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Putting water wings on a hand grenade doesn’t make it a “maritime” subject.
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???
What are water wings? You mean like flippers?
Why would anybody put any kind of wings on a hand grenade?
That meme is obviously a joke, not to be taken as anything else.
What did you manage to read into it?
PS: Sinking of the Titanic is obviously a “maritime subject”.
It is maritime history.
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Waterwings.
I see here more good will or self proclaimed garbage cleaners. May be they should focus their energies on cleaning all the shit accumulated since 2007 having stil status as OPENED or do High Priests need some help from illigal immigrants or bloody foreigners.
to make it a maritime subject 
Put a hand grenade into 1 kg of flour and you can start a baking thread.
Be creative Dr.Bugge
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Maine had a terrible aircraft accident two days ago that killed all on board. One of the confirmed dead was a mother of young daughters who also happened to be a lawyer. Unfortunately today I heard a sick lawyer joke about that catastrophe. Considering the wealth of the notable people who were on the Titanic, I think if she sank today many would be singing & dancing in the streets. The late night TV host would have a field day. About conspiracy theories & the Titanics sinking, they had as many loons & skeptics back then as they do now. The difference is back then very few had platforms to share their ideas with.
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New documentary treatment of sinking out last year
Titanic Sinks Tonight (TV Mini Series 2025) - IMDb
Currently on BBC iPlayer and other places
It has been running here on local TV for multiple nights. If it took this long to sink you could of disembarked into the yacht you had built out of the wood veneer in the 1st class dinning room.
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Maybe due to minor safeguards ignoring the reality and also It’s not just about Titanic it’s a metaphor still able used today for:
Poorly thought-out regulation
Box-ticking safety compliance
Overreliance on technology
Marketing-driven confidence instead of realism
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Was reading a long article on NPR today on the anniversary of the Challenger disaster. Key phrase “normalization of deviance”
" Some blame that on something called the “normalization of deviance,” a concept coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan in 1996 after she studied the Challenger disaster. Vaughan concluded that even after the risk was identified and even while it was the focus of concern and study, shuttle flights continued because the risk hadn’t yet caused a disaster. The “deviance” of the O-ring blow-by became normalized."
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I checked IA for any relevance of the term “Putting water wings on a hand grenade” 
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“The phrase “putting water wings on a hand grenade” is not a literal action, but an expression for trying to apply a trivial or inadequate solution to a highly dangerous and severe problem.
The core issue remains dangerous and unresolved, as the “solution” (water wings, meant for buoyancy in a pool) is completely ineffective against the inherent danger of a hand grenade.”
(See also post # 4 for explanation of “water wings”)
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Long way for discussion but main point is to apply the lessons learned and ensure they are not forgotten in practice.