For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).
They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?
This is going to come up in engineering safety classes for years. If the CEO says safety is a pure waste, you need to leave that job.
He has a slightly valid point, that at some extent safety can be overdone and you’re wasting time and money. However… repeated instances without a disaster (short of say, decades worth) don’t prove safety precautions are unnecessary, but one catastrophe can prove the the opposite.
It’s his examples that makes me think he wasn’t serious on safety overall. There’s different kinds of risks and we take them on every day, but everyday risks are way less deadly. It’s disingenuous to brush off safety for a sub heading 13k feet down into the ocean by talking about the risks of driving.
Oh, definitely. His examples are somewhat like “if you would fly on a a commercial jetliner, why not be an experimental pilot or an astronaut?” or “if you’d take a trip to a hiking area near your house, why not climb Mt. Everest?”