Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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. ???

Well then it bears repeating in this context especially. How many millions will be spent trying (and ultimately failing) to rescue these idiots while the authorities actively capsized the migrant boat last week killing hundreds. Unconscionable.

[Anonymous]

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

Yeah nobody thought you were going to at $250k a person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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. ???

Well then it bears repeating in this context especially. How many millions will be spent trying (and ultimately failing) to rescue these idiots while the authorities actively capsized the migrant boat last week killing hundreds. Unconscionable.

Obviously all life doesn’t hold the same value.

[Anonymous]

It is the same excess of wealth, hubris, and reliance on flawed, yet cutting edge technology that led to the sinking of the Titanic. The parallels give me chills. What an unnecessary nightmare. I hope for a good outcome.

Although well-intentioned, this kind of tourism should stop. The parallels drawn in other posts to Gettysburg, etc., aren't the same because those are far more accessible- no great wealth required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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. ???

Well then it bears repeating in this context especially. How many millions will be spent trying (and ultimately failing) to rescue these idiots while the authorities actively capsized the migrant boat last week killing hundreds. Unconscionable.

I guess America should strongly condemn Greece's treatment of refugees. That won't seem hypocritical.

[Anonymous]

Even if these people had 96 hours of oxygen I don’t think they had any water. And I believe you can only live three days without water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Modern tourism to Antartica isn't death defying. Sometimes uncomfortable but not usually deadly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the same excess of wealth, hubris, and reliance on flawed, yet cutting edge technology that led to the sinking of the Titanic. The parallels give me chills. What an unnecessary nightmare. I hope for a good outcome.

Although well-intentioned, this kind of tourism should stop. The parallels drawn in other posts to Gettysburg, etc., aren't the same because those are far more accessible- no great wealth required.

There's also historical merit to visiting Gettysburg - there's a museum there, monuments, historical interpreters, etc.

Taking a submarine to look out a peephole at a shipwreck is a little different. It's literally just looking at someone's grave, whereas I feel like with the poor guys who died at Gettysburg, you are honoring their memory by learning about the cause they died for. Idk that's probably just me parsing it out.

Regardless, I still don't like all the jokes I'm seeing around the internet about how these people somehow deserve it because they're billionaires who spent insane money to do this. They're people too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if these people had 96 hours of oxygen I don’t think they had any water. And I believe you can only live three days without water.

Drinking your own urine would give you another day or two.

But it’s moot point, as all signs point to a sudden hull collapse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Modern tourism to Antartica isn't death defying. Sometimes uncomfortable but not usually deadly

This, it's literally a cruise, albeit a very expensive one to keep up with the cost of heating the boat in Antartica lol. The worst part I've heard is the Drake Passage (choppy patch of water between South America and Antartica) but other than that it's supposedly nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if these people had 96 hours of oxygen I don’t think they had any water. And I believe you can only live three days without water.

The awful irony, being —surrounded— by water. (Nondrinkable, I know, but still.)

[Anonymous]

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

I would not go to these depths for free or even if they paid me $1M. And I have so much anxiety that it would be difficult to cope if any of my loved ones went.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if these people had 96 hours of oxygen I don’t think they had any water. And I believe you can only live three days without water.

The awful irony, being —surrounded— by water. (Nondrinkable, I know, but still.)

Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink...

[Anonymous]

I like to think that it made it to the surface and they are bobbing in the ocean able to look out while the run out of air.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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. ???

Well then it bears repeating in this context especially. How many millions will be spent trying (and ultimately failing) to rescue these idiots while the authorities actively capsized the migrant boat last week killing hundreds. Unconscionable.

I was just thinking the same thing. Crazy world we live in.