#media literacy be damned my boy can dickride

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So looks like one of the Oceangate subcontractors is already trying to change the narrative of the massive amounts of oversight and safety issues on the sub.

“It seems kind of cheesy, but if you knew the amount of technology that was packed in that controller and its capabilities, and the amount of money that it costs to develop something like that, it's just off the charts,” he said.

Completely ignoring the fact that the CEO had a investors buy into the project and his own net worth in the multi millions. One of these investors is B Dash Ventures which will typically invest 1.5 million into a project.

The most egregious quote from Doug "DJ" Virnig to me is the following:

Virnig said Titan’s pressure hull had passed tests at the non-profit Woods Hole Institute, which subjected it to the pressure found at the depth of the Titanic wreck — but the question was how it would perform over time.

“Well, if you do that repeatedly, then what happens?” he said.

“So these are the sorts of questions that if you have a long research and development program, you start answering. But if you really are pushing the envelope, there's no time to — you're answering those questions in real time.”

This isn't some new unexplored scientific venture where WE JUST DIDNT KNOW THE DANGER UWU. Oceangate was warned multiple times about the danger of their craft, they willfully ignored it and fired employees who brought it up. Titan was offered to undergo a voluntary safety inspection and REFUSED. Even though the team who offered told them a safety incident would not only affect Oceangate but the industry and research as a whole.

Trying to reframe these fuckers as brave innovators who just wanted to learn and not the blatant ego fueled hubris project it was is so scummy. They didn't want to learn they refused knowledge at every turn.

Don't be shocked to see this narrative repeated either, the media isn't stupid they have powerful investors, they've seen the public reaction to this and they are trying to protect their own assets and values.

DJ Virnig is probably just trying to protect his own ass as his work on oceangate is posted all over his linkedin but shame on the journalists who do not push back in the slightest on this.