I am going to be a little more charitable towards the Titan submarine tragedy than my esteemed colleagues Jim Goad, Gunnar Alfredsson, and Thomas Steuben. (more…)
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I usually adhere to the Roman custom of only speaking well of the dead, but I will make an exception for Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and designer of the ill-fated Titan. As the Joker would say, “We live in a society.” OceanGate says a lot about that society, and I can’t help but see the funny side of the Titan’s catastrophic implosion. (more…)
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The story of a missing — later discovered to be destroyed — improvised submersible that had set out to visit the Titanic’s rusting hulk has been covered by every major news outlet on the planet over the past two weeks. (more…)
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Titanically Stupid: 61-Year-Old White Guy Who Refused to Hire “50-Year-Old White Guys” Perishes in Hubristic Deep-Sea Quest to Ogle the Titanic’s Ruins
One of last week’s biggest stories involved the deep irony that during a mission to venture two miles underwater merely so that its five inhabitants could gander at the Titanic, a clunky little submersible known as the Titan endured a “catastrophic implosion,” (more…)