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
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??
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?
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.
Always hard when a company ceases to operate. I bet the CEO is crushed right now.
I had a sinking feeling the company was going to implode after the incident. Kinda hard to stay afloat when your CEO is dead.
What could they send anyone down in?
“I’m sorry customers, but our only Logitech controller is at the bottom of the ocean.”
More seriously, I think they have a couple of other submersibles rated for much shallower depths, one they built and one they bought, IIRC.
I wouldn’t even trust the one they bought, given their attitude to safety.
“This sub is only rated for 1km? That’s only a suggestion.”
I have to imagine something like a submarine probably requires quite a bit of maintenance to stay reasonably safe anyways, and given their reputation of cost-cutting even to the point of gambling with the life of their own CEO and losing, I somehow don’t expect them to be the best at keeping on top of that.
Titan was the only sub they actually designed and built by themselves.
Antipodes was purchased. Cyclops was purchased and refitted - meaning someone else actually designed and built the pressure hull. They did retrofit it so it could be steered with a wireless gaming controller, though!
Just send an intern to buy a VW bus from a junkyard and have them stop at home Depot on the way back for some duct tape, then fire the whistleblowers and have more interns add 3 layers of tape–you know what, to be on the safe side, let’s make it 4–and send out another intern to buy some fans for propulsion.
Hook those babies up to the alternator and we’ll be ready to–why the FUCK are these windows covered in duct tape!? Clients don’t pay a quarter of a million dollars to visit the Titanic but not be able to see any of it! Don’t any of you ever use your fucking heads? Glass is bullet proof, I saw a YouTube video about it once, just put tape on the edges to make sure it’s sealed and it will be fine.
It’s not easy to source expired carbon fiber and windows rated to 1/3rd of your target depth.
They’ll need some time to find more interns to redesign the electrical systems too
I am surprised they didn’t do so sooner. I would’ve sold everything I could right away after they’re confirmed dead. There’s no coming back from this, even if they had another sub.
Yeah I can’t even imagine trying to market another trip. You could never escape the negative reputation of this, why wait so long to announce that it’s over?
It might feel like forever in internet time, but it’s only been two and a half weeks since the thing imploded and two weeks since the rescue operation was called off after finding debris from the Titan. Two weeks is lightning fast for a company to formally shut down in response to something like this, especially when you consider that the company’s employees have been grieving the death of their CEO/friend during all of this.
