Titanic (official thread)

[Jaxbuck]

The amount of coverage dedicated to this is nuts. If it wasn't billionaires in there, would half as many people even know about it?

It depends on what other class divides could be leveraged for maximum clicks.

 

[5 STAR U-G-A]

Not sure what television is reporting in the US, but what we have seen are interviews with people who did not take places on the trip because they had reservations about the safety of that submarine. Most refuse to say more, but one did say that an observation window had a pressure rating of less than 5,000 feet (IIRC) and that a correctly rated window would have cost four times as much. Another mentioned that there were several systems problems on a testing dive. I continue to think that it is most likely this submarine imploded 1:45 into the dive when communication ceased. I just don't understand what one gains by going to the wreck. After all, there were all of those touring Titanic displays around the world that allowed you to experience what it might have been like walking through the ship. It's very sad, I think.

 

[5 STAR U-G-A]

Great Business Opportunity. I'm going build a submarine to take paying voyeurs down to the site of the Titanic submarine wreckage. I'll need to "move fast," "break things" and "disrupt." And I can't be slowed down by any 50 year old Navy experts and their safety protocols.

 

[AKAK]

Sad for the loss of life, although they certainly put themselves at risk. It’s justice that the CEO was on board.

The only part of Titanic I ever really cared to see was Kate Winslet’s boobs.

To the boobie thread!

 

[Abenaki]

It's still stupid, but I honestly feel relieved that it imploded and they didn't have to sit for days. If you're not gonna go peacefully in your sleep, being crushed in microseconds before your brain can even register pain isn't the worst way to go.

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

This is an “incredibly unforgiving environment”, he adds.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I think that's sped up.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

@ORD_Buckeye damnit keep your mouth shut

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

I think that's sped up.

I believe so.

Still, quite a storm of scavengers descending on the fish corpse.

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

 

[Abenaki]

Twitter thread of a pretty damning comparison of the Titan vs. the DCV 1 that James Cameron took to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 2012.

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Drug dealers in nyc are using the ocean gate logo to stamp their packets of heroin.

 

[Mike80]

 

[Captain Buckeye]

This is so wrong... but I chuckled.

 

[Captain Buckeye]

are you saying that Navy Intelligence is in league with the band of Orcas sinking yachts and maybe got them to sink the submersible?[/s]

Ever see Navy intelligence and an Orca in the same room?