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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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reading about the kid was heartbreaking.

This quote is pure hubris: (oh irony)

[-] kestrel7@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Wow, that's tragic.

[-] artisanrox@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

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 50 points 1 year ago

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

[-] artisanrox@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

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

[+] assbutt@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago

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[-] Technoguyfication@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] artisanrox@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] artisanrox@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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 1 year 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 31 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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.

[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] jocose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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.

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