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For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires' son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).

They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They've been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they'll make it?

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[–] Blue@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Just imagine, these idiots spend 250k to sit in a iron tube controlled by a cheap offbrand playstation controller but won't spend any of their money to improve the world. Only satisfying their own ego and greed. I can't feel sorry for them, best I can do is hope that they imploded so they didn't have to suffer too long.

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[–] evev13@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this the actual sub? It's just a tube, this looks awful.

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[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"currently stuck" is a euphemism - they are dead. They are gone.

[–] quantum_mechanic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (16 children)

No, nor do I think they should be. There will be millions of wasted taxpayer dollars wasted on trying to recover rich people's dead bodies. They signed a waiver and knew what they were getting into. There's nothing to be learned from whatever happened, since the company was clearly negligent. Let them rest on the ocean floor beside the other rich assholes.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's kinda poetic for them to go down next to the titanic, itself a story of complacency and excess/opulance.

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[–] SporkBomber@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least this method of winning the darwin award is going full circle.

'Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12215003/OceanGate-REFUSED-independent-inspection-missing-sub-fired-worker-raised-safety-concerns.html

He hired a guy specifically to work on the safety of the sub and fired him when he raised too many concerns like the viewport not being rated for that depth.

'Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to the experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy ('PVHO') standards.

'OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.

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[–] kabukimeow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't like billionaires but of course I wish for their miracle survival. As unlikely as it seems.

And if they don't make it, I hope it was a quick and painless death for all of them...

[–] sfo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

depends on if its o2 depletion or implosion

the second one is quick and easy. the first one would be tough. imagine dying breath by breath. most people aren't afraid of death, it's the dying part...

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[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Idk sounds pretty bad to me

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they're deep down, it's unlikely. A good outcome would be something failed, but they could get up and are now lost on the surface, but from everything we've read about this it doesn't seem likely either.

[–] janeturner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

that s not good

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

I had hope this morning. It's gone now. If they didn't have a "holy shit we've spotted them!" moment really soon after that, there was no chance of rescue in time before the oxygen was certainly gone.

[–] diggity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think they discovered the crush depth of their sub was a little shallower than they thought it would be, and are all already dead. The search team says they heard a banging sound, but they’re next to a huge old wreck full of old garbage that is a probably the source of a lot of banging sounds.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Best thing they can do is for most of them to go to sleep and conserve oxygen. Good luck sleeping while afraid for your life though.

[–] michaelcharles@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, they've got 9 hours and 20 minutes of oxygen supply left as of this post.

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