As some one said:

"There is some sort of cosmic irony where the gravesite of a vessel containing a bunch of rich people who felt they could do what they want and they died became the grave site for a group of rich people who felt they could do what they want and died."

The best jokes always write themselves. I'm starting to believe that one of the hazards of wealth is a drastic decline in intelligence.

Well yeah, you get to pay your way out of situations and consequences and soon you don't NEED to think, you don't need to worry in the same way a person normally does because you can just "skip to the end", you don't need to do the footwork.

and I always find it funny when these people who are so used to pay their selves out of consequences in society, end up challenging nature and realize to their horror that nature doesn't take bribes.

Person: "I'm a wealthy individual and I can pay my way into doing whatever I want."

Nature: [crushed soda can dot jpeg]

When I heard about this accident I was reasonably sure it imploded... then I learned how and what the hull was made of I was positive it imploded.

Who ever thought using carbon fiber was a good idea should have been on the sub. From a design perspective I can do a long list of why it was a bad idea to used mixed material construction in the pressure hull...

This is what happens when things like ESG and woke ideology get in the way of common sense. I wonder if the CEO will be nominated for a Darwin Award?

"Who ever thought using carbon fiber was a good idea should have been on the sub". He was.
The thing is Carbon Fiber specifically the resin that binds those fibers has a narrow temperature margin
where its maximum strength can be utilized. Beyond those temperature margins it become glass.
That's why Elon Musk rejected Carbon Fiber and went straight to stainless steel for
Starship due to Stainless Steel high tolerance to temperature differences despite its heavier weight.
About a mile below the ocean surface average temperatures are close to freezing.
Carbon Fiber polymers 1 mile down at near freezing doesn't act like Carbon Fiber polymers at room temperature.
If Carbon Fiber was a viable material to build subs the world's navies would have adopted it long ago.
But hey . . . having a team of white men in their fifties is bad right?
Good riddance.

In the case of this pressure vessel all the fibers were in compression... not carbon fibers strong points. It's like pushing a car with a rope soaked in resin. When the resin matrix fails it's going to be catastrophic as it did... I can find many questionable practices done on this build it was not a matter of if it was a matter of when it was going to fail.

Under high pressure plastics do strange things that are unexpected like becoming soft and pliable. Or fracturing within the matrix.

The guy paid for his ignorance and arrogance sadly he took four others with him.

I'm no engineer of any kind but using carbon composites as a pressure vessel in compression seems to me to be a clown-world decision. It is my understanding that using carbon composites at all is only indicated when weight is a primary consideration and that cannot be true of a submarine. I would really like to see the decision tree (like there is one) that led to that decision.

The guy they fired for calling this submersible a safety hazard must have a good few words for this company. Probably the biggest “I told you so” this year. That guy didn't cave in to pressure.

He dodged a bullet too because now he's in the clear from being investigated for negligent homicide.

https://youtu.be/NMsr0D6pc7o

The only good thing that came out of this is the CEO died in the underwater coffin he built with parts from Camper World. I do feel sorry for his foolish passengers who did not do an about face when they laid eyes on that Logitec Controller used to control the sub. The one person who did run away when he saw the controller is alive today because he had common sense.