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[–] kek_w_lol@lemmy.one 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The best part is that it's a coffin. Even if they get to the surface, they are still bolted in from the outside. Also it has no flares, no redundancies, no balloon that floats up, absolutely no backups in case anything goes wrong. No reasonable person would look at this and think: "Yep! Perfect excursion for my vacation!"

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can still barely believe it's real. The Titanic is a living monument to the importance of safety regulations, slowly dissolving at the bottom of the ocean because its builders and operators were a little too presumtuous with their risk assessment. With that in mind, why wouldn't you name your rickety deathtrap of a submarine "Titan" of all fucking things, plot a course to the wreckage, and proceed with a similarly cavalier attitude towards safety and a considerable lack of contingency planning? It's like they wanted to see exactly how much temptation fate was capable of resisting.

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Some jokes really write themselve

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And they don’t even see the titanic with their eyes ! Its through a screen

[–] dgendreau@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

They could have easily sent a robot down and watched from the support vessel and gotten a better experience with cameras and big 4k screens with no risk.

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

It's literally the iron lung

[–] kek_w_lol@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

Holy shit. That somehow makes it much worse

[–] sparky@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 years ago

what, for real? I thought it had a porthole or something

[–] earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

No, the craziest part is how staunchly anti safety regulation the company’s founder was. Per NPR:

The Titan, the small submersible operated by a Washington state-based company called OceanGate, gives tours primarily in international waters, which means the experimental vessel avoided most U.S. safety rules.

In a 2019 interview with Smithsonian magazine, OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush — currently missing aboard the Titan — complained about government rules.

"There hasn't been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years. It's obscenely safe, because they have all these regulations," Rush told the magazine. "But it also hasn't innovated or grown — because they have all these regulations."

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

...and pay some hundert thousands dallons to get a traumatizing, claustrophobic experience

[–] scrof@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Jesus... Not exactly seaworthy is it?