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Stockton Rush, the millionaire founder and CEO of OceanGate, Inc. and Xbox-controller-wielding pilot of the Titan, was confirmed dead on Thursday after his nonrated, custom-made submersible predictably imploded
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Alongside him died Hamish Harding, a British billionaire; Shahzada Dawood, a Pakistani millionaire, and his son Suleman; and French billionaire Paul-Henri Nargeolet,
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Rush’s philosophy for his undersea exploration company was, “I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules.”
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David Lochridge, an engineer on the sub, thought differently in 2018, pointing out, among other flaws, that the main viewing port was only rated to a dive depth of 1,300 meters, less than a third of the depth to the seafloor where the wreck of the Titanic lies. He was promptly fired.
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The most recent example is the horrific capsizing of a ship carrying at least five hundred migrants off the coast of Greece, which has killed at least seventy-eight people. In stark contrast to the all-out, multinational effort to save the Titan, the Greek Coast Guard has been accused of deadly inaction after discovering the ship dead in the water and dangerously overcrowded.
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between 2015 and 2023, it’s estimated that over twenty-four thousand people are dead or missing after setting out for Europe, including over 1,100 this year alone. That’s more than a Titanic every year, but you don’t see the same kind of breathless, wall-to-wall news coverage.
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sorrowful odysseys of migrant ships don’t sell papers because, for one thing, those papers are usually in bed with the draconian, inhumane, and vengeful regimes that allow such horrible fates to befall migrants in the first place