The operative word is "need". Alvin uses multiple computers for various tasks, but is capable of being safely operated manually without a computer.

My question is "What the heck is driving your capitalisation?". 😢😅😢😅😊😂😢😮😅😮😊😊😂😮😢😅😊😂😮😊😢😅😊😂😂😂😂😮😮😅😢😅😊😅😅😢😅😅

Cause rich people are egomaniacal clowns who think they know better than the engineers.

Alvin is a U.S. research asset that is owned by the US Navy and operated for scientific discovery by WHOI, as such she is not set up for tourism, even by billionaire tourists.

They literally did speak up. A consortium of engineers came forward. It was in the news at the time as well. There was also a whistleblower who was one of the main consulting engineers on the project. Google it. It’s not hard to find. What allowed them to operate the uncertified sub with tourists was the fact that they did so in international waters where no governing body has jurisdiction.

@@Cleatus46 During the DAYS leading up to the incident? What are you talking about? Engineering a submersible takes years. Testing it takes years. This titan sub was used over 50x before the incident. Will Kohnen, chairman of the peer-review engineering group Marine Technology Society penned a letter to the CEO in 2018 co-signed by over 20 engineers asking oceangate to stop what they were doing and certify the sub (pending more testing. They warned about the use of a filament wound carbon fiber hull because in engineering, carbon is not what you use in repeated stress-strain/pressurization-depressurization situations. David Lockridge, an engineer, was the former pilot of the sub and was fired when he raised concerns about the hulls integrity. They sued him for leaking confidential info. Lol. Many contracted engineers also blew the whistle on the project. You don’t just wait for years after construction to blow the whistle in engineering a project like this. Do your research and you’ll realize that plenty of actual engineers with experience in submersibles came out publicly. Thus, everyone working at the company as an engineer was for the most part hired out of college as non PE’s (not having worked under a certified engineer for 3 years) and did not have the chance to speak out about anything because of a lack of experience with submersibles. Or, they feared for their jobs like Lockridge. Also, like I said, the sub was launched in international waters where no governing body can stop them. This is the retarded CEO’s fault, who I might add had an engineering degree but did not know how to use it.