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Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn’t really sudden. Best they had was text messages that were occurring at a 15 minute interval. They stopped 1:45 into the dive.

They waited until 30 minutes after they were supposed to be back to report it missing (which I think is standard)

[–] moneygrowsontrees@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

They had two communication systems. They had the text messaging and an automated "ping" that went every 15 minutes. Both stopped suddenly at 1:45.

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"There are only two things that could mean. Either they lost all power or the ship developed a hull breach and it imploded instantly."