Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.
Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their
driverspriors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–“This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”
“people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”
Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”
“When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”
“Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.
Oh.
The boat wasnt called that at first, the guy who ordered it gave it a different name. Guess he sold it as the weirdest HP assassination play
between this and the submersible guy I’m starting to think we need more billionaires on the ocean. maybe peter thiel is onto something
Poseidon is said to prefer Australian Prime Ministers as sacrifices, but maybe he’ll accept a few techbros.
The orcas were trying to send us this message for a while now
Sadly the orcas only attack smaller sailboats, not the mega yachts. They are not the anti billionaire allies.
Maybe if we funded them better they’d be able to tackle larger projects.
Think it is just a skill issue, they need to git gud.
Bring down a mega yaught any%
Wait, they replaced the two masts with one double sized one? That seems a bit unwise.
Most of the time, though, the Bayesian operated like a motorboat, powered by two enormous diesel engines. During her five-day voyage, Ms. VanSickle said they sailed only once, for just a few hours. But when they did, the boat moved through the water so smoothly, she said, it felt like they were “gliding.”
Yes that is how sailing often feels if the water isnt choppy.
Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”
“The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”
- Designer of sunken ship
Never ever board a ship if someone calls her unsinkable.
“no no you don’t get it, you’re floating it wrong”
@Soyweiser To be fair that change request was made by the original purchaser of the yacht, long before it was re-christened Bayesian by its new owner
I know, still a strange choice, a Dutchman should know better.
His Wikipedia article is quite a ride. Apparently he and a Stephen Chamberlain were recently found innocent for a bunch of fraud charges. They boil down to inflating the value of a SW company he sold to Hewlett-Packart. They died within a day of each other in unrelated accidents. Must be rough.
Damn, HP doesn’t mess around. I’m going to stop trashing them around the office.
