[lelanthran]

> the CEO wanted it tested but there isn't a facility anywhere on earth equipped to test it.

They could have dropped it to the bottom of the sea with weights, have a timer release the weights and hauled it back up. Cheaper than renting any testing facility on earth.

They could have done this multiple times on the same hull until it imploded. If a month of dropping it and retrieving it doesn't result in implosion, then it's probably safe enough to put people into it.

There was no need to make its first test of that pressure with people in it.