OceanGate Titan submersible incident

[Rachey]

"democratise the ocean floor"?! Erm...what?!

 

[floppet]

Those "brave souls" weren't down there doing research, they were ghoulishly viewing a shipwreck for their own pleasure Boris.

 

[Zu]

Those "brave souls" weren't down there doing research, they were ghoulishly viewing a shipwreck for their own pleasure Boris.

I’d somehow forgotten in the midst of all this that they were visiting yer actual DEATH SITE

 

[Kratz]

So far we have Johnson articles on Wegovy and THIS

DM getting its money’s worth?

 

[floppet]

I’d somehow forgotten in the midst of all this that they were visiting yer actual DEATH SITE

It's a memorial gravesite and they went down there to get bragging rights. Very few people have seen the wreck close-up and almost all of them are researchers and scientists (and James bloody Cameron obviously but he's a legitimate deep-sea expert and also helps NASA so I let him off).

 

[Art Decade]

OceanGate Co-Founder Defends ‘Titan’ Sub After James Cameron Comments, Says Test Program Was 'Rigorous'

Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-founder of OceanGate with CEO Stockton Rush has said the Titan Submersible "was very robust" amid criticism of its safety.

people.com

The attempts to evade prison begin.

 

[Finn]

I hadn't realised James Cameron had been down there SO MUCH, or just how dangerous a trip it is.

Imagine if things had gone differently, we wouldn't have those wonderful Avatar films

 

[octophone]

"democratise the ocean floor"?! Erm...what?!

A walking bullshit generator. Was Ghislane Maxwell not involved in some weird attempt to declare the ocean floor to be lawless/stateless or some such?

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Ross Kemp had planned to film TV show on Titanic sub

Five people died after OceanGate's Titan sub imploded during a trip to the Titanic wreck this week.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[octophone]

Ross Kemp had planned to film TV show on Titanic sub

Five people died after OceanGate's Titan sub imploded during a trip to the Titanic wreck this week.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ross Kemp, in the sub when the pressure goes...

 

[Art Decade]

 

[Art Decade]

Mom of 19-Year-Old ‘Titan’ Victim Says She Gave Him Her Seat on Sub: ‘He Really Wanted to Go’

The mother of 19-year-old 'Titan' submersible victim Suleman Dawood revealed Sunday that she gave him her seat on the doomed vessel — and that he took a Rubik's Cube with him to solve at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

people.com

 

[Dark Carnival]

 

[GNL]

I feel like maybe these family members shouldn't be doing INTERVIEWS.

 

[Peekaboo]

This whole story is proof that money can't buy you INTELLIGENCE, CLASS or DECORUM.

 

[Finn]

I'm days late to this but have just been reading up on how they died - essentially vaporised in a millisecond with no concept of it happening - and I'm sorry but I think it sounds LOVELY!

It's gone from my idea of hell (slowly suffocating in the most uncomfortable conditions possible with 4 nerds) to something I'd actively welcome on certain days

 

[Marina Salty]

This whole story is proof that money can't buy you INTELLIGENCE, CLASS or DECORUM.

What makes you say this peeka?

 

[Phoenix]

This whole story is proof that money can't buy you INTELLIGENCE, CLASS or DECORUM.

Elegance is learned, my friend

 

[Dark Carnival]

Elegance is learned, my friend

Well I'd love to see some queens TRY

 

[Kratz]

Regardless of the crassness of the trip (and I agree with that), let’s not dehumanise people in their death because of their wealth or their bad decisions (particularly a 19 year old boy who only went to make his dad happy).

 

[octophone]

As I've already said, I feel sorry for the boy. The rest - misadventure.

 

[Art Decade]

 

[Art Decade]

OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation

Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.

www.businessinsider.com

How much will SpaceGate tickets to Venus cost?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Can't decide just how bad a person I am finding it funny that the reaction to the instantaneous deaths of everyone on board was so NON-CHALLANT

Ship footage captures sound of Oceangate's Titan sub imploding

Support ship video shows the wife of Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush hearing the sound of the implosion.

www.bbc.com

(She didn't know it was an implosion and due to comms delays ended up getting a message from the crew after they'd died)

 

[ZenGiraffe]

The ocean MUST FEED!

 

[Dark Carnival]

The ocean MUST FEED!

Om nom nom

 

[jivafox]

 

[Madison]

The widow/mum has an interview out in the Guardian:

My husband and son dived to see the wreck of the Titanic, and never came back – this is what happened at sea

Christine Dawood found herself trapped on the ship, waiting for signs that the Titan submersible carrying her family would surface. She talks in detail for the first time about those harrowing four days

www.theguardian.com

 

[big ron]

The widow/mum has an interview out in the Guardian:

My husband and son dived to see the wreck of the Titanic, and never came back – this is what happened at sea

Christine Dawood found herself trapped on the ship, waiting for signs that the Titan submersible carrying her family would surface. She talks in detail for the first time about those harrowing four days

www.theguardian.com

Fun fact, I sort of know the daughter.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Titan sub: design flaws and company groupthink central to catastrophe, report finds

Canadian officials find structural defects in material used for hull and say firm failed to fully test ‘novel’ design

www.theguardian.com

The report is out! Might give it a gander when I get into bed.