Advisor of Submersible Company That Trapped Its Passengers Condemns Goverment Interference
In case you were wondering how it is possible that someone can make bank by selling trips on a vessel with no backups, no emergency plan, and no way to locate it in operation, meet this asshole:
Tough guy. He's going to name names of government agencies and employees who don't do "their jobs" which are apparently keeping his ass from being rightfully sued into oblivion for wrongful death claims.
This is a new flex for him since, just a few days ago, he was a libertarian decrying government obsession with safety regulations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-missing-submersible.html
OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for ‘Catastrophic’ Problems With Titanic Mission
Years before OceanGate’s submersible craft went missing in the Atlantic Ocean with five people onboard, the company faced several warnings as it prepared for its hallmark mission of taking wealthy passengers to tour the Titanic’s wreckage.
It was January 2018, and the company’s engineering team was about to hand over the craft — named Titan — to a new crew who would be responsible for ensuring the safety of its future passengers. But experts inside and outside the company were beginning to sound alarms.
OceanGate’s director of marine operations, David Lochridge, started working on a report around that time, according to court documents, ultimately producing a scathing document in which he said the craft needed more testing and stressed “the potential dangers to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths.”
Two months later, OceanGate faced similarly dire calls from more than three dozen people — industry leaders, deep-sea explorers and oceanographers — who warned in a letter to its chief executive, Stockton Rush, that the company’s “experimental” approach and its decision to forgo a traditional assessment could lead to potentially “catastrophic” problems with the Titanic mission.
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The separate warning that OceanGate received that same year came from 38 experts in the submersible craft industry; all of them were members of the Manned Underwater Vehicles committee of the Marine Technology Society, a 60-year-old industry group that promotes, studies and teaches the public about ocean technology. The experts wrote in their letter to Mr. Rush that they had “unanimous concern” about the way the Titan had been developed, and about the planned missions to the Titanic wreckage.
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Another signatory of the 2018 letter, Bart Kemper, said in an interview that OceanGate had avoided having to abide by certain U.S. regulations by deploying the vessel in international waters, where Coast Guard rules did not apply.
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win stupid prizes. This a-hole is working so hard that he's got to get some shut eye in the hopes that he wakes up to find the government solved his problems for him. Fool.
He reminds me of that shell oil guy who whined about how long it was taking to resolve the Deepwater Horizon spill and he just wanted his life back. Didn't give a shit about all those people who live along the coast whose lives were destroyed. Was upset that the government was so hard on him... all while he was being coddled by a certain faction of the government.
how did they do that
hang on...
We specialize in taking people to dangerous places to see where a lot of other people died from the dangers of going to those places.
They most certainly do. Otherwise, "whale song" would be a myth. 
You might not be able to "hear" (with your ears) certain frequencies within the "radio wave" range, but that energy propagates and you just need something to detect the target inaudible frequencies and convert that into something audible.
and 3 semesters of physics along with 2 of p-chem so when you say "radio waves", I'm talking the "radio" range of the EM spectrum.
A wave is a wave is wave, but can be of different frequencies. 
What you seem to be dong is mixing terms. "Acoustic" is "sound" (detectable within the human ear range) and "radio waves" include that "audible" (acoustic) portion of the EM spectrum. However that "radio" range also includes much more, like frequencies not "audible" but actually "felt", like one might experience with a subwoofer or from an earthquake, at the lowest end of the spectrum for example. And in any of these cases, it's a matter of what is needed to "generate" and "detect" certain frequencies of waves.
But you can't hand-wave the notion that "radio waves" don't transmit through (salt) water because they can and do - but like a prism does to the highest frequencies of "light" (in quotes), causing diffraction, any wave traveling through a substance can and will be altered and your detector needs to adjust for it.
for everyone in there except a couple of students. 
My graduating class of about 5000 at UMASS/Amherst only had 30 chem majors and half of those were transfers and older students. There were just 15 of us who started and finished at the same time (out of an original starting group of ~100).
as some kind of literal "transmitter". I am saying that (audible) "sound" is made up of waves that are a part of the "radio frequency range" of the EM spectrum. When you "talk" you are making "sound" in a frequency somewhere between about 100 Hz - 300 Hz. Our ears can generally "receive" sound within the 20Hz to 20KHz range. Underwater creatures make "sounds" that generate waves that transverse through water.
But then it's "do your jobs!!!"
