The CEO of the company whose Titanic-seeking submarine has been missing for nearly two days once said safety was a "pure waste."

The CEO of the company whose Titanic-seeking submarine has been missing for nearly two days once said safety was a “pure waste.”

  • cdipierr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Not unreasonable, but getting out of bed and going to the most dangerous part of our planet don’t really equate, you know? And when your own engineers are telling you you’ve made something unsafe, but you just keep going?? Well…

    • Liara@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      They also learned nothing from a previous experience where the sub lost contact and got lost for hours. There were discussions of adding a beacon to the sub but that clearly never happened.

      I guess the CEO never expected cutting corners would directly affect his life.

      • cdipierr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        According to that news article where it got lost for 2.5 hours, the CEO said he wasn’t going to try again until summer '23. So I’m reasonably certain the sub’s two attempts at diving resulted in one temporary and one permanent loss. The reporter who went on that successful dive and didn’t die must feel like he dodged a bullet.