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Can you believe that's already over 3 years ago? And no billionaire has been brave, smart and visionary enough for another attempt...
Can you believe that's already over 3 years ago? And no billionaire has been brave, smart and visionary enough for another attempt...
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
That man's arrogance got at least one innocent young victim killed. Not so smart and blind to the danger other people told him about. Someone more cautious to the forces of nature and less into fantasy might make it. Just like going to Mars isn't as 'simple' as going to the Moon.
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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato Absolutely. I am the exact opposite of a risk taker, so a no-brainer from me. 😄 However, I have had a fascination with deep sea exploration since I was about 12 when I read an extract from a Jacques Cousteau book in school. I went straight to the public Library and ordered the whole book. It was amazing. Like space exploration, I shall never be involved personally, but will be forever interested.
(I do enjoy documentaries on the subject - like Star Trek 🫢)
(I do enjoy documentaries on the subject - like Star Trek 🫢)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato There was nothing wrong with adapting an X-box controller, but what was wrong was contempt for proper pressure-vessel design to the point that warnings were wilfully ignored.
This venture has no proper basis or motive. It was just an ego-trip combined, I think, with the idea of running tourist-trips in the submersible. It would always be hazardous but it was driven by a man who paid scant attention to hazard and risk, must have had poor engineering knowledge (if any), and the point that proper engineering does all it can to analyse the hazards and head off the risks.
I wonder if he even knew the difference between hazard and risk - with the almost-inevitable and certainly avoidable result of killing himself and others. At least their deaths would likely have been pretty well instant.
It's not even as the project was at all novel. Bathyscaphes have been to the floor of the Marianas Trench, even its deepest part (the Challenger Deep), and returned safely, since the 1950s. Far deeper than the North Atlantic Ocean. Their secret? Proper engineering knowledge and design.
This venture has no proper basis or motive. It was just an ego-trip combined, I think, with the idea of running tourist-trips in the submersible. It would always be hazardous but it was driven by a man who paid scant attention to hazard and risk, must have had poor engineering knowledge (if any), and the point that proper engineering does all it can to analyse the hazards and head off the risks.
I wonder if he even knew the difference between hazard and risk - with the almost-inevitable and certainly avoidable result of killing himself and others. At least their deaths would likely have been pretty well instant.
It's not even as the project was at all novel. Bathyscaphes have been to the floor of the Marianas Trench, even its deepest part (the Challenger Deep), and returned safely, since the 1950s. Far deeper than the North Atlantic Ocean. Their secret? Proper engineering knowledge and design.