I've done lots of wreck diving. It is awesome.
Titanic tourist submersible missing | Sub's debris found - crew "have been lost"
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I've done lots of wreck diving. It is awesome.
They could probably extend the oxygen supply by ganging up on the owner and killing him since it’s his fault.
Why did they take 8 hours to raise the alarm that it was missing?
Never saw you as the adventurous type
If this was a psychological thriller movie only one passenger will be found alive after the five of them realised the oxygen supply spread thin and time was running out. An underwater battle royale.
The Titanic was and would be a huge story without that film.
Everyone would know the story of the unsinkable ship that sunk first time out.
The Captain who said even God himself couldn't sink this ship
I thought the same and I then tried to think about this another way and say 'what if this was something i had devoted many hours of my life to studying or just being generally interested in and what if i had the rarest chance to actually see it in person. Would i take the chance?' my answer was still 'not in that death trap'.
And yet a diving expert who had already visited the wreck did, bizarre.
There's a fair bit of that unfortunately. It makes a surreal place even more surreal, Auschwitz is like Disneyland for the holocaust. Also you get whole swathes of people pointing their phones at the main 'attractions' (hair, shoes, bags, etc) and not actually being educated in the slightest but instead putting those photos on social media for clout.
I think the one thing that would have rang alarm bells for me and cause me not to do this is the price. A quarter million sounds far too cheap for something like this.
I kind of meant more from the perspective of someone who isn't a diving expert but had the money to pay for it. As that video demonstrated, even a person with zero knowledge of this stuff would look at the sub and be a little worried.
Nah he's all kinda fecked up.
I think the Titanic conspiracies are way more fun than the actual movie or shipwreck itself. It's supposed to be switched with an older, damaged ship and then deliberately crashed in order to secure an insurance payment.
No I know, but there's a guy in the sub who not only knows the risks because they've previously experienced them (in a certified vessel) but was comfortable going down there in a vessel that is clearly unsafe. This guy was capable of identifying more red flags than your average rich punter and still went ahead with it.
These are people with a mindset of "you've just gotta think about the reward/benefit and decide for yourself whether it's worth the risk", completely bonkers imo.
I did something similar. I used to go to the gym six days a week, run three times a week, and eat clean. But once I met my missus and managed to snare her I decided that I couldn't risk weights falling on me, or a crow flying into my skull whilst I was sprinting through a park, or choking on tuna or salads. Since then I have lived a safe life watching TV on my fattened arse - which would cause a crow to bounce away - and I have a diet exclusively made up of chocolate and pizza, foods famous for their healthy, chokeless qualities.
I loved the Federal Reserve and JP Morgan one. Can't believe it's the first time I'm hearing of it.
Evidently passengers are advised to restrict their diet in the days before the voyage, for exactly this reason.
They probably assumed that the vessel couldn’t be “lost” in this day and age.
I guess there’s always the risk of implosion when in the deep, but I find it incredible that a submarine on a tourist trip could so easily drop completely off the radar without a trace, or seemingly have no emergency mechanisms in place to at least slowly bring it back to surface in case of a problem.
with there being five of them onboard, they should just breathe directly into each other’s mouths and get an endless supply of air.
Imagine paying that amount, to realise that you don’t even get a chair to sit on, an empty milk carton from target to piss in and see them navigating using a game controller. Hope it’s not a simple case of running out of double AA power because the cheepskate bought batteries from Aldi
An elaborate human centipede with eggy boffs would be just as good.
I want to emphasise again that I don’t think 250.000 (Dollars I guess?) is enough for something like this. There’s a crew involved. Everything takes days. They need a ship to get to the point where they dive. There needs to be maintenance. How in the world does this come down to a quarter million? Shouldn’t it be much more expensive?
The memes are outstanding. It's obviously a tragedy but it is ultimately self inflicted. I just hope they were all fully aware of the risk.
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I think we could win an Oscar for that. It would be like 12 Angry Men or that movie with Tom Hardy driving in a car for 90 mins.
There are 3 paying guests on the craft, plus pilot and a 'content expert' I believe. 750k for one dive seems like it would fund that easily?
You want people to pay more? He’s just made 750,000 from one dive. Imagine they have 1 per week.
maintenance..judging by the owners attitude, I wonder if it just gets a “lick and a promise”
That’s what I mean. For all this to be safe, I think it would need to be more expensive. That’s why I wouldn’t have been comfortable with this in the first place.
Works on my missus
Why it wasn't approved to be sent earlier, when it could make a difference, is beyond me. Now it's just pointless, other than to find the wreckage
These advanced subs are not just lying around for incidents to happen and shipped via plane or helicopter onto the deck of another ship, plus for all we know they were pre-occupied in deep sea missions / surveys etc when this happened. I'm pretty sure it's not as simple as "hoist them up Popeye" and ship them over to Titanic. They are extremely specialised and needs specialised boats to go with them, hence why the French one took 2 / 3 days to sail there.
I agree, it's frustrating as hell though
It's like climbing a really tall tree and the next ladder is on Mars.
Any update on whether they can still hear the sounds that were reported the other day?