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Big Technology Podcast

My Experience On The OceanGate Sub — With David Pogue

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

David Pogue is a correspondent on CBS Sunday Morning and host of the Unsung Science Podcast. In November 2022, he boarded the OceanGate sub for a voyage just months before it imploded. Pogue joins Big Technology Podcast to share his story. In this interview, he offers a nuanced view of the sub, OceanGate, and its CEO Stockton Rush. We discuss his experience aboard the Titan submersible, his confidence in the safety of the sub at the time, the lessons learned, the merits of risk in the name of exploration, and the media's coverage of the disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.

0:05.1

Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.

0:08.1

We'll navigate career pivots.

0:10.1

We'll learn where happiness fits in.

0:11.7

Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.2

LinkedIn Presents.

0:21.3

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

0:39.1

Our guest today is David Pogue.

0:40.8

He's the host of the Unsung Science podcast.

0:43.4

It's a great podcast.

0:44.3

You should check it out.

0:45.4

And he's also a correspondent on CBS Sunday morning.

0:48.7

And in his role as a correspondent there, he was aboard the Ocean Gate Titan in November 2022. Yes, the sub

0:55.3

that was going to explore the wreckage of the Titanic and itself imploded last week.

1:01.4

So today we're going to get into his experience aboard the sub. Of course, what happened to it.

1:06.0

And then we're going to go deeper into our discussion, the merits of risk and exploration.

1:12.2

David, so great to have you here. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. So just to start off, how did you first

1:16.7

hear about this sub? Because, you know, it does strike me that so many people have, you know,

1:21.9

heard about it, but it was news to most of the world. So where did you first encounter it?

1:26.4

Stockton Rush, the now familiar name, the CEO of Ocean Gate and the designer of the world. So where did you first encounter it? Stockton Rush, the now familiar name, the CEO of Ocean Gate and the designer of the sub,

1:32.1

was a fan of our show. And he sent over an invitation to our producers that said we could

1:41.3

accommodate three of you on our support ship for one of our nine-day expeditions,

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