Fastest Suicide In History

ISWYDT.

I watched the Netflix documentary and I must say that it does not reflect well on this man. He seemed like a narcissist and a spoiled rich one at that.

Deadly combination. It’s a shame it was deadly to others as well.

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No way, i would squeeze into a tin can with no room to move around.

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…And it wasn’t even primarily metal. He used carbon fiber which everyone on the planet in the field warned him would work until it instantly didn’t, numerous times. Documentary made it seem everyone actually involved in this mess knew it was a ticking time bomb.

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I watched the Netflix documentary and I must say that it does not reflect well on this man. He seemed like a narcissist and a spoiled rich one at that.

Deadly combination. It’s a shame it was deadly to others as well.

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Evidence points that he was a suicidal nutcase. His small scale tests all failed under 4000 psi while Titanic depth requires withstanding 5500 psi, so instead of quitting that approach and looking at alternatives, he just sent it full scale. Cause you know if your model fails under less pressure, your larger model will be just fine with even more pressure. /s His engineer said they should test it without anybody in it, but he wanted to be inside of it. If that's not a death wish, I don't know what is. Maybe he was excited to play the Russian implosion roulette every time.


Everyone who was on it said it was crackling and popping making everyone uneasy. The snaps you hear on his self recorded video of 1st deep test dive at 3900 meters are chilling. I'd be grateful if I came back from that and never go near it again. But he just called it "seasoning" of the hull. On dive 80 they heard a bang while ascending back, but after surfacing and inspecting it, they just left it out in the winter till next dive, which was the last dive. It probably developed another crack like it did previously, but instead of inspecting the fool rationalized that "submarines make noises at some point".

Utter insanity.

Stockton Rush might be the biggest D-Bag name ever conceived

That part is wild. The fact that he made it there and back once is absolutely incredible. 13 times though?

The storing it outside in the dead of a Candadian winter blew my mind. Likely 10’s of millions of dollars invested and they threw a tarp over it and kept outside. What could go wrong???

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you gloss over this but this is what’s so wild to me…this moron in his tin can made it to the Titanic successfully 13 times

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It was probably "safe"-ish for 1 time use. But that means he made a disposable deepsea submersible.

Each dive after that was a Russian roulette.

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His carbon fiber design worked like it was supposed to. The fibers were to start breaking to let them know it was time to bail.

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So he should have bailed on the 1st dive basically.

You definitely don't want to have your hull breaking in any way when under compression with you in it. It means you picked the wrong material for the job and a wrong design.

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storing it outside in the dead of a Candadian winter blew my mind.

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That was crazy to me. Even setting aside the potential safety risks that outdoor sub-zero weather elements could cause, why would you spend millions of dollars on something and just leave it sitting outside in the freezing cold weather?… just seems like common sense to store it inside.