{"id":1135,"date":"2025-08-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:14:12","slug":"coast-guard-says-oceangate-submersible-disaster-was-preventable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/05\/coast-guard-says-oceangate-submersible-disaster-was-preventable\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Says Oceangate Submersible Disaster was Preventable."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2954-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2954-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2954-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2954-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2954.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">OceanGate Titan Submersible <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Coast Guard released their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uscg.mil\/Press-Releases\/Article\/4265651\/coast-guard-marine-board-of-investigation-releases-report-on-titan-submersible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report of Investigation<\/a> on the disaster of OceanGate\u2019s Titan submersible. Their conclusion? \u201cThis marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Slap my ass and call me stupid, but I do believe I came to that conclusion myself. And without spending any money or time. Do stupid things win stupid prizes. Fuck around, find out. Winner winner, ocean\u2019s dinner.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you haven\u2019t watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81712178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster on Netflix<\/a> yet, I suggest you do so. You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coast Guard released their Report of Investigation on the disaster of OceanGate\u2019s Titan submersible. Their conclusion? \u201cThis marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable.\u201d Slap my ass and call me stupid, but I do believe I came to that conclusion myself. And without spending any money or time. Do stupid things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[594,592,593],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fafo","tag-oceangate","tag-titan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_2954.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}