What authority? They’re in international waters.

OceanGategate

Isn’t 105,000 miles the point of a BMW V12's life that your BMW mechanic takes you out for a beer, talks aimlessly about your relationship and how he thinks it’s on an upswing, and then gives you a BMW baseball hat, while spreading Kingsford briquettes on the ground in front of you?

They need to move the company to Texas where they can make the hull out of recycled milk bottles and rely on the blessed prayers of the Osteen Megachurch for its primary strength!

Sounds like just another commie whistleblower wanting to gum up American business and profits with needless regulations!

Boy is that Lochridge guy happy he stuck to his guns in this matter. Being fired from that role is the best thing to happen to him in his whole life. 

Every neuron of my “former professional German car tech” brain is screaming at me to say no.

Wait???

With Elvis

My new theory. These people didn’t pay $250k to go see the Titanic wreckage. They paid it to disappear and they are all fine on some island somewhere.

NQNP (not quite nice price) This car is almost painfully pretty, especially compared to the current offerings from BMW.

“Brilliant Rot” sounds like a hardcore punk band. 

I gave it a NP. Caveat being a look at its extensive maintenance history which will get expensive and quick. Its at that tipping point where normal 30 year old wear items are starting to come into play and parts are not cheap and no one wants to work on them because of the rarity and complexity and lack of experiance. 

I have no idea why you wouldn’t do the same on a submersible hull that I think is very roughly the same size.

Lightness equals easier buoyancy. To counteract a heavier hull you’d need more volume. I don’t know about submersibles, but in surface vessels size is nearly directly related to cost. I’d also wonder about the ability to manufacture carbon hulls at increasing sizes. Yachts racing in “The Ocean Race,” an around the…

I also don’t understand why a steel hull being heavy would be a problem - it’s not a high performance vehicle.

The story of the Titanic is often portrayed as being a parable of Man’s hubris and how they arrogantly declared that the ship was unsinkable doomed it.

File this one under “profit motivates the private sector to deliver better and cheaper results than the public sector”

The OceanGate CEO definitely isn’t going to listen now.