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kleinbl00  ·  510 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Titan Submersible Was “an Accident Waiting to Happen”

I have mouthed many things about this submersible before it appeared in print. It was an "undergraduate engineering degree" bad idea. It was a "composites 101" bad idea. It was a "life safety 101" bad idea. But one sentence in this article stands out above all others:

    “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me.