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Titan submarine for Titanic tourism - Nightmare fuel
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StreetsofBeige
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My exposure to the situation is reading this gaf thread and maybe one article on CP24. Woop-dee-do. Its an oddball situation of a wrecked sub, but I'd rather watch something more fun like baseball or last night I watched the old Arnie classic Predator which was on one of the movie channels.
But that's news shows for ya. It's a baity industry to begin with where ratings are dependent on whats happening in the world combined with editors in the background turning anything from this deep sea dive to a teenager wiping out on his BMX into the most eye popping news bites ever.
Mossybrew
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I'm no expert but I think this thing imploded and they were all dead before the story even broke.
I figure after the weekend the media will have moved on to the next random story to overhype and we won't hear much more about it.
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chromhound
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So the owner sent them on a suicide mission
Sleepwalker
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ManaByte
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“Hey what’s that soun…”
Impotaku
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Rip
Cyberpunkd
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Money doesn’t buy you brains. There was a former chief of the French Navy on board, you would have thought that is one person that would know shit when he saw one.
TheMan
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If there’s a bright side it’s that they didn’t suffer
SirKicksalot
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Titan submersible updates as it happened: Search boss becomes emotional as he recounts moment 'rescue mission turned to recovery'
The leader of the search team which found the wreckage of the Titan gave a new update on the doomed rescue operation. The vessel imploded while making a journey to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board. Recap what happened in the latest news conference below.
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Dr.Morris79
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I'd never heard of that, really nasty stuff. As horrible as it is though I'd probably prefer that as a way to goThe video in the opening post reminds me of the Byford Dolphin Incident which involved a similar concept. Basically it was a large moveable oil platform that had a diving bell and decompression chambers. One of the divers used the incorrect procedure and the chamber exploded due to decompression with bodies literally torn apart in seconds. I'm not sure if this is true, but they say it happened so quickly that their brains didn't realize they were dead, though this could be for drama.
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Such a dangerous job.
DeceptiveAlarm
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V1LÆM
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I'm in the uk and anytime I put the news on this was all they were talking about. Inflation and interest rates were mentioned only now and then....Ykno, shit people were worrying about because it affects their lives.
I really didn't expect this whole sub shit to dominate the headlines. A good distraction I suppose
Burger
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The whole thing comes off as sort of almost-legit. Big ticket prices, fancy looking kit. But beneath the surface it's a boys club printing their own 'mission patches' and posing for pictures next to the toy submarine. Like actually mental as soon as you learn a few details. How they got away with it for so long is amazing.
Agent Ironside
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To think there's possibly a logitech controller amongst the ruins of the Titanic.
Lukaku's First Touch
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Are their bodies now crushed into paste or how does that work?
Nitty_Grimes
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Oh yeah click your fingers and gone mate. Might be some bones but just get a red felt tip pen and put it in a cup of water for the same effect of what it looks like.
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V1LÆM
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Depends what depth they were at but they were almost 2 hours down. I think it takes about 2 and a half hours to get to the titanic. (Edit. That might be wrong. Could be about 6 hours)
Any oxygen in their system is gone so collapsed lungs for starters. Most of the human body is water. We're basically just lumps of flesh. The force of the materials of the sub might have made it more violent. Probably just ended up a mess of blood, flesh, and bone. Whatever lives down there will eat away at whatever remains. So basically nothing left of the people. There is debris of the sub and that'll lie beside titanic now.
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ssringo
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I thought it was revealed he knew it was some bullshit risky business but felt he couldn't pass up the chance regardless. Though I might be mixing that up with another person. Kinda difficult to navigate the news around this.
Pegasus Actual
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Our guy? That dude made computer games... that basically makes him Satan around these parts.
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Kamina
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V1LÆM
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That's what I heard too. If you're spending 200-250k on a janky ass tin can then you can afford to pay for a proper sub. Should've got in touch with Gabe Newell or James Cameron.
I'm sad they are dead but how stupid can you be? Would you go into space in a Jerry rigged rocket and a cheap space suit?
jshackles
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Not with that attitude you wouldn't
StreetsofBeige
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And an article said the directions of the analog were 90 degrees off. So an interdimensional green goblin will land on Earth a million years from now after its been nuked and examine the gamepad.
The alien will do some techno-reconstruction and be amazed at a small controller can navigate a mini-sub. But will be puzzled why these two legged creatures made it so pressing left means up when everything else examined on Earth shows up means up, and when it comes to airplanes, down can mean pitch up.
It'll be the only thing on Earth where left means up where it'll be an eternal mindbender on Planet Xerxes 2.81 light years away.
"They cant be that stupid on Earth. There must be a reason why left means up"
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Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
That's not attitude that's called caution or common sense.
Insane Metal
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Come on I want news.
Herbspiceguy
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The millionaires club is now heavily debating on how to present a statement that it imploded on Sunday, due rich people's poor judgement and hubris, to minimize the shit from hitting the fan.
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Cyberpunkd
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But here’s the thing - I always thought if you are a military bro you know that 0.00001% this ends badly is too much. It’s the same with airplane pilots.
Sleepwalker
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Yes
Herbspiceguy
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Yes, and that likely diminished integrity of the carbon fiber hull.
ssringo
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JCK75
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Don't get me wrong, nothing offends me, it's never too soon to make jokes IMO..
But usually when bad shit happens I'm being careful who I joke about it to.. but for some reason this event..
everyone who would tell me too soon is making constant jokes.
almost like it's that rich lives don't matter.
But usually when bad shit happens I'm being careful who I joke about it to.. but for some reason this event..
everyone who would tell me too soon is making constant jokes.
almost like it's that rich lives don't matter.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I think it's moreso stupid and filthy rich that don't matter
jufonuk
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The only person I feel sorry for is the young kid in there, the rest knew the score why they went into it is beyond me ?!?
From BBC website:
- Debris from the missing Titan sub has been found in the search site, a friend of the passengers says
- David Mearns tells the BBC a "landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible" were seen
- A debris field was found on the seabed near the Titanic wreck, the US Coast Guard announced earlier
- The Coast Guard will hold a press conference at 15:00 local time (20:00bst) with more information
- Contact with the sub - which has five people on board - was lost on Sunday as it made a descent to the Titanic wreck
JakeWolf
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Yes but several mission were canceld due to safety concerns before this
winjer
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The thing is that this tragedy was avoidable if the owner of the company hadn't made so many glaring mistakes, to the point of absurdity. The level of stupidity is staggering, so it's difficult to take this situation seriously.
Draugoth
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They found the submersible parts,
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Everyone died of an implosion
Titan submersible updates as it happened: Search boss becomes emotional as he recounts moment 'rescue mission turned to recovery'
The leader of the search team which found the wreckage of the Titan gave a new update on the doomed rescue operation. The vessel imploded while making a journey to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board. Recap what happened in the latest news conference below.
Everyone died of an implosion
Fbh
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RIP I guess
At least if it was an implosion they didn't suffer.
The memes are hilarious though
People generally have less sympathy for those seen as being in a privileged position.
But also they paid $250K for what anyone with common sense could see was a death trap so it's hard to feel too sorry for them aside from the 19 years old kid
At least if it was an implosion they didn't suffer.
The memes are hilarious though
People generally have less sympathy for those seen as being in a privileged position.
But also they paid $250K for what anyone with common sense could see was a death trap so it's hard to feel too sorry for them aside from the 19 years old kid
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