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“There is a very obvious culture of safety among the crew. I mean, this thing is run like a rocket launch with Long countdowns and checklists and inspections and mandatory twice daily briefings, even if you're not diving, you have to be there, where they go thr…”

“Secondly, it had made 20 uneventful dives to the Titanic depths and back. Without a blink.”

“Thirdly, probably the most famous, one of the most famous living Titanic explorers in the world, P.H. Nargele was on board as an Ocean Gate employee. He had been looking over the design, construction, and testing of the Titan submersible and fully approved.”

“Stockton first made a one-third scale model. Nobody talks about this. He took it to the University of Washington, subjected it to pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, until it imploded to see what the level of pressure was that it could handle.”

“I believe that he's correct, meaning submarine pilot, that it's not the carbon fiber, it's the dissimilar materials connected to it. So, the titanium end caps, and the plexiglass porthole, seven inch thick, What happens is each of them has a different coeffici…”

“During the time that the sub was lost on the seafloor, the CBS crew, and actually everybody else, was on the bridge of the ship with the control room people which is primarily Wendy Rush, Stockton's wife, ran the comms, and the various experts and scientists, …”

“Why did it take them so long To notify the Coast Guard that the sub had gone missing. I think it was a number of hours.”

“I, to me, the sub was far safer than a Blue Origin or a SpaceX. I mean, obviously that looks insane now, but it imploded.”

“And one of these backup systems would work even if everyone inside was unconscious or dead. It was a time-release, sixteen-hour, dissolving sandbag hook.”

“I mean, it's the white girl in danger scenario. I don't know if you've heard this term, but when there's a white girl in danger, it's national headlines or pictures on the front page of every newspaper. If it's an identical black girl, you just don't hear abou…”

“I had a long conversation with Stockton Rush about this, and he said, I think that the people who object are wrong, because first of all, this wreck won't be there in 50 years. It's gonna be a lump of Rust. And if we're not there filming it, shooting it, makin…”

“The Mir, the Alvin, the Nautil, all of these submersibles glitch all the time. And through all this, through this whole conversation, let's keep in mind what PH Nargile told me. All submersibles are prototypes.”

“The carbon fiber also had an acoustic monitoring system. Carbon fibers are actual fibers. They're like hairs. And when they break, they make a little crackle, and he had eight microphones embedded that could pick up on the crackling”

“And so if you think about it, the only thing that separated the CBS crew and the fatal dive was three dives.”

“He fancies himself, fancied himself with a little bit of Elon Musk, a little bit of Steve Jobs, to whom he compared himself often.”

“The hull, of course, is a carbon fiber cylinder, five inches thick, and you may not drill anything into carbon fiber. You may not interrupt that surface.”

“Stockton Rush, the now familiar name, the CEO of Ocean Gate and the designer of The Sub was a fan of our show, and he sent over an invitation to our producers that said we could accommodate three of you on our support ship for one of our nine-day expeditions, …”