Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon (Post 3656125)

"I think I can do this just as safely while breaking the rules."

The Titan sub was never checked to see if it was up to standard because of its "innovation," OceanGate said in 2019. The sub features a carbon fiber hull that had never been used on submersibles before, according to the "Unsung Science" podcast.

In the podcast episode, Pogue said the sub's build — which includes "MacGyvered" ceiling lights and an Xbox controller for navigating the vessel — as well as the safety waiver, gave him cause for concern.

In a 2019 interview, Rush lamented "obscenely safe" diving security regulations, although he said he understood the rules.

Originally Posted by John Carr (Post 3656119)

Sorry, please accept my humblest apologies. “My bad……”

Show where I’m mocking him for not being an airline pilot, please.

https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status...34074127581184

Or you can just google the terms “Stockton 50 year old white guys” and pick the source you choose.

It’s a sad/tragic event. But get over yourself, it’s hard to feel sympathy for someone that stated something so galactically stupid.

When you’re done with that;

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tit...les-in-design/

And after that;

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...fety-for-years

I know, in your usual DEI/virtue signaling style, you’ll have a contrite response, save it. We’ll have to agree to disagree.

You wanna wag your finger and flame me, jump into this thread and do it with everyone there’s also;

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/s...e-missing.html

What you’re saying is akin to NOT speak of someone that tried to climb Everest without properly training/equipping themselves, conning people to go with them, then having the WRONG outcome.

Originally Posted by John Carr (Post 3656119)

Sorry, please accept my humblest apologies. “My bad……”

Show where I’m mocking him for not being an airline pilot, please.

https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status...34074127581184

Or you can just google the terms “Stockton 50 year old white guys” and pick the source you choose.

It’s a sad/tragic event. But get over yourself, it’s hard to feel sympathy for someone that stated something so galactically stupid.

When you’re done with that;

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tit...les-in-design/

And after that;

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...fety-for-years

I know, in your usual DEI/virtue signaling style, you’ll have a contrite response, save it. We’ll have to agree to disagree.

You wanna wag your finger and flame me, jump into this thread and do it with everyone there’s also;

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/s...e-missing.html

What you’re saying is akin to NOT speak of someone that tried to climb Everest without properly training/equipping themselves, conning people to go with them, then having the WRONG outcome.

Originally Posted by hummingbear (Post 3656365)

Honestly, I was only responding very specifically to your snarky comment about him possibly having purchased sim time from TK- which is all this thread was about to that point.

Originally Posted by hummingbear (Post 3656365)

For me personally, the idea that he could be responsible for multiple deaths through willful negligence is far more damning than the fact that he once spoke unfawningly of old white guys (per forum rules I’m allowed one contrite virtue signal per post), so I might lead with that next time. But I wasn’t trying to defend him against anything more than purchasing a type rating course when he was young.

Originally Posted by hummingbear (Post 3608815)

Perhaps if you considered my smug, arrogant persona a way of irritating forum patrons like yourself you’d find it more amusing? Just a suggestion…

Originally Posted by John Carr (Post 3656392)

Where was my post SPECIFICALLY about that?

Originally Posted by Airhoss (Post 3656410)

Stockton seems to be the very epitome of privileged old white guy and I’ll add spoiled rotten. A man who won’t be told no, who can’t take criticism and one who has always gotten his way. He even weaponized DEI to make sure there were no impediments to the use of his submersible toy. A spoilt rich kid simply can’t have experienced deep sea engineers, safety experts and seasoned submariners telling him that his toy is a death trap, therefore no old white guys allowed!

The authoritarian left is all about regime and its reign of power being unquestioned and maintained at all costs, truth be damned. It’ll be interesting to see how this one is covered, and smoothed over since the chief perpetrator was of the evil oppressor class.

Originally Posted by hummingbear (Post 3656521)

Am I going crazy? There are exactly three posts that precede yours. They are about nothing other than a news story that Rush had a type rating from UAL & speculation that he had purchased training time as a non-employee. (Nothing about race; nothing about criminal negligence.) Your response (post #4): “wow, how inspirational…” My assumptionwas that your post was germane to the rest of the thread. (Which, again, to that point was only about the type rating.) If that is incorrect, I apologize. I don’t understand, but I apologize.

Originally Posted by hummingbear (Post 3656098)

Not sure now is the time to mock the guy simply for not having been an airline pilot.

Originally Posted by John Carr (Post 3656552)

1) There’s a saying about assumptions

2) Someone could have posted “Stockton had silver hair”, I would have responded the same. Someone could posted “Stockton? Isn’t that in CA?” I would have posted the same.

But since you were ignorant of the man, maybe some SA on the front end of this and what an idiot he was would have helped you out?

It seems you are irritated?

Maybe my postings are to irritate forum patrons such as yourself? You think you’re the first to think of that concept?

Think about it, maybe you’ll find it amusing….