Pete-MK(Elite Donator) posted this on Thursday, 22nd June 2023, 10:55
Looks like time may be running out for the 5 billionaires in an unsafe tin can that was made with money over safety in mind.
And that's not being flippant. The guy who runs the company actually said that safety concerns were getting in the way of 'commercial innovation.'
Plus one of the guys who worked for the company was fired, and sued for stating that the porthole wasn't safe to be used at the depths they were taking it to.
I feel for the families, apart from the son of one of the guys in the sub, who tweeted a picture of himself smiling at a Blink-182 while his dad was at the bottom of the ocean.
Jitendar Canth(Reviewer) posted this on Thursday, 22nd June 2023, 11:56
Yeah well, a couple of weeks ago, 500 migrants, including hundreds of children drowned in the Med, and the Greek coastguard lied about helping them. But that's just a statistic.
This is a human interest story.
=========================== Jitendar Canth
Quote: "I thought what I`d do was, I`d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."
Gareth Williams(Elite) posted this on Thursday, 22nd June 2023, 19:55
Seems like the sub suffered a catastrophic implosion, likely days ago when they lost contact.
Fishes enjoying some expensive soup right now.
RE: Missing Titanic Sub
Snaps(Elite) posted this on Thursday, 22nd June 2023, 20:34
Quote: Jitendar Canth says... "Yeah well, a couple of weeks ago, 500 migrants, including hundreds of children drowned in the Med, and the Greek coastguard lied about helping them. But that's just a statistic." Unfortunately when these boats are lost on a regular basis from a news standpoint it's the law of diminishing returns. Albeit the amount of lives lost in this one instance got it to the top of the news pile for a while.
It's the unusual aspect of the sub that got it to the top of the news pile and not the wealth of those onboard. That and the horror I think most of us would share of being locked in a metal tube 4 Kilometres down. For comparison maybe go back and look at the coverage of the Kursk back in 2000
To paraphrase a Navy physician interviewed today 'If we weren't going to get them back dying from a catastrophic implosion is by far the best way to have gone.'
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RE: Missing Titanic Sub
Pete-MK(Elite Donator) posted this on Friday, 23rd June 2023, 06:47
Oddly enough, James Cameron has become quite the well-connected expert when it comes to taking subs down to the Titanic, and all the dangers inherent with the trip.
Quote: "I felt in my bones what had happened. For the sub's electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously - sub's gone." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65994707
He also insinuates that once the remote search vehicle was deployed, the sub would have been found within hours, directly below its last known location
Quote: Cameron told BBC News the past week had "felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff".
"I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That's exactly where they found it," So what they've been doing pratting about for the last few days god only knows
RJS(undefined) posted this on Friday, 23rd June 2023, 07:52
Quote: Pete-MK says... "So what they've been doing pratting about for the last few days god only knows" Trying to work out how to save their business, I suspect.
Snaps(Elite) posted this on Friday, 23rd June 2023, 18:48
Quote: RJS says... "Trying to work out how to save their business, I suspect." Despite the somewhat hawkish statements coming from Oceangate I'd imagine they will be in liquidation or just plain bankrupt in the not too distant future. Partially to avoid the incoming rush of legal action.
Pete-MK(Elite Donator) posted this on Friday, 23rd June 2023, 19:39
Given that everyone who has ever publicly declared that the sub should have been classified by an independent body, and that it was a catastrophe waiting to happen, is now leaning against a wall with their arms folded and have adopted a collective 'told-you-so' expression, it's fair ro assume that everyone connected with the company that isn't currently occupying a space smaller than your average can of beans is going to be sued every which way from Sunday, I'd say that's a fair bet. Waivers be damned.
One can only hope that actual after-the-horse-has-bolted laws are put into place, not only to protect what's left of the titanic, but also to stop money-grabbing arseholes from exploiting those poor, rich idiots.
Snaps(Elite) posted this on Friday, 23rd June 2023, 20:24
Quote: Pete-MK says... "but also to stop money-grabbing arseholes from exploiting those poor, rich idiots." Given the wealth of the atomised I'd guess there's going to be a lot will contesting before we even get to the legal actions.
