🐮 Lolcow Doug Jackson / SV Seeker - Boomer hubris personified, an incompetent lunatic's dreams slowly crumbling to dust because of his own poor decisions.

[Adamska]

Drowning in feces as the ship collapsed Edmund Fitzgerald style was only something I thought was half in the cards

It's funnier when you realize that he has to flush it in a certain way or else it literally will sink.

 

[SwiftBucks]

Full report on the oceangate sub released this week:

Publicar en el tema 'Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way'

Domingo a las 16:03

Final report is out.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JGRjhfttZGg

Spoiler: Abridged Summary of Report

• Implosion:
  • Impossible to use carbon fiber hull to be defect-less and some of the processes to manufacture the cylinder hull led to defects.
    • Unconventional methods were used by people lacking knowledge of the processes involved.
  • No pressure load or repeat failure tests with full-scale models were done by Titan.
    • Minimum testing of 2 1/3 scale models done showed failure at 3000m and 3300m with both models failing due to pressure.
  • Lack of reports on manufacturing including grinding down of carbon fiber layers...

• GenociderSyo

Reacciones: x 241 x 26 x 15 x 17 x 6 x 5 x 2 x 1 x 9

Lots of parallels between the Oceangate CEO and Doug. I hope that when the Seeker sinks we get a full writeup like this too

 

[Tiresome]

Full report on the oceangate sub released this week:

Publicar en el tema 'Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way'

Domingo a las 16:03

Final report is out.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JGRjhfttZGg

Spoiler: Abridged Summary of Report

• Implosion:
  • Impossible to use carbon fiber hull to be defect-less and some of the processes to manufacture the cylinder hull led to defects.
    • Unconventional methods were used by people lacking knowledge of the processes involved.
  • No pressure load or repeat failure tests with full-scale models were done by Titan.
    • Minimum testing of 2 1/3 scale models done showed failure at 3000m and 3300m with both models failing due to pressure.
  • Lack of reports on manufacturing including grinding down of carbon fiber layers...

• GenociderSyo

Reacciones: x 241 x 26 x 15 x 17 x 6 x 5 x 2 x 1 x 9

Lots of parallels between the Oceangate CEO and Doug. I hope that when the Seeker sinks we get a full writeup like this too

Very unlikely, Doug isn't rich and doesn't ferry rich people and is an unlikable asshole whom literally no one on this planet will mourn or think about after he's gone. I expect any official Coast Guard report on the sinking will be the maritime equivalent of "lol boomer faggot" and no one will even bother to FOIA it.

 

[Path Wanderer]

Very unlikely, Doug isn't rich and doesn't ferry rich people and is an unlikable asshole whom literally no one on this planet will mourn or think about after he's gone. I expect any official Coast Guard report on the sinking will be the maritime equivalent of "lol boomer faggot" and no one will even bother to FOIA it.

Sort of. Oceangate’s CEO was almost a stereotypical narcissist but he was trying to pioneer something genuine (in his case, the folly of carbon-fiber). Doug with his tourist now science ship is playing catch up with actual ship designers and scientists so he is more like Donald Crowhurst playing up to a likely deadly game