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[–] impulse 21 points 1 year ago

This whole company and operation sounds like a really expensive way to fuck around and find out.

[–] NABDad 17 points 1 year ago

This is going to sound heartless as hell, but I hope they bill the company and the estates of the passengers for the costs of the rescue effort.

This whole premise, going in a submersible to visit the Titanic, is such a completely unnecessary risk to take, that I have trouble having any sympathy for anyone involved.

It's not like they were going to have any more of an experience than they would via a submersible rover. They can't get out of the sub and walk around and touch things. The most they could do is look out a porthole and get a view no different than they'd get from a remote camera. This was just a completely pointless waste by people with more money then sense.

[–] 666dollarfootlong 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this is a valuable learning experience for him

[–] Confuzzeled 13 points 1 year ago

He'll be sitting there tapping on the hull and freezing his ass off thinking "I'm sure glad I didn't spend any of my millions on a second backup sub." Redundancy is for losers.

[–] CaptainBlagbird 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pogue read aloud from a passenger waiver he signed before riding in the craft that described the Titan as an “experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death.”

I can imagine that all voyages like that have a clause regarding inury/death, but the part about not being approved/certified really should ring your bells..

[–] GONADS125 3 points 1 year ago

https://youtu.be/29co_Hksk6o?t=159

I would not have so much as entertained the thought of entering their submersible...

[–] Tugboater203 9 points 1 year ago

It's 0600 EDT as I type this. This time was the projected "best case scenario " for their oxygen supply.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

its one thing to have that attitude when its just your life on the line. its another when you start putting other peoples life in your hands. and something else altogether when youre taking money to put peoples lifes in your hands. fuck that guy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Paywall, anyone got the text?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
[–] Cinner 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] pseudo 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] Cinner 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that, thanks!

[–] nucleative 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] syrupwaffle 5 points 1 year ago

I think we're on a better footing than the dumpsterfire that was Voat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Will try to get them to work on mobile later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Based on that last article update, it sounds like they implied on their website that they had a closer collaboration with Boeing and NASA on the sub's design and manufacture than actually existed. I don't see why anyone would trust them at this point, even if they did find the sub and everyone was unharmed.

[–] onionbaggage 3 points 1 year ago

That'll be a juicy quote for the lawsuit.

[–] syrupwaffle 0 points 1 year ago

He loved the strategy boardgame? Interesting factoid I guess...

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