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Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/floridaman
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This one is just adorable.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd imagine it's because no country's coast guard has jurisdiction over international waters. IIRC, they shipped OceanGate out on what was presumably an actual seaworthy vessel, then once they were out in the badlands, nobody could stop them killing themselves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But they left from somewhere, and I thought I had read that he had industry people concerned with his building practices. So people were aware that it wouldn't be sea worthy for what he was purporting to do.