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Titanic tourist submersible missing | Sub's debris found - crew "have been lost"
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Very weird analogy
Yes his biography reads a lot like an Apprentice application form submission where he is namedropping lots of influential projects he seems to have been adjacent to and claiming a degree of credit for.
I can't believe people paid 250k per ticket to this organisation...looks completely amatuerish.
I think there are absolutely no parallels. This is about some extremely rich but rather stupid millionaires who wanted to go see the Titanic - a matter of interest to many over the years. They weren't really harming anyone apart from themselves but agreeing to sit in those ridiculous machines. Trophy hunters though, are the absolute scum of the Earth.
This was a suicide mission, horrific for the families.
Even if they find the thing, how do they get it back to the surface?
This is an absolute nightmare. Imagine being stuck in that thing knowing you're just fecked.
This is an absolute nightmare. Imagine being stuck in that thing knowing you're just fecked.
Indeed. I think a lot of the reaction is down to seeing the submersible and asking ourselves if we'd have paid 250k to get on it and go see a shipwreck with all the things that could potentially go wrong.
I wouldn't have gone in that thing if you paid me £250K.
To see though a tiny window, some old wreck? I can think of 250,000 better ways to spend £250,000.
Something I've always wanted to ask: When people say this, do they genuinely pray for the people they're talking about?
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Someone who doesn't pray
Well yes and no. ‘At any time’, no. Sorry for pedantry.
They’re right at the top of the list of unsafe places to be, when considered against all places.
Pedantic comment aside.. yes, they’re safer than most forms of transport.
Out of all the people who are going to die this week, these aren't the ones I feel most sorry for. But I don't really get the comparison to big game hunters, since these guys weren't actively harming anyone else or the environment (as far as I'm aware). I'd say Everest climbers are more like the big game hunters. These guys just wanted to go really deep, and it didn't work out.
People are dying right now, all over, probably less than a mile from you. I just have a limited amount of compassion, which I save for people I know or those most disadvantaged.
I don't feel much for the most wealthy, choosing to do something dumb, then falling foul.
Not having much compassion is not the same as being ok with people mocking or laughing about it.
No they aren’t. That’s my point. It’s safer than walking down the street.
He’s just a kid. Teenagers are awkward as feck. They don’t know what they’re doing most of the time. Poor lad.
There’s an interview with the guy who owns the sub earlier. He said he wasn’t actually making much money on the deal because he spends a million dollars on fuel. So that’s a chunky carbon footprint right there. But yeah, the big game hunter comparison is stupid. They’re not doing anything cruel.
Submarines?!
I mean they could have or could be dying a horrific death, you have to have some compassion in that regard at the very least.
Their decision to do something that stupid though makes it harder to care. A literal example of more money than sense.
It would be like someone trying to ride a lion for a laugh and getting fecking ripped to pieces, it would be hard to really care that much.
I guess it depends how safe they were lead to believe this thing was, but it seems like they were fully aware it was a pile of junk. May as well have just gone down in a car instead.
Only thing cruel they're doing is to themselves by agreeing to go 3 miles deep into the ocean in a ridiculous contraption manufactured at Walmart.
He's in his mid thirties.
Considering they signed a waiver that freed the company from responsibility in case of their death they had to have considered that death was a possibility. And then they went and paid that company an amount of money that would be life-changing for the vast majority of the world's population to end up in this situation.
Ok, plot twist.
Why do you think I’m over-compensating in the opposite direction?!
You can just smell Netflix cooking up a documentary already
Totally normal.
"Hey Tom DeLong, can you shout out my dead/dying/drowning dad in-between Dumpweed and The Rock Show?!"
*Man
Thirty something year old man*
For reference guys, he created his Facebook in 2008 so is at least 28 years old.
Well I’ll happily concede. But I don’t think they are. They’re safer by miles travelled. But not by time.
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in all seriousness I keep hearing why is it so difficult to find them when they are tethered
well if comms or power is down, then it’s not like there’s an abundance of capable subs readily available to head down for the rescue…..this is extreme levels of descent, very specialised submarines we are talking about capable of the extreme pressure per square centimetre
it’s as dangerous if not more dangerous than heading out too space!…everyone is aware that is taking part. And if it’s tangled on the wreckage then they can’t just be pulled up either.
I would say most likely they are doomed, unless they can stumble across a miracle and get a capable sub for those depths too head down and aid the stuck sub in freeing it, highly unlikely
also if there was damage too the sub some how, then there would be nothing too recover, let’s say the Sub is the size of an average living room, any fault in the structure would instantly squish it too the size of a baby pram, no suffering, just crushed in a blip
in all seriousness I keep hearing why is it so difficult to find them when they are tethered
well if comms or power is down, then it’s not like there’s an abundance of capable subs readily available to head down for the rescue…..this is extreme levels of descent, very specialised submarines we are talking about capable of the extreme pressure per square centimetre
it’s as dangerous if not more dangerous than heading out too space!…everyone is aware that is taking part. And if it’s tangled on the wreckage then they can’t just be pulled up either.
I would say most likely they are doomed, unless they can stumble across a miracle and get a capable sub for those depths too head down and aid the stuck sub in freeing it, highly unlikely
also if there was damage too the sub some how, then there would be nothing too recover, let’s say the Sub is the size of an average living room, any fault in the structure would instantly squish it too the size of a baby pram, no suffering, just crushed in a blip
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Anyone else find it convenient that the CEO was on the sub too just about as his company is going to get some very bad press 
That's... Crass...
In some 3rd world country you lot are by their standards more than wealthy your basic citizen benefits can worth a couple months of their salary. Doesnt make it less of a tragedy and joke worthy if you died while taking a skiing trip or a hot air balloon trip they deemed a luxury