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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Titan's demise, Musk's 'five things,' remembering Loni Anderson: The week in review
Titan sub was doomed from the start The catastrophic implosion that killed all five crew members on the submersible Titan on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic in June 2023 could have been prevented had it not been for broad failures of the company that built and operated it, a long-awaited Coast Guard report found. It cited OceanGate's 'inadequate design, certification, maintenance and inspection,' along with a 'toxic workplace environment' that sought to silence any safety concerns. The sub's carbon-fiber hull imploded at 11,000 feet, killing the occupants instantaneously. The crew on the mother ship on the surface, the Polar Prince, reported hearing a thump from the depths without knowing what it was. Musk's 'five things' are no more If federal employees could name one thing they could do without, it very well could be the end of those '5 things' memos. The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management announced it was doing away with the weekly emails that came courtesy of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, starting in February, that directed federal workers to outline their five accomplishments for the past week. (Musk had declared that failure to respond to the email amounted to a resignation.) Musk, of course, has since famously split with the White House and laid out an accomplishment target of his own: launching a third political party. DOGE staffer assaulted: Former Musk team member beaten in DC carjacking attempt Americans are fixated on their money When Snoop Dogg sang 'with my mind on my money and my money on my mind' in 'Gin & Juice' in the 1990s, he might as well have been singing about 2025. Americans today spend nearly four hours a day on average thinking about money − or their lack of it − according to a study from the financial services company Empower. Seventeen percent of Americans check their financial accounts multiple times a day; 24% check their bank accounts every day; and 36% say they have lost sleep over their financial worries, the survey found. It's no small-time obsession: Four hours a day thinking about money, said Empower's Rebecca Rickert, is like 'a part-time job.' Loni Anderson, WKRP's savvy siren, dead at 79 Loni Anderson, who starred as Jennifer Marlowe on the 1970s and early '80s CBS sitcom 'WKRP in Cincinnati' only after insisting she not play a stereotypical dumb blonde, has died. She was 79. Her portrayal of the sexy, whip-smart receptionist at a last-place AM radio station proved to be the right call: It was her breakout role and turned her into a sex symbol in a decades-long career in Hollywood. Friend and fellow actress Barbara Eden posted on social media: 'She was a real talent, with razor smart wit. ... Loni was a darling lady. I am truly at a loss for words.' Loni Anderson's true Hollywood story: Her love affair with Burt Reynolds – and its messy end MLB Speedway Classic crosses the finish line A little rain couldn't stop baseball history from being made. The Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves made it only to the bottom of the first inning Aug. 2 before the inaugural MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol Motor Speedway was declared a washout after two long rain delays. The game − sponsored by NASCAR and the first regular-season contest ever played in Tennessee − resumed the next day after setting an all-time MLB attendance record of 91,032. The Braves won 4-2. Baseball has done big things before, but at Bristol, said MLB's Jeremiah Yolkut, 'we knew we could go really big.' − Compiled by Robert Abitbol This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Titan's demise, Musk's 'five things,' remembering Loni: Week in review
USA Today
2 days ago
- Business
- USA Today
Titan's demise, Musk's 'five things,' remembering Loni Anderson: The week in review
Titan sub was doomed from the start The catastrophic implosion that killed all five crew members on the submersible Titan on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic in June 2023 could have been prevented had it not been for broad failures of the company that built and operated it, a long-awaited Coast Guard report found. It cited OceanGate's 'inadequate design, certification, maintenance and inspection,' along with a 'toxic workplace environment' that sought to silence any safety concerns. The sub's carbon-fiber hull imploded at 11,000 feet, killing the occupants instantaneously. The crew on the mother ship on the surface, the Polar Prince, reported hearing a thump from the depths without knowing what it was. Musk's 'five things' are no more If federal employees could name one thing they could do without, it very well could be the end of those '5 things' memos. The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management announced it was doing away with the weekly emails that came courtesy of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, starting in February, that directed federal workers to outline their five accomplishments for the past week. (Musk had declared that failure to respond to the email amounted to a resignation.) Musk, of course, has since famously split with the White House and laid out an accomplishment target of his own: launching a third political party. DOGE staffer assaulted: Former Musk team member beaten in DC carjacking attempt Americans are fixated on their money When Snoop Dogg sang 'with my mind on my money and my money on my mind' in 'Gin & Juice' in the 1990s, he might as well have been singing about 2025. Americans today spend nearly four hours a day on average thinking about money − or their lack of it − according to a study from the financial services company Empower. Seventeen percent of Americans check their financial accounts multiple times a day; 24% check their bank accounts every day; and 36% say they have lost sleep over their financial worries, the survey found. It's no small-time obsession: Four hours a day thinking about money, said Empower's Rebecca Rickert, is like 'a part-time job.' Loni Anderson, WKRP's savvy siren, dead at 79 Loni Anderson, who starred as Jennifer Marlowe on the 1970s and early '80s CBS sitcom 'WKRP in Cincinnati' only after insisting she not play a stereotypical dumb blonde, has died. She was 79. Her portrayal of the sexy, whip-smart receptionist at a last-place AM radio station proved to be the right call: It was her breakout role and turned her into a sex symbol in a decades-long career in Hollywood. Friend and fellow actress Barbara Eden posted on social media: 'She was a real talent, with razor smart wit. ... Loni was a darling lady. I am truly at a loss for words.' Loni Anderson's true Hollywood story: Her love affair with Burt Reynolds – and its messy end MLB Speedway Classic crosses the finish line A little rain couldn't stop baseball history from being made. The Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves made it only to the bottom of the first inning Aug. 2 before the inaugural MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol Motor Speedway was declared a washout after two long rain delays. The game − sponsored by NASCAR and the first regular-season contest ever played in Tennessee − resumed the next day after setting an all-time MLB attendance record of 91,032. The Braves won 4-2. Baseball has done big things before, but at Bristol, said MLB's Jeremiah Yolkut, 'we knew we could go really big.' − Compiled by Robert Abitbol
CBC
5 days ago
- CBC
Indigenous youth set sail for adventure — and education — off Newfoundland's south coast
Indigenous youth from across Canada are voyaging along the south coast of Newfoundland aboard the Polar Prince this week. The marine voyage is all about adventure and education. The CBC's Colleen Connors was there when they prepared to leave Stephenville.
The Star
5 days ago
- General
- The Star
Series of mistakes caused Titan sub disaster, US Coast Guard says
The Coast Guard's final report on the submersible that imploded during a dive to the Titanic concluded that the fatal disaster resulted from a series of safety and design failures. 'This marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable,' said Jason Neubauer, who led the two-year inquiry for the Marine Board of Investigation, which issued a more than 300-page report on Aug 5. The submersible, known as the Titan and operated by a company called OceanGate, disappeared in June 2023 on a trip to view the wreck of the Titanic ocean liner. It lost contact an hour and a half into the dive, and prompted a sprawling search effort in the dark depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The craft's remains were discovered on the fourth day by a remotely operated vehicle. The submersible's operator and four passengers were killed. Numerous investigations, hearings and news reports have documented failures in the submersible's construction and operation, which were echoed by the Coast Guard report. 'The board determined the primary contributing factors were OceanGate's inadequate design, certification, maintenance and inspection process for the Titan,' the investigative board said in a news release. The five people killed in the implosion were the operator, Stockton Rush, as well as explorers Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet and two members of a wealthy Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood. Here are takeaways from the report. The Titan's final moments seemed normal. The Titan's final voyage on June 18, 2023, proceeded largely without incident until the submersible nearly reached the ocean floor, the report found. At 10.47am, as the submersible was approaching the seabed, the report said it 'followed standard procedure by releasing ballast weights to slow its descent'. Seconds later, at a depth of 10,978 feet, the Titan transmitted its location for the final time. Within moments, the submersible's carbon fiber hull gave way, catastrophically imploding under the immense pressure, the report found. The board's report said the passengers 'were exposed to approximately 4,930 pounds per square inch of water pressure' when the vessel imploded, 'resulting in the instantaneous death of all five occupants.' The implosion was heard at the surface. Seconds after the submersible imploded, OceanGate employees aboard the submersible's support ship, the Polar Prince, heard a 'bang' from the ocean's surface, the board found. After hearing the noise, the leader of the submersible's communications and tracking team turned to another OceanGate employee and asked, 'What was that bang?' according to the report. Subsequent messages to the Titan's crew went unreturned. 'With the benefit of hindsight, I now believe I felt the Polar Prince shudder at around the time communications were reportedly lost, but at the time we thought nothing of it,' the master of the Polar Prince later wrote to the board. He added that the disturbance 'was slight'. OceanGate pilots lacked adequate training. The report found that OceanGate lacked adequate protocols to ensure its submersible pilots, including Rush, were sufficiently trained to lead undersea expeditions. OceanGate's former director of operations told the board that there was 'no official documentation' required for OceanGate's submersible pilots, and that the company didn't have a dedicated manual for pilots operating the Titan submersible, the report said. Additionally, the board found no evidence showing that Rush had completed any training programme specific to the submersible that would have met the company's standards for its highest pilot training certification. OceanGate gave false information to the Coast Guard. At the time of the Titan's final dive, Rush possessed a credential issued by the US Coast Guard that permitted him to operate vessels of a certain volume on inland waters. That credential was based on falsified information, the report said: In 2020, OceanGate exaggerated the volume of the Titan in a letter to the National Maritime Center so that it would appear as if Rush had the requisite time at sea needed to earn the credential. The Titan was damaged in previous dives. On multiple occasions, OceanGate failed to adequately investigate damage suffered by the Titan during previous dives, the report found, including one that resulted in the vessel becoming entangled with the wreckage of the Titanic. During a dive in July 2022, the Titan entered the Titanic's wreckage and became briefly caught in debris near the ship's main stairwell, a mission specialist told the board. During the submersible's ascent, crew members reported hearing a loud noise they feared indicated damage to the hull. A contractor told the board that Rush later brushed aside those concerns. It wasn't the first time an OceanGate submersible became entangled in a shipwreck, according to the report. In an interview with the board, the OceanGate director of operations described a dive in which an earlier OceanGate submersible, the Cyclops 1, became stuck beneath the bow of the Andrea Doria shipwreck near Nantucket, Massachusetts, with Rush at the controls. In response, Rush had a 'meltdown,' the director of operations said, adding that when he asked Rush to relinquish the controls Rush threw the controller at him. – ©2025 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Sky News AU
5 days ago
- General
- Sky News AU
New shocking details on Titan submarine tragedy revealed
A report into the Titan submersible disaster, which killed five people, shows safety practices were 'critically flawed'. Two days after its mother ship Polar Prince set off from Newfoundland, the Titan began its descent on June 18 in 2023. An hour later, it lost communication, failing to resurface at its scheduled time of 3pm. A large-scale search operation was launched before debris of the sub was found by the US Coast Guard several days later.
