INTERESTING FIND OF THE WEEK

September 12, 2025

The Oceangate hearings (AKA titan submersible that imploded by the Titanic) have had ALL my focus this week! i tried to watch them when they first started, but was unable to really understand what was going on until the Netflix doc put more of the timeline/company structure into context.

if you have netflix, i REALLY recommend checking out the documentary! there's a big focus on sound design that really pays off towards the end.

if you don't these are some hearing testimonials i think are EXTREMELY interesting and don't require too much pre-requisite understanding!

Antonella Wilby - Operations/Engineering Tech Contractor:
she has one of the most concise and compelling employee testimonials because she was only at the company for 3 WEEKS before she was fired for "not having an explorer mindset".

Roy Thomas - Design Expert with a Classing Agency:
an extremely thorough presentation on why carbon fiber drew so much scrutiny from engineers and scientists. He also provides context for exactly how unsafely this company was operating by laying out a thorough example of how they would go about testing and classing a vessel made with an untested material.

Guillermo Solhein - Oceangate Co-Founder:
he essentially is the only person willing to openly describe the ways they tried to skirt regulation so they could get paying customers on an unclassed experimental vessel. probably because he left the company WAY before they ever took passengers, so is free from liability.

I'm not done watching yet though! and definitely still have a lot more to say. so don't be surprised if this topic pops up here again!

next week will probably be more music xD everybody decided to release albums all at once SORRYYY there's nothing i can do about it! :(

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