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Crew of Titan sub believed to be dead after 'catastrophic implosion' (www.bbc.com)

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The US Coast Guard is giving a press conference following discovery of debris from the sub.

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel sorry for the 19 year old, who was terrified and didn’t want to go but went because it was Father’s Day weekend.

That CEO, though, he got what he earned.

[–] nepenthes@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Reading about the kid was heartbreaking.

This quote is pure hubris: (oh irony)

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh my god I only know a little bit about galvanic corrosion from messing around with aluminum fishing boats. I had no idea this was at play here.

This guy was a fucking moron.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's not wrong, he'll be remembered for the rules he broke. Perhaps the quote wasn't meant as an inspiration, but a warning. MacArthur did lose his job over his rule-breaking.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

That thought occurred to me as well...

Knowing which rules can (or even should) be bent/broken, and which rules absolutely shouldn't be compromised can be difficult but... not in this case. This was easily avoidable.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's tragic.

[–] artisanrox@kbin.social 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh no.

Anyway, there are thousands of refugees getting drowned every day and they don't pay $250K to kill themselves and their kids in a sub made by a guy who thinks safety is stupid.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, relax, dude. This isn't reddit.

[–] artisanrox@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

People are so mad about other people having opinions on billionaires doing stupid things lol

[+] assbutt@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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[–] Technoguyfication@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If anyone deserved to die down there, it's the CEO of the company who was on the sub. There have been multiple accounts of him blatantly disregarding safety regulations, recommendations by engineers, testing data, and they did not have the sub certified by any governing body before the trip. It's possible the passengers had no idea how badly planned the mission was, as it seems like all this information is only coming out just now.

[–] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On the bright side a couple people are up at least a billion bux today..

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I'd also rather an instantaneous crush to a drawn out suffocation.

[–] artisanrox@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can you act like you give a fuck about refugees when you clearly don't give a fuck about these lives?

It's extremely easy when you consider they're overfinanced enough to take a 4000m dive with someone with a 5 dollar koystick and who thinks safety is a stupid concept

[+] assbutt@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] artisanrox@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like, you think this is about money....it's not. It's about the utter cancerous abuse of money, the dumbassed invincibility you gain when you can essentially not care about safety for ANYONE, even yourself, and you pay a moron to potentially kill you.

Also, if this country is going to tell regular people not to eat avocados and literally SKIP MEALS to save money, then the top incone class should be reminded through things like this to keep their egos in their pants and do something more constructive with their money than buy pixelspace platforms and kill themselves in the ocean.

[–] cynetri@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

It's not about the money itself, it's about the power said money (and control of the company) brings. That CEO's bad attitude toward safety means it's WAY better that he suffered the consequences first, tragically taking a few others with him, than for him to have taken many others' lives and continue to live a luxurious life with blood on his hands.

[–] crazyminner@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every billionaire deserves death... When there are people out there suffering and you somehow accrued more than a Billion dollars(By exploiting those very people), that is extremely morally wrong.

The more that die the better. The ocean has done more for humanity in the last 6 months than humanity has done for itself in the last 6 years.

[–] assbutt@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, Hitler had a lot of justifications for slaughtering Jews too.

How can you be so blind? It doesn’t matter what banner you claim, if you pursue your ideals through death and violence, you are not the good guy.

[–] jocose@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mythbusters - Diving Suit Decompression (NSFW - gore)
Now imagine this, but deeper down, where the water pressure is even higher

Edit: Mythbusters - Tanker Implosion (SFW)

Another good video for perspective. The pressure the sub was going under was 519x GREATER than the pressure difference in this video

[–] ADHDGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Video #1 looks like an awful way to go - I thought I'd read somewhere that it would be somewhat instant and the meat man suit looked far longer than instant.

[–] jocose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This was a controlled depressurization (they used a release valve and let the pressure creep in). This shows what the pressure can do over time. Now image that be happening instant because the structure holding back the pressure failed all at once.

[–] nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Well yeah, the entire implosion takes a little longer than an instant; but the death itself would be fractions of a second. The "body" in that suit was dead long before the blood started falling out its head.

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