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necroprancer@lemmy.fmhy.ml to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.

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A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.

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necroprancer@lemmy.fmhy.ml to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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The director of marine operations at OceanGate was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull.
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    It was a shitty Logitech. At least buy some proper Xbox ones, dammit.

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      I have one of them and it was a piece of shit

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      I just have this image of them stuck somewhere halfway down with a broken controller and no way to surface getting pulled along by the current what a horrible way to die

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        beating on the hull with the broken controller.

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      Considering the company they would Probably buy some crapp Chinese knockoff that only works on android

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