“We live in the “I did my own research, the experts are crooked and keeping the truth from us” horrid timeline.”

Yeah, I don’t know about other people, but the last thing I want to hear about the ride which will take me down to nearly 4km below the ocean surface is “cheap cheap cheap”.

he also alleged that its viewport was not built to travel at the depths that OceanGate wanted to take the vehicle.

“Not one second of me experiencing anything from OceanGate have I ever felt unsafe”

One thing about engineers... We never need to hear, “You were right.”

“Oh, yeah, it’s all fine!”

In a recent New York Times podcast episode, journalist William J. Broad explained the riskiness of this strategy: “What they were proposing was extremely novel. They were making a very, very deep diving submersible out of materials that were not industry standards...It wasn’t a standard material for the deep sea.…

Again, Rush reportedly dismissed such safety concerns, responding to McCallum: “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often,” he wrote. “I take this as a serious personal insult.”

I’ve always thought an odometer should be something you use to track down bad smells.

Thanks for the info. That sounds like a hassle.

Well, they are technically dolphins.

When I lived in Hillsboro, and Canby I had an ML350 Bluetec, and ALWAYS pumped my own diesel.  I was told that there’s an exception in the law for diesel that allowed you to pump your own.  I would pull up to the pump, and get out, and an attendant would start towards me, I’d say “diesel”, and he’d say “OK, yeah, you…

I feel bad for the kid, but the rest? Play stupid games win stupid prizes. It always sucks that people have to die before someone goes, “Ya know... maybe there should be some sort of oversight into this sort of thing?”

Not just idiots, but idiot bosses who deliberately make other people’s lives miserable.

I like it when idiots fuck around and then publicly find out.

They would save the feces to grow potatoes.

not having a simple rescue GPS beacon so this thing can be located if/when on the surface is inexcusable. 

Yea but none of those migrants were billionaires, so who cares?

Or even worse, it is on the surface, they can see out, but because they are literally bolted in from the outside, they are suffocating within sight of fresh air.

Not to wish ill on those on board, but I think I would prefer a catastrophic failure to put a quick end to me rather than sitting in the dark for 4-5 days waiting to suffocate.