Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Another reminder to never, ever board a craft of any kind that has no co-pilot.

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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.

Great, but what about the people who are rescuing them? and the taxpayers paying that bill? It's not all about the people who went.

You have a valid point about the rescuers but not the tax money spent. That is not an important consideration when we are talking about peoples' lives. Regardless of what you think got them into that situation.

You people are soulless a$$holes.

Funny because we don’t pull out all the stops to quell the violence in the inner city that is destroying thousands of young black kids who just had the misfortune to be born there, but sure, let’s spend millions to rescue a bunch of privileged people who willingly put themselves in this pickle. Maybe if they were as careful with their lives as they were with their businesses, this wouldn’t have happened. No one else’s life should be put in jeopardy for this kind of nonsense.

+ 1 million

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Anonymous wrote:Another reminder to never, ever board a craft of any kind that has no co-pilot.

I don’t think that would have mattered in this case.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unconfirmed reports on Twitter about tapping sounds being picked up by sonar

This is why I hate social media. You can say anything, cause a frenzy, and get away with it.

Like here!

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This is my guess. The vessel gave under pressure and crumbled and sank. After many uses/dives I bet material fatigue made it structurally unsound. You read it here first.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unconfirmed reports on Twitter about tapping sounds being picked up by sonar

I’m usually pretty skeptical about such reports, but if “many people on Twitter” are saying it…

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This thread is so effing weird. Kneejerk liberal reaction of "billionaires bad >"

And yet...the people on board the submarine aren't the ones making tasteless jokes about people who are probably dead.

Idk you couldn't pay ME $250k to get on that thing but I also think they're human beings with loved ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unconfirmed reports on Twitter about tapping sounds being picked up by sonar

It really doesn’t matter. I don’t think there’s a way to get them up or out. I hope they have Valium and/or sleeping pills and the ceo told them they have enough oxygen for 4 days so they aren’t aware of what’s actually happening when they become oxygen deprived.

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Anonymous wrote:Another reminder to never, ever board a craft of any kind that has no co-pilot.

What would a copilot have done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is my guess. The vessel gave under pressure and crumbled and sank. After many uses/dives I bet material fatigue made it structurally unsound. You read it here first.

This seems like the most likely scenario.

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Anonymous wrote:Another reminder to never, ever board a craft of any kind that has no co-pilot.

What would a copilot have done?

We will never know. Maybe the only person who knew how to operate it had a heart attack. The point is never get yourself into this scenario.

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Why people continue to want to explore outer space and the ocean floor is beyond me. These are people who lack all imagination for what is in front of them right here at ground level.

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Anonymous wrote:This is my guess. The vessel gave under pressure and crumbled and sank. After many uses/dives I bet material fatigue made it structurally unsound. You read it here first.

This seems like the most likely scenario.

+1

I think most are operating under this assumption, but want to exhaust all reasonable avenues before officially “calling it”.

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And yet...the people on board the submarine aren't the ones making tasteless jokes about people who are probably dead.

Well, they can’t. They’re likely dead.

And how the hell do you know what they joked about when they were alive?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we wasting our resources on these idiots?

We try to rescue people. Usually because they did something dumb. Because it's the right thing to do.

Nobody tried to rescue those 700 migrants currently sitting on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. I wonder why.

Are you f_ucking KIDDING me?!

The Greek Coast Guard made an attempt to rescue them and tow them to shore in Greece. They declined assistance because they wanted to go to Italy instead of Greece.

And then, when the boat capsized, the Greek coast guard still had to rescue them!!!!