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I'm a little annoyed by guys like Cameron saying that he expected the Titan to be destroyed and that the CEO was a kook.
There was likely a design flaw that caused the materials to fail after several dives, which might have been expected.
Another guy who is a gazillionaire from Texas has a submersible which cost him $50 million. It was designed by a company in Florida. He sent it to St. Petersburg Russia for extreme depth testing. It's gone the deepest and it's a sphere of titanium but it's a monster and holds 2.
Gazillionaire guys like him and Cameron hate guys trying to make innovative solutions to an engineering problem without spending $50 million bucks.
I think that Stockton Rush made errors, but it might have been inevitable. Maybe you can't make a safe submersible that isn't a steel sphere.
Remember that the NASA Space Shuttle had a fatal design flaw; the vehicle should be on top of the rocket, not next to it. NASA had a gigantic budget with countless engineers.
Edit: Evidently Stockton Rush is a kook; but I still dislike Cameron, and I'm never watching Avatar.