‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’
fortune.com
“I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” he said, speaking from the interior of one of OceanGate’s submersibles. “I think it was [famous American General Douglas] MacArthur that said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break.’”
“I have broken some rules to make this,” he conceded. “I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fiber and titanium—there is a rule that you don’t do that. Well, I did.”
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I know it's petty, but I find it extremely frustrating that he likely didn't have enough time to realize just how wrong he was about everything before he died. He went to his death saying "No, it's the children who are wrong."
I read that it looks like they may have been making their ascent before imploding, which means he may have know about how bad it was before he died.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183975136/james-cameron-titanic-titan-sub
@vaguerant Yeah if you believe in an afterlife, another plane of existence.....that's when he'd put 2+2=4. Most likely he didn't even have time register it
@floofloof