#oceangate — Public Fediverse posts

Regent’s challenging path to a seaglider first flight

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/regent-viceroy-seaglider-first-flight/

"While carbon fiber has been used in everything from cars to rockets, no one had ever dived in a deep-water carbon-fiber submersible. Rush wanted to be the first."

For WIRED, Mark Harris dives into tens of thousands of internal #OceanGate emails and documents to piece together what happened in the years leading up to the #Titan #submersible tragedy in June 2023: https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files

#Longreads #DeepSea #Ocean #Titantic