Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search
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One of the news says the water temperature is around 2C (36F) down there.
That's what a friend of mine who used to work at Oceangate told me.
Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions who is currently entombed with four others aboard that cigar tube off Newfoundland, once said, during an interview with Teledyne Marine, that he refused to hire any "fifty year old white guys" with military experience, since they weren't in his view, "inspirational" enough and insisted upon younger people (read, far cheaper), all of whom will soon be looking for new jobs, once this tragedy hits the courts; and he added that, most anyone could be trained to use the Playstation® controller to pilot the Titan, at 4000 meters; or just some 386 atmospheres between friends.
Ironically enough, Rush, one of the whitest of that most tiresome cadre of wealthy San Franciscan, virtue-signaling, self-abasing white guys, at sixty-one, blithely fired those who questioned his vessel's integrity and its wholesale lack of emergency equipment; and who is now wholly dependent upon branches of the US military, whom he ridiculed for its "obsessional" safety, and the expertise of aging international rescuers and oceanographic specialists, many of whom I recently saw interviewed; a couple of whom I even knew offhand from years ago, who happen to be, variously, military, white, and / or over fifty, whom he would never consider hiring.
True to form, Rush also happens to be piloting the Titan and banging on its walls, perhaps even with his head by now -- and is certainly not, according to his very own definition, "inspirational" at all . . .
Ironically enough, Rush, one of the whitest of that most tiresome cadre of wealthy San Franciscan, virtue-signaling, self-abasing white guys, at sixty-one, blithely fired those who questioned his vessel's integrity and its wholesale lack of emergency equipment; and who is now wholly dependent upon branches of the US military, whom he ridiculed for its "obsessional" safety, and the expertise of aging international rescuers and oceanographic specialists, many of whom I recently saw interviewed; a couple of whom I even knew offhand from years ago, who happen to be, variously, military, white, and / or over fifty, whom he would never consider hiring.
True to form, Rush also happens to be piloting the Titan and banging on its walls, perhaps even with his head by now -- and is certainly not, according to his very own definition, "inspirational" at all . . .
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