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Cacciato posted...

The more I read about the pilot/CEO the more he comes off as a piece of shit though. I guess the company even settled with a former employee they fired because he was calling them out in their safety issues.

Yeah, I love his explanation about why he didn't get the sub 'classed':

"In a 2019 blog post on OceanGates website, the company said most marine operations require that chartered vessels are classed by an independent group such as the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), DNV/GL, Lloyds Register, or one of the many others.

But the Titan is not classed, the blog post says, adding that classing innovative designs often requires a multiyear approval process, which gets in the way of rapid innovation.

Classing agencies do not ensure that operators adhere to proper operating procedures and decision-making processes two areas that are much more important for mitigating risks at sea. The vast majority of marine (and aviation) accidents are a result of operator error, not mechanical failure, it says.
Classing assures ship owners, insurers, and regulators that vessels are designed, constructed and inspected to accepted standards. Classing may be effective at filtering out unsatisfactory designers and builders, but the established standards do little to weed out subpar vessel operators because classing agencies only focus on validating the physical vessel, it reads.
By itself, classing is not sufficient to ensure safety, the blog post says."

So basically, vehicles that are inspected for mechanical safety have a low rate of mechanical failure...imagine that.