Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
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Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
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No talk of passengers, so at the very least one person is missing, but up to 5. Also they have no other submersible that can reach that depth. From an insurance stance, that sounds like a massive liability risk to undertake, not to mention it’s just unwise.
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So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there's a post suggesting that a group of explorers were apparently on board based on one of them's Facebook feed, so it's safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.
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Really a stretch to call these people 'explorers'. Apparently one of them made their billions hawking private jets. Sucks to be him...
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The BBC live stream said “one pilot and four mission operators” about 15 min ago.
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Which means they gross $750,000 per 8 hour trip. They should have a recovery vessel at those prices.
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Daily Mail says the CEO of the OceanGate company is one of the people aboard.
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Those are some dead rich folks
edit: you'd have to be suicidal to ride in this thing, look at this vid
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In one article from last year, the reporter said that someone has mortgaged their house to go on the trip. It's not even rich folks. It's fucking idiots.
Still a horrible death, being trapped in a can with no way out.
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Well, I expected a bit more than an oversized soda can controlled by a knock-off Playstation controller when I heard "sub that can reach the Titanic".
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"All of these submersibles have been kind of janky," Pogue said.
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Just listened a podcast about the deepest ever submarine rescue. It's pretty much all hands on deck worldwide when a submarine goes missing. Atleast then it was. There aren't many rescue vessels that can go that deep.
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This sounds interesting - what's the podcast?
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I need them to find the submersible for my own mental sake. The list of phobias that this is checking off is too much. Claustrophobia, thalassophobia, mazeophobia..
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We need c/nottheonion for stuff like this...
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BBC's also got a live feed going for this.
Apparently, the sub's supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.
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He's gotta wait for one of his real users to post it to twitter
You can’t call a bot a pedo?
I mean, I thought the thumbnail was a Fleshlight.