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Part: Two Stockton Rush: Inventor of the Deathsub

Behind the Bastards

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The Death Trap

In 2018, a submersible pilot who had been hired to be the Ocean Gate director of marine operations. He was like, he takes a look at this thing and is like, what is that? I'm responsible for like not killing people. And this thing is a death trap. It's also just like, you just kind of picked a number out of that. Yeah. So one of his employees took action in 2018,. A guy named David Lockridge found flaws and the visible carbon in samples for the Titan. The tests showed that consistent constant pressure cycling weakened the carbon fiber over time that it degraded pretty rapidly.

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