Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Anonymous wrote:Because you can say you visited the site of the Titanic. If someone said that at a dinner party, I'm sure you'd say "Wow, how interesting. How was it?". One of the paying guests was a UK billionaire who had also gone to space. He must be the sort who lives for those special thrills that hardly anybody gets to do. It's a known pyschological thing that very wealthy people who've done all the usual thrills tend to seek out extreme experiences.

This. I doubt they’ll be able to attend more dinner parties.

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Anonymous wrote:The submersible is sealed with 17 21" bolts that can only be unscrewed from the outside.

Really?? What an awful design flaw.

Why? It's not like they could open it, exit, and swim to the surface.

NP. It's still a design flaw and suggestive that if one such feature is so ill-considered, there may be other similar flaws. Anything with any electrical components can catch fire, and plenty of things can happen out of the water, or at a non-fatal depth, where they might want to be able to effect their own egress. Read about Apollo 1; it had a hatch door that had a ton of bolts and could only open inward. They had an electrical short during a training test, which started a flash fire; the astronauts couldn't get all the bolts undone and even if they had, it didn't matter because the hatch only opened inward and the fire caused the internal cabin pressure to rise so high that it was physically impossible to manually pull the door open against it. The astronauts all died in about 3 minutes without ever leaving the launchpad.

To slowly suffocate in a submarine thousands of feet under the sea sounds like a horror movie. If they're dead, I hope it was really fast and they knew little about it. And that nobody gets hurt on this rescue/recovery mission.

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This sounds like it would be a horrific death. I had a boyfriend who was a marine biologist and for a “fun” experiment they used to bring large styrofoam cups on expositions and send them down very deep in the ocean. The cups would return miniaturized due to the intense pressure.

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Anonymous wrote:$250,000 per person.

Wtf?
You could buy someone a house in many parts of the country. Or buy 4+ people an affordable car. This is ridiculous, paying 250k to possibly die while touring a ship lots of people died on.

+10000

It is a statement of excess and extreme privilege

And now the taxpayers must foot the bill for their rescue mission.

Which we do for any maritime accident. Are you the one to judge who reimburses which rescue? What about mountaineering accidents? We have rescue teams to rescue people regardless of why they get in trouble.[b] Part of modern society.

Yes and those individuals are charged for the costs of the rescue. Just like this company will be charged.

Sorry but you are not charged for USCG rescues.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that they can’t communicate and haven’t surfaced points to a hull breach.

Honestly that’s probably the best case for these people. Quick.

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Anonymous wrote:The idea of having tourism to visit a gravesite of people who drowned in the most awful way at sea is just ick. Everything they need to see could be seen by sending unoccupied vessels down there, I can’t imagine the level of risk seeking and morbid curiosity that would combine to send them down there in that contraption.

I’ll pray for them but I’ll be praying harder for the US Coast Guards and others who will be risking their lives to try to save them.

The same could be said for the USS Arizona/Pearl Harbor, any of the concentration camps throughout Europe catacombs in Rome, and the list goes on...

Yes, they are all graveside.

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*gravesites*

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Anonymous wrote:$250,000 per person.

Wtf?
You could buy someone a house in many parts of the country. Or buy 4+ people an affordable car. This is ridiculous, paying 250k to possibly die while touring a ship lots of people died on.

+10000

It is a statement of excess and extreme privilege

And now the taxpayers must foot the bill for their rescue mission.

Which we do for any maritime accident. Are you the one to judge who reimburses which rescue? What about mountaineering accidents? We have rescue teams to rescue people regardless of why they get in trouble. Part of modern society.

Also is the American Coast Guard even running this? Canadian taxpayers are footing the bill.

The US is running the operation, assisted by Canada.

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Anonymous wrote:And here I was thinking people who tried to climb Everest were really foolish.

They are. So are these people. And the Antarctica travelers. More money than brains.

+10000

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Anonymous wrote:And here I was thinking people who tried to climb Everest were really foolish.

They are. So are these people. And the Antarctica travelers. More money than brains.

+10000

At Everest to it--except that they're also paying poor locals to be their pack mules, EMT's and gravediggers as well.

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I’m sorry they are lost, but the extent and scope of the media coverage on this is ridiculous. These are five rich people who willingly chose to go on a dangerous morbid site seeing exercise. It is getting significant media attention only because it has all the “right” elements to appeal to stupid people who consume news: Titanic, submarine, missing rich people, limited oxygen.

Meanwhile, a migrant boat capsized off Greece last week (possibly caused by the Greek Coast Guard itself) with up to 700 deaths, and there is shockingly little coverage of it, only because it has all the “wrong” elements: poor migrants, rickety boat, official involvement in the disaster.

Ironically, the migrant boat was carrying a lot of poor Pakistanis, and the Titanic sub apparently has two rich Pakistani tourists aboard. So tell me as a society what we care about: money!

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I had no idea you could do this. Now that I know about it, I still won’t be signing up…

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry they are lost, but the extent and scope of the media coverage on this is ridiculous. These are five rich people who willingly chose to go on a dangerous morbid site seeing exercise. It is getting significant media attention only because it has all the “right” elements to appeal to stupid people who consume news: Titanic, submarine, missing rich people, limited oxygen.

Meanwhile, a migrant boat capsized off Greece last week (possibly caused by the Greek Coast Guard itself) with up to 700 deaths, and there is shockingly little coverage of it, only because it has all the “wrong” elements: poor migrants, rickety boat, official involvement in the disaster.

Ironically, the migrant boat was carrying a lot of poor Pakistanis, and the Titanic sub apparently has two rich Pakistani tourists aboard. So tell me as a society what we care about: money!

I read your post and all I can say is “duh”. Yes, money rules the world. It always has and always will. ???

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Anonymous wrote:So funny suggesting how people should spend their money. Given they have seven ways to surface and the ocean is very big, they could be floating and not found yet.

Common-cause failure.

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There is no way I’d go to the ocean floor in a homemade submarine controlled by a modified video game controller.