Diversity will kill you

I had some misgivings about this post, but the Coast Guard has announced a debris field has been found, presumably the missing mini-sub.

Not to joke here, but, if you ever watched Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, especially in its first year, you knew they weren't kidding about mini-subs being high risk. It was the counterpart of wearing a red shirt on the original Trek.

Now we have a real-life example. And it isn't as if people hadn't voiced concerns. You hear lines like, " a second attempted dive was abandoned at 1,600 meters because of equipment failures and electrical problems," or, "his submersible lost contact with the host ship on every dive". NAVSPECWAR, parent outfit of the SEALs, operates SDVTs (SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams), manned by specially qualified SEALs, medical dive technicians, and fleet support maintenance technicians; IOW people whose life work is this stuff and whose competence is the measure of life or death.

So what does this have to do with diversity? Company founder, Stockton Rush, was a great believer in diversity. He didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren’t “inspirational.” He wanted 20 year old kids and made a practice of idiotic machoisms like,  “I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything". He was also quoted "bemoaning regulations and calling safety efforts a “pure waste”.

Somebody tell his widow.

You'd think after the last couple of Democrat White House occupants, we'd learn the folly of diversity. As they say, some people never learn.