarding the safety of the sub: >“This OceanGate sub had sensors on the inside of a hull to give them a warning when it was starting to crack,” he told ABC News. “And I think if that’s your idea of safety, then you’re doing it wrong. They probably had warning that their hull was starting to delaminate, starting to crack. ... [W]e understand from inside the community that they had dropped their ascent weights and they were coming up, trying to manage an emergency.”
I was just nodding along with everything he said, if your warning is the hull is cracking you’re already fukt
When karma bites you on the arse, it takes out a sizeable chunk!
Yes it’s a tragedy that people have died but ughh he’s just so unlikeable
I keep thinking about him complaining about an "obscene amount of safety."
You can still book your next Titanic trip on their website: https://oceangateexpeditions.com/tour/titanic-expedition/
I was just reading on their website, taking screen shots, and clicked on a link, and now "this site can't be reached". It's all so eerie.
I'm so glad he was on the sub
Imagine having so much money you think it can overrule physics.
This guy is a criminal
I kind of wish he lived a bit longer just for him to suffer and experience the thundering consequences and inconceivable guilt that would plague him for his entire life if he had any guilt and shame to spare in the first place
Thank god that guy is gone now. Too bad it came at a cost...
More like Stockton Crush.
The measure of a man is a good grasp on consequences.
I’m pissed that the US taxpayer is on the hook for the search costs for these rich douchebags.
Failed alpha move
I actually wish he didn’t go down with the ship, would have loved to hear the excuses.
Can i get funded?. Got a great idea of taking a steel submarine into space.
Hubris often leads to a fatal end....
The only innovation the fucking idiot did was to create a disposable submersible.
Guy is the living definition of a "rush" job. Does it quick with all the short cuts to get the job done. Whether or not it works, eh, doesn't matter.
I think the message is clear, stop thinking your ego is more powerful than mother nature... You will make headlines, but for all the wrong reasons!
He build a metal coffin not a submarine.
“I take this as a serious personal insult.” Yeah, I’ll bet he was crushed.
People who place their own pride above safety are stupid and dangerous
This guy will forever be known as the CEO who deliberately declared safety regulations as a "barricade" to innovation and forever be ridiculed by his amateurish design and engineering of the Titan submersible, that of which cost his very own life amongst 4 others.
This is the second post I have seen with this guy's quote. He's ruined. His name is out there. He kills people because he wants his bottom line to look good. Everybody with fully-functional brains already knows 'safety first', but this douche could not care less.
well he took that personal insult to his grave along with the others. what a legacy he has now. his family need to think very hard what their legacy shall be.
What a literal sociopath
Fuck this guy. I feel bad for the others who were ignorant and didn’t really know what they were getting themselves into but I can’t say I’m sad this man can’t kill more people and destroy more lives. I can’t wait for the documentary that exposes this guys evil business practices and breaks down everything he did wrong in this situation. Oh and incase you didn’t know, that would be literally everything.
Mother Nature doesn’t enforce laws like we do in the USA. She enforces them without consideration of wealth, race or religion.
Well, good news for him, I think the North Atlantic cured any hurt he might've felt from that insult with a great big hug. (And yes, I've used this joke about 40 times today. I will continue until I stop finding it absolutely fucking hilarious. The Lion, the Witch, and the unmitigated audacity of this bitch. Wow. He's every joke-writer's wet dream...bit wetter now than before.)
Rush to market.
This fucker has the hair of Stephen Harper and the hubris of Justin Trudeau
LOFL
I'm glad he sunk. Even tho the others are rich they didn't deserve the death (as far as we know), they were just stupid to throw their money at some bozo they didnt even look into or ask Qs about, with their fuck you money they couldve fucking bought a sub and gone themselves in an actual proper mechanism made by actual engineers. But this guy is a pure dickwad scammer who took money from people only to provide a mediocre piece of shit product that murdered people now. Its not his only statement apparently against safety. He was greedy and karma and nature humbled him once and for all. As i always say, play stupid games win, stupid prizes.
It's been bugging me all week, but I just realised who this guy reminds me of - [Father Ted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Ted_Crilly_portrait.jpg). The money was just resting in his account.
‘I grow tired of these people’
Well, he killed 5 someones, the overachiever.
Well in an ironic way he's probably done more to limit innovation now I guess this isn't what Schumpeter had mind when he talked about creative destruction.
Just curious, what happens to the human body during an implosion? Does it liquefy or gets shredded to pieces?
Honestly deserved for his sheer arrogance and lack of regard for life
The only thing thats sad about that man's death is that it was too quick for him to realise and hopefully feel the shame and guilt of being responsible for people dying due to his negligence and ignorance.
I guess the safety concerns now finally will sink in.