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"The loss of the OceanGate submersible Titan appears to be an example of
warnings ignored.
“We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too
often,” OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush wrote in 2018, after being told
he was putting lives at risk using his experimental submersible Titan to ferry
customers to view the wreck of the Titanic almost 4,000 metres below sea level.
“I take this as a serious personal insult.”
Rush, who died along with four others with the Titan’s “catastrophic failure”
last week, was warned by marine technology experts as well as atleast one
employee (subsequently dismissed) that the carbon-fibre vessel risked
potentially “catastrophic” problems without rigorous testing and assessments.
Those boarding the Titan had to sign a waiver stating it was “an experimental
submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory
body which could result in physical injury, emotional trauma or death”. That
should have been warning enough.
But this is not about being wise after the event. Consulting firm Institute for
Crisis Management compiles statistics on crises across the globe every year. It
rates 46% of these as “smoldering” in nature – that is, likely to have occurred
after red flags or warning signs."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
