Today's "Breaking news":Titan submersible disaster was preventable, Coast Guard states

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Titan submersible disaster was preventable

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well, yeah gif

By simply not putting that piece of shite under pressure?

It was a long-term suicide by Stockton Rush. Slowly at first, then suddenly.

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Titan submersible disaster was preventable, Coast Guard states

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tighter regulation ?

If you are going to do something like that, much less pay big money to do it, don't you take some responsibility for making those decisions? Do you really need the gubment (sic) to step in with a thick rule book? Or for someone to say "that creaking sound is/is not according to regulation 102-4-gh"?

At this point, all I really want to see is video of the DEI-loving uber-tard being gooified in the mini-sub.

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tighter regulation ?

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I think the regulation they're suggesting is based around passenger operations. OG was able to skirt a lot of things by labeling their paying passengers as crew of the sub even though they weren't really needed do anything mission-critical.

Basically sounds like they want to eliminate the gray area which OG operated in, which everyone should agree with.

Avoidable by not going places you don’t belong.

As a reminder, submersibles are insanely easy to make safe. They're so safe, the Coast Guard didn't even have protocols on what to do.

There is a submersible that is capable of reaching the deepest parts of the oceans that has been in service for over 60 years.

DSV Alvin

So, it is not novel or inaccessible technology. It's just expensive (and heavy). OceanGate (Stockton Rush) wasn't pursuing carbon fiber for the application because it was in any way better (except lighter and cheaper). He was "breaking rules" and not in a good way.

Take the Alvin or the ultramodern Limiting Factor. They're very heavy and very expensive to operate. Even if you could operate the Alvin with 1 expert pilot, you could only bring 2 paying customers. Likewise, the Limiting Factor (which you can deploy and retrieve several times in the same day, all the way to the bottom of the sea if you have its specialized mothership) is only a 2-seater. 1 pilot, 1 "passenger/mission specialist/customer". OceanGate had to make carbon fiber work to have 4 or 5 people in the tube to make the thing profitable more quickly.

Now, I don't think Rush was doing it for the money alone, but he needed it to be profitable in the short-term as well as all the other things he was stroking his own ego with.

Carbon fiber is fantastic material for aerospace applications. If it was suitable for deep sea operations, it would have already been in use. It isn't. You need steel or titanium for a pressure hull going to the depths of the ocean. Carbon fiber is great for a positive pressure environment, like airframes or even automobiles. But not when there is immense compressive/crushing pressure.