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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It seems as though they got around the regulation issue, because it was in international waters, and because the craft was built in one country and launched from another.  I wonder how those issues will be addressed.[/quote]

Those are (and many more) the issues this incident will bubble up. The are many issues CEO bypassed - from poor engineering, regs, lack of testing...etc. Someone should be asking how this thing even hit the water to begin with?? [/quote]

It's not like this was its maiden voyage.  It made multiple dives before, and people lived to tell about it.[/quote]

The damage was cumulative…as he was warned.[/quote]

Obviously these submersibles can’t be treated like tour buses.  I wonder if it is even possible to maintain them over time or if they just have to be regularly broken down and then rebuilt from scratch?[/quote]

This. You can't "patch" that hull. The hull they had no way of verify or measuring its degredation.[/quote]

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