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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mother of the kid was on the mothership waiting all that time for the submersible to return. Apparently she was meant to go with her husband and gave the seat to her kid instead - a sacrifice she shouldn’t have made and which she undoubtedly will forever regret. Better two middle aged fools die than for their teenager to be snuffed out before he’s even lived.[/quote]

CNN article/interview with the mother:

[url]https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/world/christine-dawood-interview-titan-submersible-scli-intl/index.html[/url]

I find this choppy and poorly written. I do feel terrible for her and her family.

But I also heard [i]this[/i] story on NPR this morning and can't help but think how much of a difference $500k would make to a family like this:

[url]https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184268046/migrant-dad-trying-to-help-his-ill-child-is-one-of-many-presume-dead-in-ship-sin[/url][/quote]

Yes it all feels so wasteful and tragic.  All the money to get in the submersible, all the resources spent on the search effort and now to recover the wreckage, etc.  The end result is five lives lost.  All of those resources could have literally changed people’s lives who are suffering.  [/quote]

Well, I don't see it as money wasted. Underwater tourism was (and still is) unregulated sector. This incident will bring more regulations so it doesn't happen again. [/quote]

I see it as money not well spent.  Underwater tourism regulation is not how I would prefer tax dollars spent as opposed to things that actually help our citizens.[/quote]

Uh... underwater tourism regulations would literally help  our civilians.[/quote]

The objective of regulation is to prevent incidents like this happening again. There are people with money, time, and interest who want to see underwater as long as it's safe. This guy was diving 10 times deeper than US military sub built out of titanium with his plastic toy sub. Don't you think that should've been regulated? I don't know what you are rambling about. [/quote]

In your paragraph of a response to my one sentence, you imply I'm against regulation when I never said anything of the sort, and yet, I'm the one who's rambling?  :lol:  Regulations would have probably saved 5 lives.  I'm all for them.

Also, regulations are usually made in response to accidents like this.  [/quote]

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