Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "Oceanliner Designs" channel.

The white star line wouldn’t have wanted the enquiry to find that the ship broke her back
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And no one was prosecuted for what was essentially their murder
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@moralslinky what’s a joke is that far more time and column inches, and far more time, money and effort, was spent on ocean gate and 5 rich idiots who died than the 500 people who died in Greece
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There were no passing ships
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Brilliant comment
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@Svensk7119 if he lost a hero to Rush’s ego, hubris and gross incompetence he should be livid with him, not defending him.
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@DrunkenChewbacca and in deep sea diving when dealing with pressure, the standard is to build it to a rating that is a third over tolerance to the maximum depth you’ve intending to drive to, so really everything should have been rated to 6000 metres
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@Svensk7119 the fact it has been to the bottom 14 times before doesn’t prove it’s seaworthiness, if Rush or PH had done any research at all about carbon fibre they’d have realised that it was only likely to get weaker with each dive, and without subjecting the hull to a full analysis they’d never know what the impact those dives had on the structural integrity. PH was obsessed with the titanic, and this was a cheap way to get up close and personal with it. And as you or someone else pointed out, these Jules Verne type adventurers are big risk takers. I don’t know how much he knew about submersibles. I don’t know a whole lot myself, but I knew enough long before that thing ever sank to know you wouldn’t catch me on it. Whether he believed in it or not isn’t really the point. He might have believed in God for all the good it did him. The point is Rush was careless and carefree in the design, manufacture and maintenance of his submersible, and ignored repeated and persistent warnings from his own team and his peers in the industry. I doubt very much whether he fully informed all his passengers of those warnings, hence his eagerness to use his financial clout to sue his critics to shut them up. The idea that because he’s dead we can just forgive him of causing the unnecessary death of four other people is ludicrous. Lessons need to learnt, and they won’t be if we just paper over his shortcomings simply because he happens to be dead.
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@Svensk7119 unfortunately he can’t be punished any more, more’s the pity. However, by highlighting and emphasising his errors, failures and crass stupidity we can at least hope that others won’t copy his example and make the same mistake s.
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@xRhamnusia what expertise have you got in this area? Is it because you use one of these controllers yourself and find them to be quite good for controlling your video games?
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@coolhand67 so locking people in a sinking ship isn’t missed murdering them?
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It’s even worse than you suggest. None of the equipment like the TVs and monitors, the wiring, the onboard computer, the controller has been fire rated. The carbon fibre used to construct the hull has been bought at a huge discount because it has gone past its shelf life to be used in aviation. He used to brag that the innovative design was effective because the carbon fibre and the viewing window would “crackle” as a warning before giving way, and that would give them enough time to get to the surface. I honestly think this guy intended to die down there with the titanic, there’s no other rational explanation for being this stupid.
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@TimInertiatic yes, it’s from the people who worked there
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@thefitcookie completely safe yet the waiver mentioned possible death 3 times on the first page alone.
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@jonzenrael most of the world’s titanium comes from Russia, Boeing is still biting it from then, despite the sanctions. Funny how they get a pass
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@Svensk7119 giving the man a pass simply because he killed himself doesn’t seem very fruitful to me
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Not sure why you said “how survivors might have witnessed it”. Most survivors did witness it, and went on to describe the event in great detail, most of which are documented.
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