170 - Hulls’-A-Poppin'

Recently watched a documentary about the Titan OceanGate Submersible disaster.

What really amazed me was how much the man whose hubris killed all those passengers, Stockton Rush, ignored the increasing popping and snapping sounds from the carbon fiber hull as pressure built and kept pushing it deeper and deeper anyway. Everybody was telling him they’re not an indication of how imminent a hull implosion is, that one could happen at any time, and was going to eventually, but he was one of those my-way-or-the-highway narcissistic buffoons that have become common anymore so of course instead of listening to his engineers, he fired all of them.

Where have we seen this kind of behavior before? How has it always ever worked out?

With an imploded hull.