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Titan sub: crew have died after catastrophic loss of pressure chamber, US Coast Guard confirms
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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I can't say I fully thought out my comment to that extent, but I do agree that we need proper regulations to protect us from shady business practices, even if the CEO in this case believed it to be safe enough to take the same risks as the customers. But that is beside the point. Proper regulations protects the public even in that case.
How those regulations could be enforced on international waters is whole bag of cats that I don't even have a shoot-from-the-hip kinda opinion on. UN somehow? I don't know.
I certainly wouldn't have an informed idea on how that could be handled, either. What I have to offer toward particulars amounts to spit balling ๐คทโโ๏ธ.
If I had to guess though, I'd bet you and @patchymoose@rammy.site are getting at it. A UN treaty could play a part in establishing a baseline to build up on. Perhaps the key could be to indirectly govern it rather than trying to directly govern happenings in international waters? Operations that depart from signing countries could guarantee that their vessels meet basic standards, even if those offshore operations are ultimately conducted in international waters.
I'd imagine that it may shift a noteworthy amount of operation departures to non-signing countries, but I'd also think that increasing the barrier of entry and making such standards highly visible would make a noteworthy difference regardless.
Yeah, something along those lines would at least be better than it is now and in light of recent events may not even be impossible to get some buy-in for. As you say, there will be holes, but that can hopefully be improved on down the line.