The CEO of the company whose Titanic-seeking submarine has been missing for nearly two days once said safety was a “pure waste.”
The CEO of the company whose Titanic-seeking submarine has been missing for nearly two days once said safety was a “pure waste.”
There is a huge difference between acceptable risk and recklessness. Reading his interviews he was a cowboy and this was an inevitability. This was in essence a murder suicide.
There’s also the concept of informed risk, which realtes to informed consent, and this can be a big issue.
For example, if I ask a friend to come for a drive with me, they’ll likely say “yes” on the assumption that the car is road safe and I have passed my driving test. But if I wait until we’re already on the road to tell them that the fuel line sprays petrol into the footwell and the engine constantly misfires, then they agreed without understanding the full risks, and might have decided differently if they had all the info ahead of time.
I think any “reasonable person” would refuse to enter that sub if they were given a full understanding of the risks posed, and their likelihood.
You bring a great point and the one thing that boggles my mind in this disaster. Listening to the sub owner and reading his legal release, I can’t fathom (bad pun) signing on and saying sign me up! It’s like the same friend you mentioned told you the fuel line leaks but that’s ok, because the department of highway safety exists only to reduce profits and kill fun. We could make it to our destination or die in a fiery crash, YOLO.
I guess they thought since it’d gone down and up before it’d be fine. Chanced it one too many times.