wilderthanmild posted:

Pretty sure these trips cost in the 6 figure range. I don't have a ton of sympathy for people that rich.

However they are possibly going to die in one of the more mentally terrible ways. In the dark, slowly running out of oxygen with no chance of escape. It's only slightly better than being buried alive in a casket.

Nooner posted:

I would prefer not to die trapped in a tiny sub and running out of oxygen

CuwiKhons posted:

There's no way there's a significant amount of food or, more importantly, fresh water in that sub. Even accounting for now having fewer people to share it with, it's still not pretty.

Wee posted:

https://twitter.com/burgerkrang/status/1671159594155126784

stealie72 posted:

Mind you, the pressure differential in that was 9 atmospheres and went from 9 to 1. This thing has a potential 400 atmosphere difference and would be going from 1-ish to 400-ish. At that compression ratio, for a very brief moment, the air bubble will be heated to 2474.3 degrees Fahrenheit, so they would very, very briefly be on fire while also being crushed. Good times, really.

verbal enema posted:

How much does it take to build like a modern military sub? 20 million or some poo poo? Why do they not just base a design on those? I know ultra modern military poo poo you cannot get specs for but cant you base it on some older ones that didnt gently caress up or suck and at a minimum was just a big coffin at the worst

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Imagine being trapped in a sub with Gaben

Bobcats posted:

Underwater deaths are scary to think about and this is a really uncool way to go.

Sourdough Sam posted:

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

https://twitter.com/Pogue/status/1670835763536183297

lmao

Vim Fuego posted:

the gently caress

raggedphoto posted:

I am shocked they didn't use a glass-break sensor from SimpliSafe, seems more in line with the build.

Death By SnuSnu posted:

Groversub posted:

The vast majority of marine (and aviation) accidents are a result of operator error, not mechanical failure.

Nenonen posted:

loose nips sink subs

quote:

David Marquet, a retired US Navy captain, says he admires OceanGate’s innovative spirit but wonders if they went "a little too far".

smellmycheese posted:

Lmao. No poo poo?

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1671570186753671191?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg

Odonata posted:

It's gonna be neat if that washes up on some random beach in a few years and someone finds a capsule full of billionaire mummies.

Boat Stuck posted:

How many layers of irony is this?


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/wendy-stockton-rush-titanic-missing-submersible.html


June 21, 2023, 5:56 p.m. ET

Anushka Patil

The submersible pilot’s spouse is descended from a famous couple who died on the Titanic.


Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive who was piloting the submersible that disappeared Sunday during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, is a descendant of two first-class passengers who died when the ocean liner sank in 1912, archival records show.

Ms. Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people aboard the Titanic for its first voyage. Mr. Straus, born in 1845, was a co-owner of Macy’s department store.

Ms. Rush, born Wendy Hollings Weil, married Stockton Rush in 1986, according to a New York Times wedding announcement. Her LinkedIn page says that she has participated in three OceanGate expeditions to the Titanic wreckage in the last two years; that she serves as the company’s communications director; and that she is a longtime board member of the company’s charitable foundation.

Ms. Rush could not immediately be reached for comment for this item.

That DICK! posted:

Just keeding. They’re goo

Further Reading posted:

Explaining why he has an N-word pass.

naem posted:

Pope Corky the IX posted:

What kind of rhythms are we talking about here?

Grey Cat posted:

But the video and tweet rant over "Nwords" was good?

Grey Cat posted:

They said the failson was great at twitter, and that's exactly what he did on twitter last night before either being banned or deleting his twitter.

Windows 98 posted:

have they considered a remote submersible that would not obliterate them?

skooma512 posted:

Can crabs survive at that depth?