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"Move fast, break things" is the mantra of people who increase their wealth by disrupting systems that work.

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"industry regulation is stifling innovation" should be the epitaph of Stockton Rush, CEO of #OceanGate

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Ocean Gate Outfitters: Billionaires check in, but they don't check out.

There's got to be a way to get more than a handful of them at one time. Perhaps this is the innovation Mr. Stockton was talking about.

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These are human beings, including a teenager. They may still be alive, trapped and terrified. If they are then they only have about 34 hours of oxygen left, and they will understand that rescue is almost certainly impossible.

Rolling Stone earlier Tuesday: "Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard ‘Banging’ From Area, Internal Comms Reveal"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/titanic-submersible-missing-searchers-heard-banging-1234774674/

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> The critiques from Mr. Lochridge and the experts who signed the 2018 letter to Mr. Rush were focused in part on what they characterized as Mr. Rush’s refusal to have the Titan inspected and certified by one of the leading agencies that do such work.

> Mr. Lochridge reported in court records that he had urged the company to do so, but that he had been told that OceanGate was “unwilling to pay” for such an assessment.

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> the viewport that lets passengers see outside the craft was only certified to work in depths of up to 1,300 meters.
That is far less than would be necessary for trips to the Titanic, which is nearly 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface.

> “The paying passengers would not be aware, and would not be informed, of this experimental design,” lawyers for Mr. Lochridge wrote in a court filing.

> The meeting led OceanGate to fire Mr. Lochridge

@stevesilberman The US businessman's whine "Safety regulations stifle innovation" is over a century old, probably closer to 150. Look back to the origin of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, a dull and weighty tome that has been saving lives, ships, buildings, and industrial plants for a century https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/ebooks/book/246/The-Code-An-Authorized-History-of-the-ASME-Boiler

There is a long history of whiny manbabies in engineering and business making this argument and it's just as BS today as it was 150 years ago. Every safety regulation is written in blood. Sucks that the Oceangate guy had to find this out the hard way, sucks even more that he took others with him.