Sunday, February 9, 2025

18 Months On: David Concannon looks back on the Oceangate Tragedy

18 Months On: David Concannon looks back on the Oceangate Tragedy

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https://youtu.be/7Rk5jYRMb8g

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https://centristchange.blogspot.com/2025/02/18-months-on-david-concannon-looks-back.html

18 Months On: David Concannon looks back on the Oceangate Tragedy

Scheduled to be aboard the Titan, a business emergency sidelined David. Soon he was immersed in the efforts to help save the submersible. In this podcast David looks back 18 months to the tragedy and adds to the historic record. . . and he pulls no punches.

Since June 18, 2023 the tragedy aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible remains a topic of discussion in gathering spots everywhere. David Concannon, "The Sixth Passenger" on the ill-fated Titan submersible, was scheduled to be the "Titanic whisperer" (my words not his - aka the subject matter expert) aboard the Titan when a last-minute business conflict forced him to give up his spot on the vessel's voyage to the shipwreck.

In August of 2023 David recounted to Wayne the events that transpired after the Titan was launched with five souls and when communications were lost; he reflects on the loss of the crew and the submersible, the inept, opaque and feckless approach of the US authorities in the Coast Guard, and the US Navy, and the frustration and heartbreak of the outcome when it was finally revealed.

18 Months later David joins us again - with some benefit of hindsight - to talk about both the tragedy and the personal impacts on he, his family and others who were deeply affected by the implosion of the submersible.

David Concannon

Attorney, Explorer,

Partner Concannon & Charles

Founder of Explorer Consulting

Former General Counsel to the Explorer Club International

VP of the Explorers Club

Member of the Apollo 11, F-1 Engine Recovery Project with Jeff Bezos

Board Member Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation, Camp Mowglis, School of the Open

Elephants in the Hourglass: A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya Hardcover – January 7, 2025

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A moving and adventure-filled tale of one woman’s quest for the truth about endangered Asian elephants and their evolving relationship with humans.

Delving deep into an intricate web of unlikely heroes, power struggles, and living legends, Elephants in the Hourglass takes readers on an extraordinary journey of discovery. In her non-fiction debut, Kim Frank blends personal narrative, vivid descriptions, and meticulous research as she illuminates the ways we seek to survive on our rapidly changing planet.

Like Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey before her, Kim is a female explorer who found her life completely changed as she was drawn deeper and deeper into the plight of the remarkable Asian elephant. For Kim, once she learned about the intense, multi-faceted, but little-known conflict between humans and elephants in North India, she was unable to rest until she had learned more and told this story to the outside world.

This was a place and topic totally unknown to her. Up until that point, Kim was an ordinary mom and emerging writer. After a fraught divorce, she felt a need to recapture her own voice and expand her world, and so she set out to the Himalaya with the goal of telling a story worthy of National Geographic.

What Kim experienced would change her life. It is far from a black and white story where the good guys and bad guys are immediately obvious. Not in this world of displaced habitats, exploding population growth, migration, and climate change. Filled with unforgettable characters and encounters with one of the most sensitive, intelligent, and awe-inspiring creatures on the planet, Elephants in the Hourglass will inspire readers to pursue their goals and be a force for change in unexpected places.

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Ep 68 Step Aside Elon, Lex Luthor is here! A Conversation with Elliot S! Maggin - Superman Cultural Icon

Elliot S! Maggin

Episode 68

Step Aside Elon, Lex Luthor is here!

A Conversation with Elliot S! Maggin

Superman Cultural Icon

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Youtube: https://youtu.be/mLzH1lDbwSY

Show Notes
https://centristchange.blogspot.com/2024/12/ep-68-step-aside-elon-lex-luthor-is.html

Step aside Elon,

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Lex Luthor is here. He is badass and out to save the planet.

It's an interesting contrast really. Elon Musk has his sights set on colonies on Mars and continuing to aggressively exploit the resources of earth in service to that, and other goals. On the other hand, the supervillain that most Americans and much of the world know as Lex Luthor, the nemesis of Superman, may be turning over a new leaf. "May be" is the operative phrase though. Nevertheless you can't help but notice that Luthor's bottom line is saving the planet that we currently call home rather than hastening a move into the cosmos.

Elliot S! Maggin (yes that is an exclamation point after his middle initial) has, in fact, had a love/hate relationship with Lex Luthor since they were first introduced to one another on the pages of the Superman comic when Elliot was a young boy. If you "read" between the lines in this podcast you will probably speculate that young Elliot was torn between the brilliance of Luthor and his evil intentions.

Elliot's career as a writer began with a colorful story about a Green Lantern comic that he wrote for a history class at Brandeis University, from which he graduated as the class Valedictorian, despite only getting a B+ on his comic book paper!

The first comic spawned 15 more years of writing comics for DC, mostly Superman, making him a cultural icon for millions of young people who eagerly anticipated the next issue each month. Those 15 years were capped off with two best-selling "Superman" novels written with his own storyline but timed for release by DC in conjunction with the first two Superman movies. Between those novels he made a move to New Hampshire, taught at Waterville Academy, bought a home, bought a horse; adopted a dog and ran for Congress, among other things. When the campaign was over he went back to writing and has never stopped.