[pavlov]

Why does Musk insist on pursuing a playground vendetta over this? The submarine was a quick hack and turns out it didn't quite work. That's perfectly ok -- that's what quick hacks are like. It would be forgotten in a week as he moves on to the next shiny engineering challenge to keep his audience thrilled.

Instead, he doubles down on every real or perceived slight against him. Donald Trump does the same. It must be an effective PR tactic because these two American luminaries do it, but it's frustrating to watch how this stuff consumes so much media oxygen from real issues.

[makomk]

The short answer is, this article completely omits the part of the diver's comments that actually made the headlines originally. He also said it was just a PR stunt, and everyone latched onto this as proof that Elon Musk was an evil person for even trying and that the dive team who'd actually rescued the kids confirmed it. It was only after Elon's subsequent morally-bankrupt smear made for a better avenue of attack that the media started downplaying the diver's comments as just some minor technical criticism rather than iron-clad proof Musk was a monster taking advantage of kids' peril.