iamshadow21
Amateur Forensics Geek
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OceanGate, the company behind the Titan submersible, exaggerated details of the industry partnerships behind the development and engineering of its sub.
On its website, the company said its “state-of-the-art vessel” was “designed and engineered by OceanGate Inc. in collaboration experts from NASA, Boeing and the University of Washington”.
But Boeing and the University of Washington have denied OceanGate’s claim that they helped design the sub. A Boeing spokesperson told ABC News:
The University of Washington also released a statement saying that it was not involved in creating OceanGate’s Titan submersible.
Nasa has confirmed it “consulted on materials and manufacturing processes for the submersible”. But a statement to Insider added:
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Titan tragedy: Canada launches investigation; CEO of sub company ‘dismissed safety fears’ – as it happened
Canadian transport watchdog to launch safety investigation; Stockton Rush reportedly emailed deep-sea expert saying concerns were ‘baseless cries’www.theguardian.com
See, this is one area I see as REALLY deceptive. Because NASA, Boeing, and UoW all have reputations. People associate, in particular, NASA and Boeing with a long pedigree of engineering and design that includes RIGOROUS testing and modelling and working out the kinks. Just putting 'in collaboration with NASA' makes my brain go, oh, wow, it's legit. You're putting the pedigree of NASA, the pedigree of Boeing, behind your craft like banners of endorsement. And people trust that branding. They trust universities, too. I know absolutely nothing about UoW's engineering and physics pedigrees, but I bet they're impressive enough to people who know science for OceanGate to namedrop them.
So yeah, when OceanGate says, "Trust me", what they're saying is, "Well, they trust us, are you going to question NASA? Because they helped us build this," and as a person who flunked most of science in high school - though I love it - because my learning disability means I can't do maths beyond a primary school level which means I can't do equations, I would be awed and go, "gosh, no, I love NASA, they've done so many amazing things." And I think many people WITHOUT learning disabilities would be equally awed. The CEO is an aerospace engineer, who, in collaboration with NASA, Boeing and UoW, built this wonderful, innovative machine to go to the bottom of the world, and you can go in it - safer than crossing the street - to see the most famous shipwreck in the world from only feet away, making you only one of a handful who have seen it that way since it sank. Just sign here, please...
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