r/OceanGateTitan

I'm a law professor in a non-US country and my mind jas been mulling this question over.

Could an injunction have been granted to prevent Titan from taking paying passengers? I know Will Kohnen mentioned that they chose not to sue because it would look weird coming from a competitor and then they wrote that letter that never got sent. Was suing really not an option? What other legal remedies could there have been?

They say Stockton was on a "predatory hunt for wealthy clientele". Sadly this video may have put Hamish on Stockton's radar.

It'd be a pretty well-executed hoax if it was one- the weight looks accurate, doing "2019" instead of a year closer to the accident makes it seem more incidental, the fancy case and lighting box and everything is pretty crazy too.

If this is real, who is this? Have we ever heard anything saying crew were given items like this to take home? And why is someone selling it now instead of closer to the peak of the story?

A bizarre find. I don't endorse it or say one way or another if it's real. I lean towards yes, since it's so incredibly oddly specific, but I know OceanGate hoaxes exist. There's an eBay listing for controllers bought "at OceanGate HQ in Everett when it was closing down" that aren't even proper Logitech controllers, so I know people are trying this. It'd be possible to get a real patch even for the sake of lending legitimacy to this. It only has to work once to be wildly profitable

What even happens to things like this? This story isn't probably ever going to have a museum entry about it (for a lot of reasons), so are all these weird OceanGate relics Stockton was handing out going to be bouncing around personal collections til the end of time?

(NEW update) Talked to the seller, their story was very detailed and checked out. It appears from what they said that the weight was indeed on the Titan at least once, since it was one used in shallow water testing that was reused and cleaned several times. To me at least, that increases its interest, since before we weren't even certain if it had ever been anywhere near Titan.

They're still selling old Oceangate clothing if anyone is interested. I don't know if I'd feel right wearing it and it's way too small for me anyways, but if anyone here is interested, I thought I'd let you know. It's pretty nice stuff and in good condition. They were very nice and gave a detailed answer so I figure the least I can do is point anybody interested in buying in their direction.