Escape Goat posted:

We're going to need another wreckage discovery sub

Shinjobi posted:

my wife and I got a print out submariner "license" because we got in some touristy mini sub in Cozumel, Mexico.


I will use these qualifications to answer any and all questions the thread may have

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

Why aren't you saving them right now?

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

They died because of stick drift

R.L. Stine posted:

i always wanted one of those when i saw ads for it. anyway the sub was smuggling drugs to the titanic

Wee posted:

ruddiger posted:

Just remembered James Cameron missed 9/11 because he was having lunch in his submarine on the deck of the titanic

sitchensis posted:

Somehow I feel the phrase “move fast and break things” should not be applicable to the field of manned submarines.

Noise Complaint posted:

walking past dozens of red flags to get bolted into groversub trusting it will hold up to 6000 psi of water

edit: lol this thing didnt even have an emergency beacon and they navigated via text messages

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

First GamerGate and now OceanGate

R.L. Stine posted:

in 30 years they will send down an unmanned probe to recover the billionaire gold

hellotoothpaste posted:

Headline: Rich people submarine lost to interference between keyboard/gamepad non-Bluetooth Logitech Universal wireless dongles and Windows Vista support end-of-life.

How much do I want to bet that Starlink wasn’t used for critical comms, it was to stream your fav Spotify playlists via the 2.1 speakers.

Wee posted:

Costco Thomas Andrews

Three Olives posted:

Which, can we speak about this?



You are adding more leverage to an already lovely control point, why? The detection is already poo poo for the given degree of motion and you are adding more?

Ralph Crammed In posted:

I visualized a car battery from Walmart. And then I thought "no, surely they have some kind of specialized undersea battery" but it's probably a car battery from Ali Express.

hellotoothpaste posted:

loving XInput on a 2.5mi deep submersible, that I didn’t trust with NES emulators over a decade ago enough to build an Arduino interface instead.

Three Olives posted:

I am genuinely trying to understand why these people were doing this...

The window is clearly useless given they located it in front of the piss and poo poo storage pot, the wreckage is already extensively documented, at best they are viewing the wreckage on some small, Best Buy on-sale medium quality displays...

They were paying to be in proximity to where a bunch of people died horribly over a century ago until it sunk to the sea floor?

Why?

Rascar Capac posted:

Funny you should say that, here's Simpsons writer Mike Reiss taking a selfie with the prow of the Titanic.

Photo courtesy of the What Was The Lowest Point of the Simpsons? thread.

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

With the kind of ridiculous money this billionaire had he could have gotten an ROV to dive down there and set up some VR experience with all kinds of bells and whistles, like let people go diving in a pool and pretend they’re swimming around the wreck itself. All that tech exists, all the people who could make sure it happens safely exist. But nope, people think all that money makes them immune to consequences like danger and death.

By popular demand posted:

I got the impression that they failed the 4k and then decided that certification is for losers let's go 6k!

GD_American posted:

holy poo poo the details

Delthalaz posted:

Anyone have that quote on hand where the creator of the death tube said he was inspired by Space x and that used the word innovation 30 times to explain why he didn’t need any safety oversight ?

Wee posted:

From The Daily Mail

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

hahahaha because poop truly gibbis humor at its best 55555

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1670939684636348419

Why even steal such an unremarkable tweet?

Three Olives posted:

Seriously though,

No billionaire deserves to die like a destitute Pakistani laborer in the U.A.E.

biznatchio posted:

Whoever's taking a poo poo at the time gets a 5,800 PSI powerwashing of their face.

SilvergunSuperman posted:

I'd be cool with sealing up anyone in a death sub that uses the term figgies

ComfyPants posted:

Billionaires learn one weird trick for getting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

I guess not all billionaires get a bail out.

Jestery posted:

From what I understand the banging is a "failsafe" that automatically goes off and makes the kind of noise that can be zeroed in on so the sub can be rescued

This should not be taken as evidence that

A. The sub is in one piece
B. The passengers are alive
C. The thumper is even attached to the sub

It is just a timer and a maracca, that's it

Also, y'all need to think about what pressure is and how it works,

Omnikin posted:

Controller died in the middle of a boss fight deep sea exploration, we’ve all been there

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

They're handles with built in LED strips designed for RVs.


He says in this interview that he bought them at Camper World: