Death by corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), also known colloquially as ‘wokeism’, is unfortunately becoming a theme.
If you have been following the story of a missing deep water tourist submarine run by a company called OceanGate®, perhaps this part of the untold story might provide some ironic context for the current crisis.
“The search for a missing Titanic tourist submersible continued Wednesday as experts fear the watercraft may have only a day’s supply of oxygen left” (more).
The CEO of OceanGate, the company that has created a tourism industry around underwater exploration, is a man named Stockton Rush. Two years ago, Mr. Rush was interviewed about his company and how they operate; his outlook on the personnel he hired might explain the crisis.
According to Mr. Rush, he intentionally did not want to hire a certain kind of submariner expert for his corporate endeavor, because that would only bring ex-military submariners into the company. In his own words he explains how he did not want to hire “50-year-old white guys“, and instead preferred a more diverse and younger workforce to represent the operational face of the company. Diversity, equity and inclusion was the priority. VIDEO at 27:10, WATCH:
https://youtu.be/YH0qRx5eYkY?t=1630
Given the legal liabilities now present, the video will likely be scrubbed. However, there is a certain irony in the decisions around corporate human resources and operational priority, given the fact that all the rescue missions are being led by “50-year-old white guys.”
[…] U.S. and Canadian crews began searching for the underwater vessel Sunday after the 22-foot submersible, named Titan, lost contact with a support ship while carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic. (more)
Grandma’s rules apply to further commentary. I digress.
Well, he’s on board, so I guess we won’t be able to say “I told you so”.
And Mr. Rush is undboutly staring at those he hired wishing they were ex-military 50 year old white guys. And more so, I am ex-Navy. I served in the late 90’s and early 2000’s….there were a lot more than white guys, this tells me how much of a bigot Mr. Rush pretends not to be.
With all of the insane DIE protocols taking over every company these days, every time I get on an airplane and see a 50 year old white guy who looks like he is ex-military walk into the cockpit, I thank God for such men and then I sit down and enjoy my flight!
Tons of information can be provided…wisdom passed along….but you can’t teach experience.
Wisdom can only be passed along to those who are willing to receive it! Unfortunately, that does not include most of the current crop of cultural elites, who are quite convinced that they are the smartest people in the room! They may be academically gifted but they are intellectually lazy and most have zero real life experience!
Same thing at the doctor’s office, and the dentist’s, and the attorney’s. I hate to paint with a broad brush, but I want a white guy 55 or older when I need guaranteed expertise.
For me, they don’t need to be white but they need to have experience.
And this is the side of the DEI BS (previously Affirmative Action) those bigots who push it ignore: it unfairly detracts front those minorities who did do the work, get the grades, pass the tests, and earn the experience. It’s a natural response to the lowering of standards to meet quotas.
YES!! Exactly!! Look at Clarence Thomas – by far the greatest intellect on SCOTUS today, who, unfortunately has to work alongside people like Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, both of whom were flat out given their positions because of the boxes they checked, and clearly not because of their grasp on the finer points of Constitutional Law!
A white 50-yo, in a company truck and uniform came to fix a wall phone connection. He left, stumped. Later, in his own pickup truck and wearing jeans and a T-shirt, with a BS in Electrical Engineering, a young black man came and fixed it. Having my own BS in Engineering we had a good laugh about it. I told him to be patient, it’ll happen. I hope I was right.
Exactly, you don’t need to lower standards to be diverse. I’m 45. In my 45 years on Earth, I’ve heard and been taught nothing but judge by character not skin color. Interestingly a majority of our politicians must have missed this lesson over the last 45 years. As have others apparently.
The standards to get into medical school and graduate are way lower than they used to be. I don’t trust any doctor under 50. I prefer a 50+ white or East Asian man. Why risk an AA doctor?
Respectfully, the issue is with the need to “Trust your dr.” if by that you mean taking their medical advice, rather than doing your OWN research, and OWNING that YOU, NOT the dr., make all decisions regarding your healthcare.
Comedian Jimmy Dore, on the Vax;
I tell.my friend I am going to buy a car, and am going to research it first.
“Oh, NO! DON’T research it!”
“Well, then how will i know which car to buy?”
“Oh,, just ASK THE SALESMAN, thats what they are FOR!”
“Trust your Dr.”, sheesh.
Trust but verify. With your Dr. this is the most important time to practice that philosophy.
I have flown only 2x since TSA became a thing.
I’m not just a soldier’s mom, I’m an USAF brat. Flying was once as comfortable as driving. Not doing it anymore & am especially glad to not do so since the stewardess staff turned into covid nazis.
Live by the DIE, die by the DIE.
THIS!!!!
If rescued will likely be because of 50-year old white guys.
Bigot? Against old white men? That unfavored class cannot be discriminated against … they hold all the power. /sarc.
These days some old white men are more equal than others.
(Hat tip to G. Orwell…)
Yes, guess he prefers a more inspirational grave site at the bottom of the Atlantic, albeit an unmarked grave.
“Hoist with his own petard ”
and
Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
1 Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm does bind the restless wave,
Who bids the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
2 O Savior, whose almighty word
The winds and waves submissive heard,
Who walked upon the foaming deep,
And calm amid the rage did sleep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
3 O Holy Spirit, who did brood
Upon the waters dark and rude,
And bid their angry tumult cease,
And give for wild confusion peace;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
4 O Trinity of love and pow’r,
Your children shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire, and foe,
Protect them where-so-e’er they go;
Thus, evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Amen.
Titan submersible maker OceanGate faced safety lawsuit in 2018: “Potential danger to passengers”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-submarine-oceangate-hull-safety-lawsuit/
The 50 y.o. would have commented on the rigged-up, b.s. equipment.
The kids don’t know enough/have enough caution to demand better.
And the ride to the titanic starts at $250k.
Kind of an expensive funeral, if you ask me.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
wait, lemme catch myLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
let them eat seaweed.
And they are. Wait is it too soon?
I saw that; and some of us worry about roads, bridges, and tall buildings now that immutable characteristics matter so much more than merit.
I’m still holding out a tiny hope that there will be a miraculous rescue, while acknowledging that their time has probably run out.
One of the owners of the side company (I think), gave a press conference….his voice was trembly and his hands were shaking while he held the papers he was using….at first I thought it was an announcement of a failed rescue, he was so shaken so badly.
My heart aches but again…why?
I feel for him but this situation should have been game planned by the company. All risks to their operations should have bene mapped out since they are providing a dangerous service to the public. They should have a emergency response procedure to follow in the event a sub sinks or goes “missing.” Procedures for not just how to handle the situation but for how to handle the media.
They may have but usually you don’t put someone in front of the camera that is emotionally shaken.
Sad for the families.
I read somewhere the step-son went to a Blink-182 concert and people were giving him a hard time. He was like there is nothing he could do and the band makes him feel better. Can’t say as I blame him, I might of tried to disguise myself or something, but when you live on Social Media everyone knows what you are doing.
Because you are human and this wreck has taken 5 additional lives?
There are. 1.God 2. Line 8 of the greatest document ever written
And you only have to look as far back as a week or two ago to find an example: I-95 collapsing in Philly.
Oh my gosh did you see the video of the Buttplug showing up? Made me sick. Had to force him to East Palestine but he was almost dancing to Philly where all the democrats vote.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…and I believe Grandma would wholeheartedly approve that sentiment!
Future headline: “OceanGate files for Bankruptcy, but is also suing families for lost submarine.” News at 11:00.
Before I got married, my intended was spending 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for almost a year, near Idaho Falls, learning about submarines (nuclear) systems and operations…a real sub in a swimming pool, so to speak…
Give me a 50-65 year old dude any day over DE-I. Back in the day, the USN sub program was very selective and very intense.
Go Navy!
It’s not just the sub program. I only had the option to go carrier or subs for my job in the Navy. A lot of the Navy’s top jobs, two in particular, are very selective for obvious reasons: Nukes and Aviation Electronics Techs. I was a Nuke….at the point in time I graduated from school, it was approximately a 65-75% failure rate. AET’s were the same….you can’t have idiots operating reactors and you cant’ have idiots working on aircraft electronics.
So this CEO’s stance is ridiculous and again highlights the go woke, go broke paradigm. A paradigm many ignore cuz of Blackrock.
And as I mentioned above, the Navy is not white. It’s pretty damn diverse. My wedding party was made up of sailors I served with: one Indian, one black guy, a Dominican from Jersey, and a white guy. My wedding party picture demonstrates even if he wanted to meet DEI standards, he could’ve done so with non-white 50 plus ex-military guys.
Yes, yes and yes! Nuke crew…in for 3 months out for 3 months. Blue and Gold. Also a “Brotherhood”….
A boomer….I was on a target, I had friends who were fasties and others that went your route, the boomer route.
They didn’t care what color you were either. The Navy nukes I know are pretty diverse. The only common thread is most are sharp as a tack.
Jimmy Carter was a nuclear submariner as well. Some may be smart, but still lack situational awareness.
Political beneficiary of an Annapolis appointment. I know quite a few of them also. Let’s just say they are book smart.
Now imagine this sort of lunatic thinking when hiring people such as air traffic controllers, pilots, doctors, nurses, architects, civil engineers, etc, etc.
I do not believe we have to imagine at all.
Hiring practices for those I just named are in effect.
I doubt any of us will be traveling in a submarine any time soon, if ever…but as for coming into contact with the rest which I mentioned or their work?
Good luck everyone.
50-year-old, ex-military might be handy about right now, huh?
There was one other benefit of not hiring that 50 y.o., ex-mil.,
M O N E Y.
The young’uns are cheaper. Oh, and…”inspirational.”
Palo Verde was happy for a 60 something’s expertise and paid very well, for it.
“Inspirational…” The new word for “expendable.”
Darwinism filtering out the far left.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity – DIE there – fixed it for you.
Division. Inequity. Exclusion.
Reality.
Quotable Mycroft, right there.
30 years in law enforcement in the 4th largest city in the country, attained the rank of Commander, the highest you can go through our test-driven promotional system. Never appointed Assistant Chief and could not find a small-town Chief of Police position to lateral into, so I retired at 56. Very happy in retirement, but clearly, no positions out there for “50(+) year old white guys.”
Even if the town was “lily” white overall demographically, they wanted a minority Chief of some kind, so…it’s EVERYWHERE.
“The Best Man for the Job” is now history.
As demonstrated by our own President.
Really!?
”Best man for the job”
sounds like you need more diversity training bigot./s
Yep. Ever notice how many Chiefs and other high positions are women or black men? Makes no sense given the pool of applicants. I always assume it’s an AA job and have zero respect for them.
Chiefs are a very political position. Most cities are run by Dems. Ergo…
Can leave the Dems out and just replace it with people because the Repubs are just as bad.
“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.” – Alexander Hamilton
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.” – Thomas Jefferson
AND
“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.” – Thomas Jefferson
Both my Grandma’s were no nonsense, plain spoken women. I don’t know what Grandma’s Rules might be.
If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it.Or maybe, “Don’t speak ill of the dead.”
My father’s favorite: better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt 😂
Yeah, I also have a saying: “I didn’t like them when they were alive; why would I like them now that they’re dead.”
Go woke, go broke; I hope he’s happy he hired the most rainbow hued people he could find and gave them the best inspirational on the job training the private sector could provide.
In the words of Bugs Bunny, ‘Whadda maroon!”
Unfortunately that is exactly who is (manning) the rescue operation not to mention paying for it.
Looks like in a decent rainstorm, this guy might drown anyway, his nose is so far up in the air. Just sayin’.
This whole contraption and operation is soooo sketchy…. Why anyone would entrust their lives in this tube controlled by an XBox game controller and lead construction piping for ballast is beyond me….
TGP was reporting a lot of the structural components came from places like Home Depot and local hardware stores.
Kind of makes the old saying “the tools of war contracts go to the lowest bidder”?
…as said by a 50 something white guy.. Mind boggling. Maybe people will start to realize woke is literally dangerous.
Probably the passengers didn’t know about his hiring philosophy.
Poor ship of fools…
I have a friend who pilots his own jet 500 hours a year. He said the air traffic controllers because of diversity are the worst he has experienced.
The irony is if they’re saved it will be by white people.
At the end of the day…if I were to fly…and I won’t, but….if the pilot is smart, can operate under pressure and check his ego at the gate, knows what he is doing…and is above average in competency and intelligence…
I don’t much care if he is gay. Or black. Or a woman. I want a human who knows what they are doing whether sailing a ship or flying a plane.
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IMHO, regarding the DE-I stuff….those folks can’t think or function beyond the outrage of their pronouns.
This is classic Rand. Atlas is Shrugging.
So…..what was the majority ethnicity of the men who developed that aerospace program? Anyone care to take a guess?
I believe it was the Navajo
Another wealthy know-it-all did not realize that schools don’t teach math anymore. One has to be over 50 to realize that Computer models don’t KNOW anything.
Darwin Award winner.
Must be waiting for the graduates of the Iranian Institute of Flying Carpets and Goat Nonbinary Sexual Partners to head his new venture of Transporting to Uranus.
Whatever happened to those?
If you were going to start a lawnmower company would you hire people that don’t have lawns, have never mowed a lawn, and could care less about home ownership? That would be what this guy did.
Shoot the lawn companies here hire anyone that can push and walk at the same time.. they don’t even have to speak the local language, let alone have any experience
My nephew is an instructor at Kings Bay. There was a time when they took this stuff very, very seriously. You weren’t getting in unless you were the best of the best. The idea that merit counts for nothing is insane. Some people are smarter at certain things than others. Some people work harder than others. Some people have unbelievable street smarts when under pressure. The idea that none of that is of value to an enterprise, I give you two shining examples. NASA, and General Motors. All talk. No action. General Motors managed to deliver two electric Hummers and 86 electric Cadillacs in the first quarter of 2023. Yet Mary Barra stands up there and tells you with a smile that they’re going to produce 600,000 electric Silverados next year. They just bailed on the chargers, even though they have hoovered up billions and billions from the federal government to develop a charger. Incompetence is taking down the western world. Fools like this guy who don’t understand and value competence and merit, are just as big of a problem
Kings Bay…memories of stories about the tinder…am talking 40+ years ago…But you are so right…and today, innate talents are not truly developed. Its more like ‘if you want’ to do something, you are in.
I wonder if he would apply that same philosophy if he needed a heart surgeon.
How about just cataract surgery? Trusting a surgeon with one’s eyes is pretty high on the ‘concern’ list too.
Mayor Pete in charge of transportation/infrastructure is so comforting.
Comforting?
Would YOU sit on Mayor Pete’s lap?
lol
What would you talk about? 😬
Ha!
I’ll let that one go. 😄😄
“White 50 Y.O.” Probably also had a keen eye as to safety of that tube.
We may be assuming too much here, maybe they just wouldn’t get in “that thing”
(edit to clarify)
Maybe the 50 Yr. Olds refused the job to pilot that tube.
Indeed so.
David Lochridge was terminated in January 2018 after presenting a scathing quality control report on the vessel to OceanGate’s senior management, including founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who is on board the missing vessel.
According to a court filing by Lochridge, the preamble to his report read: “Now is the time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel. Verbal communication of the key items I have addressed in my attached document have been dismissed on several occasions, so I feel now I must make this report so there is an official record in place.”
The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.” These are the huge pressure changes that the submersible would experience as it made its way and from the deep ocean floor. He noted that a previously tested scale model of the hull had “prevalent flaws.”
Article and video here: Titan Sub: OceanGate CEO Didn’t Want to Hire ’50-Year-Old White Guys’ Because They’re Not ‘Inspirational’
They are or at least were, used to the best of the best from general dynamics, GE, etc…so if what TGP was reporting, I am sure they would have a problem with hardware store components and XBox controllers….
I also heard some one say that our subs don’t go that deep in the ocean.
The Xbox controller is a distraction. It’s not the issue. It’s a smart way to tie generations together for control purposes. The military also uses Xbox controllers to operate drones. It’s used for a lot of very technical operations- Microsoft and Sony with their PS5 controller have created some very sophisticated control units.
The engineering behind the sub is suspect based on the comments (and shared links). That is what will come to the surface after sorrows for the families are shared.
A depth of 12,500 feet, which is 2.367 miles, is no place for “tourists”.
A prayer for their safety and for the safety of responders.
I cannot fathom that…(no pun intended)….I hope it has a happy ending.
I got dizzy when we got to the top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mt. Park….where the sign told you that you were 2 miles UP!
2,083 fathoms…Lol
Same principles are being used to hire pilots for airlines. Soon, you’ll be reading about planes crashing and killing hundreds that were “piloted” by the best DIE now (diversity-inclusion-equity) candidates. As a result of corporate desire to make me DRT (dead right there) due to a DIE buffoon, I won’t be flying anymore, the very thing I did for nearly 40 years.
The number of near misses lately seem to verify your theory.
Not a theory. Have multiple buddies who decided to take jobs as instructors after their retirement and their assessment of new entrants are not glowing.
The people making these policy decisions fly private.
Larry Fink.
What smudge Ass H+++
I still see a bunch of 30 something White People.
So he gave up experience to trash older men with similar melanin levels.
Let the lawsuits begin.
Age-ism. Discriminatory. There were laws against that, once upon a time….
There still are and against DEI….
If you have applied for any jobs lately- they all ask about race, ethnicity, and whether or not your disabled. You don’t have to answer but guess what happens when you select decline? I have no direct proof….but I’m sure the AI put in place to scan apps and resumes dumps it to the not a chance bin.
Still hoping for a recovery, regardless of the company using no sense.
Christ sake, life jackets you can buy for a hundred bucks come with GPS transmitters nowadays. You mean they’ve got a submarine with no beacon whatsoever? Any 50 year old white guy would have insisted upon that. I hate second-guessing a man who dared to do something tremendous, and is now dying on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean. But my word, doesn’t he own a f****** mirror?
Yes, he does but he only sees a glow when he looks into it…because his stance is so benevolent. He should of stuck to his high horse rather than a submarine.
I feel for the loved ones, the customers, and their loved ones. People will lose fathers, brothers, and sons when they finally admit it is lost.
re: “life jackets you can buy for a hundred bucks come with GPS transmitters”
Ah, no, those are PLB’s (Personal Locator Beacons) that transmit GPS _location_ on 406 MHz, not on the 1575.42 MHz frequency of the GPS sats … but they won’t work under water in any case.
Sadly, if the hull were compromised at that depth and pressure, everything engineered to sustain an environment (and life) at sea-level contained within that hull would likely also be compromised.
Life jackets and “PLB’s” are, if not mistaken, of little practicle use under 2+miles of ocean.
I read a DailyMail article that they relied on Musk’s Starlink and would lose communication with the mother ship at times during the voyage down.
A meritocracy is not just common sense, it’s life and death.
Ghislaine Maxwell is supposed to be a competent submariner. Is she still in prison. Was she ever in prison?
Maybe this is a “great escape”? Money or legal issues? “Lost at sea” has been used many times in the past.
Arrogant like the Titanic captain. I do pray they can be saved.
Fools or not, may God rest their souls and may their families find peace.
So he hired gamers instead of someone who knew about subs
I’m having a week of DEI and 20-30 year old males who can not pay their bills and think someone else should just write a check and pay the bill for them.
This stupid sub is in trouble because without 50+ year old men and women these morons in the younger age ranges are on paternity leave and calling churches to pay their rent.
We are in big trouble. Not just because the morons on paternity leave can’t pay their rent, use a game controller for a sub, but they are raising the next generation.
It’s only Wednesday.
And, over here it has been a very long Wednesday at that!
I am laughing, but its not funny. esp the wednesday part.
It’s funny, really funny except when you are trying to explain to a 30 yo that you can not pay their rent because the amount you can pay will not cover their entire rent and there are seniors (old white guys) whose electric bill can be paid with the money.
Then when you go further in trying to explain that there are not enough charities to pay his bills and he might have to get a job (but he’s got a 4 day old infant) and he replies that he’ll call more charities and call me back.
I need it to be Friday almost as much as he needs a job.
Bet he c0uld get one on the submarine.
Their O2 runs out tomorrow morning. Hopefully they may be yet rescued.
In their hypermetabolic states of fear and panic/fight or flight mechanisms, if still alive, are probably coming close now, to depleting the oxygen…not my area of expertise but am guessing….
a horrible truth.
The 2 “white guys” on the video with Stockton Rush didn’t volunteer to quit their jobs and hand them over to a more diverse replacement.
I sincerely hope they rescue all the passengers alive and well–but if not–Stockton’s “virtuous” woke policies certainly did not ensure he had the best available and most experienced employees overseeing the deep dive.
Perilous trips into the depths of the ocean should never be tainted by “feel good liberal foolishness.” I wonder if Stockton is pondering this as the limited oxygen depletes in the vessel. I hope he and the other passengers will have more years ahead to reflect but wokeness that callously dismisses the firing of “older white guys” and pleases insane white liberals is not the same as killing a crew and its passengers.
Well, they seem young and I guess there’s a girl or two, but they sure are white.
You think other CEO’s and HR department will reconsider their hiring polic(ies) and lower their DEI score?
You’re more optimistic than I am.
Irony is so ironic.
Sure, gamers using their joy stick to navigate the world. Training without experience can be very risky.
The tapping coming from the submarine is morse code.
PLEASE SEND THE WHITEST SUBMARINER IMMEDIATELY!
one hundred years from now…proven tested reliable submarine ventures will continue to commercialize transits to the titanic. I really doubt many people will be interested in visiting the site of the never to be woken crew of this sub. It might get mentioned as a side note, but then probably not. That’s the problem now with future expeditions to the titanic. Why do human beings even want to go that deep, when there are perfectly suitable robotic subs that can do all of that with far greater viewing capability, lingering for days on end, even miniaturized robotic UWV that can probably go tether free into the inner compartments of this ship? I just don’t get it. There is no new science produced from the experience. We already know what caused the sinking: bad design and worse leadership.
huh…I guess some things never do change. Who needs an iceberg?
the guy has a long history of being a second rate engineer and has outlandish views of the future.
a. the submarine could have been properly registered and examined as a submarine proper, but the costs of doing so would have made his “ventures” cost prohibitive for a one off custom sub. So he registered this sub as “experimental”. The question many are having is that why the USCG would allow commercial passengers aboard an “experiment” if we look for example to the experimental and even the light sport aircraft segment there are hundreds of limits in law and rules placed on owners and pilots who operate them. altitude, flying for hire, and inspections. this does not appear to have been applied to this one off custom experimental sub. What could go wrong, did
b. there are MANY commercial submarines that he could have chosen to buy and use for this venture. All proven, all registered and properly tested and evaluated. Why he chose to manufacture an unproven design, with the serious safety designs ignored…such as a positive buoyancy model with ballast is a big red flag. Also why the hull was engineered to have a 6 inch thickness, but was only built to 5. Also why there is no equipment designed or OFF THE SHELF to perform routine non destructive testing. It appears this sub has never been tested since 2018. That’s a long time and many deep psi cycles without being curious about structural integrity.
b. What I have read is that this guy is something of a egomaniac…who does not like to hear criticism and constructive feedback. Most of the original support team left the company because of his lack of communication and responsiveness to legitimate concerns and even ideas about how to improve safety.
c. He’s been cited as stating that humans living IN THE OCEAN..>UNDER IT. is the best way for civilization to survive the inevitable global heat crisis. Yes, he actually believes we will live under the ocean.
It was always going to be a one way ticket to the darwin show for this guy.
stay tuned next week, when we see similar problems with commercial pax space flights by the likes of virgin galactic and blue origin.
God Bless America
noting: the response by the USCG has been phenomenal and continues to impress me. It still remains true, that no matter where you are, and how stupid you were to put yourself in harms way, the USCG will come and find you and save your life. I respect that. I admire it. And it’s the number of reasons I joined and served a very long time ago. The mission remains alive. Semper Paratus
“Yes, he actually believes in global warming”, THAT should have been a red flag, for everyone involved, but was probably a green one for the loonies.
Semper Paratus brother
USCG ’77 – ’81
A two hundred and fifty thousand dollar coffin.
Testing is expensive, life is cheap. mRNA was injected in billions of people with the same hubris.
Who is the Insurance underwriter for this business venture? They should be named publically and driven out of business for underwriting an endeavor that puts DIE ahead of safety and reliability.
Any lawsuits against the submersible company should include major lawsuits against the insurance company for going rogue and embracing DIE at the expense of people’s safety.
“given the fact that all the rescue missions are being led by 50-year-old white guys…..” – I noted the same thing! So now Stockton will be a victim of his own worldview.
Hopefully the CEO will be personally sued to oblivion and chastised in criminal court, as well as the company liquidated for rescue costs as well as liability to victims or their families.
Why does the Costa Concordia captain pop up in my mind.
All the quarter million dollar ticket holders/passengers signed a liability waiver.
Which will never hold up. Liability is granted upon the failure of the company to provide qualified operators. By this video it is evidenced.
I’d wager my midlife career in risk mgmt, the CEO lied about the pilot’s qualifications in the “waiver”.
I’m in the same field….spot on comment Alley
You can sign a liability waiver for yourself. You can’t sign a liability waiver for relatives or others who may have their own claims arising from a death.
Those waivers become moot if they didn’t follow protocols for safety. Waivers are not final. Nor do they absolve OceanGate (seriously, that’s their name) of their responsibility to ensure the safety of their passengers. OceanGate has a duty they owe their customers.
Yep!
Heaven’s Gate 2
The CEO is currently inside the submersible…. 🤷♀️
Is he really?
Yes!! He is on it!
Fr/ the Milwaukee Journal Link in SD’s article:
Who is on the Titanic submersible? 5 passengersPassengers aboard the submersible are British businessman Hamish Harding, Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and two members of a Pakistani business family Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
It’s possible that the stress of the situation, the realization that the oxygen will soon be running out and the owner of the company is within choking reach, may give the passengers something to think about.
Do you mean like “This idiot got us into this mess, and now he’s taking up too much oxygen”?
Too bad they can’t open a door and throw him out.
In some situations there’s a vote to see who is on the menu.
In this one, I can see a vote to decide who stops consuming oxygen.
Yes. Asleep in the deep.
Exactly, are any of them
That would be perfect and well deserved!
Go Woke… Go … GULP?
It may just be the personnel psychologist in me, but I would wager the CEO still has time left to re-think his employment policy….Pure Irony.
CEO is onboard the missing submarine. Getting sued is the last of his worries sadly
He’s on the sub in peril.
He will be dead if not rescued. However, his estate may be fair game depending on the strength of the corporate vail.
In the late 1990’s my brother-in-laws family – both parents, a sister and her husband – perished with other tourists, as they went on a helicopter tour of the old volcanoes. They signed liability waivers, too, but the family members of all the deceased filed a joint civil suit against the helicopter company and won a multi-million dollar settlement.
If a company causes the deaths of several people, it doesnt matter that they signed some kind of waiver.
My understanding is the CEO is one of the missing sub’s occupants.