Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they have to pay the cost of the search and rescue/recovery efforts. Utter BS. It’s like the people who set sail for another continent with a week of food and an old boat radio.

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Taxpayers should not have to pay to rescue these fools.

Guys they’re dead, you can’t bill them

Why can’t you bill their estate?

Billing people for SAR makes it less likely that the next person will be willing to call for help when necessary.

Fine with me.

Neat. Well, thankfully you aren’t in charge.

Thankfully this is a rare occurrence. Do they deserve to be rescued? I guess? But I believe nature has taken care of them already. Darwin and all.

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Gives new meaning to the term “tourist trap”.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the Pakistani Navy steaming to the rescue?

They are British citizens, moron.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the Pakistani Navy steaming to the rescue?

They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

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They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

No, they are from a prominent Parkistani family, but are British citizens themselves. .

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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.

Why should it stop? These people spent their own money and went in voluntarily having assessed the risks and resolved them to their satisfaction. Presumably, with the kind of money the spent on a frolic, they were pretty sophisticated.

If it turns out they guessed wrong, that’s on them. People have a right to decide things for themselves.

Keep up the extreme tourism if people want, but no public funds should be spent on rescue missions.

We have children and adults in this country that do not have enough food to eat, yet we instead divert funds to the Coast Guard to spend money on rescuing these idiots.

So I will ask again, I take it you don’t think the USCG should rescue crab fisherman either! Nice name calling by the way. I guess those who consume king crab are also idiots.

Apples and oranges, crab fishermen are earning a living. Awful analogy

The CEO of OceanGate is onboard - he is (or was) currently earning a living. Who has an awful analogy?

Oh, you’re just being willfully ignorant. Got it.

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So will there be a search for the submersible's wreckage?

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They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

No, they are from a prominent Parkistani family, but are British citizens themselves. .

He is one of Pakistan’s richest men? Doesn’t that make him Pakistani?

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They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

No, they are from a prominent Parkistani family, but are British citizens themselves. .

He is one of Pakistan’s richest men? Doesn’t that make him Pakistani?

Why not call him one of Britain’s richest men?

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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!

This post is really just looking for something to be upset about. Unusual events always get more news coverage than more commonplace ones. In some ways, that's the definition of newsworthy. A boat full of migrants capsizing with hundreds of deaths is tragic, but sadly not that uncommon. Whereas people potentially being crushed to death or suffocating at the site of the Titanic is not exactly standard fare.

So you’re trying to say we’re just like the Romans: mass shooting death is boring and commonplace, but being mauled to death in the Colosseum, now that’s a story!!

Humans are drawn to the interesting and unusual, yes; but fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, mass shootings are not boring and not commonplace. Nor is anything to do with the Titanic, the unsinkable ship.

Actually mass shootings are commonplace and they are beginning to be treated more casually in the media. Just a few shot, none killed no big deal. Group of adults shot and killed, bigger deal. School shooting still a big deal but not as big a deal as Columbine. They televised the funerals of those kids back then.

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They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

No, they are from a prominent Parkistani family, but are British citizens themselves. .

He is one of Pakistan’s richest men? Doesn’t that make him Pakistani?

They are British-Pakistani. You can play games or deny their nationality but it's a bit ugly, especially considering the circumstances.

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Haven’t read the entire thread. Has anyone mentioned how even if the submersible surfaces the crew cannot open it from the inside??? Ugh. I expect a worst case scenario but the idea of them making it back to the surface withouT being found and suffocating makes it even more horrible to imagine being the crew. Of course, their families will have some closure in that situation.

In my imagination though — the hull was somehow compromised prohibiting it from resurfacing.

These people knew that it was a huge risk to go, but it is still horrible to imagine what they may have gone through if they didn’t pass out first.

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What are the seven ways the vessel could be brought up?

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They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

No, they are from a prominent Parkistani family, but are British citizens themselves. .

He is one of Pakistan’s richest men? Doesn’t that make him Pakistani?

They are British-Pakistani. You can play games or deny their nationality but it's a bit ugly, especially considering the circumstances.

Ugly? How so? Everything I have read calls him one of Pakistan’s richest men. It’s a bit confusing, as it sounds as if he is Pakistani. No skin off my teeth though. I don’t care what he is. It’s just confusing. He is both British and Pakistani obviously, but he’s referred to as a rich Pakistani man.

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They are British citizens, moron.

Not all, the one guy and his poor son were Pakistani nationals.

No, they are from a prominent Parkistani family, but are British citizens themselves. .

He is one of Pakistan’s richest men? Doesn’t that make him Pakistani?

Are you slow?

No, I am rather swift actually