I dunno why this is a thing. These people paid $250 000 for the ‘Titanic experience’. Dying in the ocean is an integral part of that. 

Boru

(June 22, 2023 at 3:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I dunno why this is a thing. These people paid $250 000 for the ‘Titanic experience’. Dying in the ocean is an integral part of that. 

Boru

But they missed out on the slowly freezing and drowning part.   Their deaths were instantaneous.     They should ask for their money back.

(June 21, 2023 at 10:15 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Communication with a deep sea submersible carrying 5 people who paid $250,000 each to gawk at the scene of the famous maritime disaster has been lost since sunday.    The submersible’s whereabout is unknown.

A rather impressive array of search and rescue assets, including naval anti submarine warfare assets, have been searching without results since.   It seems to me the array of assets involved is rather larger than one normally see searching for 5 lost mariners. 

Yeah, 5 privileged thrill-seeking men pay $250k to view a sunken boat; navy, air force, coast guard, state air guard rescue, front page news

While desperate migrants die on sea and no rescue, not much news cover.

'Spose this will deter anyone else from trying?

My guess is another Daddy Warbucks is going to try to do that trick successfully.

(June 22, 2023 at 4:31 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: 'Spose this will deter anyone else from trying?

My guess is another Daddy Warbucks is going to try to do that trick successfully.

since there are now two debris fields to gawk at instead of just one, the attraction should be twice as great.

There’s a certain poetic justice in watching a company that scoffed at safety measures and filled a vessel with crazy rich people get into trouble while trying to gawk at the remains of a company that scoffed at safety measures and filled a vessel with crazy rich people.

Boru

There’s a lot of tasteless jokes being made about that submersible. How can people sink so low?

Boru

Long John Silver's is having a special on tourists.

(June 22, 2023 at 4:26 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:

(June 21, 2023 at 10:15 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Communication with a deep sea submersible carrying 5 people who paid $250,000 each to gawk at the scene of the famous maritime disaster has been lost since sunday.    The submersible’s whereabout is unknown.

A rather impressive array of search and rescue assets, including naval anti submarine warfare assets, have been searching without results since.   It seems to me the array of assets involved is rather larger than one normally see searching for 5 lost mariners. 

Yeah, 5 privileged thrill-seeking men pay $250k to view a sunken boat; navy, air force, coast guard, state air guard rescue, front page news

While desperate migrants die on sea and no rescue, not much news cover.

Well, technically three privileged thrill-seeking men paying $250k. Two of the five were crew members. Also, given that two of the three were father and son, I suspect it might only be two wallets being opened.

Frankly, if there's anyone who really doesn't deserve sympathy, it's the people who made the damn sub. I can remember watching James Cameron's Titanic and the opening scenes were set on a somewhat similar submersible. I say somewhat similar because I remember them going out of their way to explain how high-tech everything was, and how everything was still in a precarious situation, since if any of the windows cracked, everyone involved was dead. And this wound up being the exact opposite of High-Tech.  

You know what they used for navigation? This.


It's a Bluetooth video game controller that costs $30 new on Amazon. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the sort of hardware that exists to help you play Ocarina of Time is not the same sort of hardware you should trust to keep you alive 12,000 feet below sea level.

There's more information on the Titan's previous voyage. At least it survived that time, but there were still a lot of red flags:




And because they operated in international waters, they apparently weren't even subject to any sort of safety regulations.

(June 22, 2023 at 5:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There’s a lot of tasteless jokes being made about that submersible. How can people sink so low?

Boru

The lost submersible Titan and its destination Titanic used to be separated by “-ic”.    Not anymore.