#lost submarine

[neep-neep-neep]

With that much money why couldn't you charter a regular submarine. Get PADI certification. Watch a live feed from one of those underwater robots that have been down there hundreds of times already?? Why did you LARP Iron Lung in 2023. Even down to the "being welded into your thinly veiled underwater coffin with limited equipment". The cheap Logitech controller with the 3d printed joystick caps. I can't. Why did you go *smiling* into the abyss

[aajjks]

[emilysibyl]

Listen there are a lot of things I find funny about the whole lost submarine thing that’s happening right now but probably the funniest is the fact that up until about five minutes ago I thought that when everyone was tagging oceangate they were making a joke like a watergate reference but no the sub is actually named oceangate and honestly that was a scandal waiting to happen what were they thinking??

[irisisblind]

Pov: You paid 250,000 dollars to go look at the titantic

[radcats]

[mayrine]

I find it fucking crazy that some people say that “all people deserve life” as a response to the submarine disaster

Let me tell you a little secret

Rapist, child molestors, groomers and billionaires DONT deserve a life

I can’t believe that some people will argue that they do

First of all if you think that rapists deserve a life please make me a favor and block me because you are a disgusting human being

Secondly, billionaires should not exist. Simple as that

NO HUMAN should have that much money for themself

If they were truly good people they would use the huge amount of resources to HELP those around them, not to go on a trip to see the titanic. When we say eat the rich this is what we mean

The only person that is innocent is all off this is the 19 year old. He is the only one I feel bad for

But the fact that he was there makes me hate the other “adults” even more because who in their right mind would let a kid (who has said that he didn’t want to be there) on a trip like that????

You can’t be anti-capitalism or in the eat the rich crowd if you feel bad for them

Fuck billionaires and fuck people that like/feel bad for them

[post-collapse]

"i don't think we need to be celebrating people's deaths" sure ok, thats fine. I do think though, that it is worth talking about how four of those five people died as a direct result of negligence practiced by the fifth

stockton rush was outspoken about his distaste for safety practices and regulations, because it "stifled innovation" - but what he really meant by that was that it just delayed when OceanGate could begin collecting money on the investment.

text is in alt, from this article

furthermore:

text in alt from this article. sounds like a really fucking reliable born-of-wealth business owner as most of them are

and in the article below, OceanGate made a statement that submitting this dumb fucking submersible to safety testing would take years that they didn't want to wait, and then proceeded to say this utter fucking drivel:

article here

just a guess but i think it stands to reason that a good portion of the reason mechanical failure is low is because of safety classing

this plus everything else that's known about how many concerns were raised and the company and CEO's complete disregard for all of that, in the name of "the spirit of adventure" bolstered by enough money to be able to dump funds into an extreme-tragedy-tourism pet project, paints a picture of someone who is too wrapped up in their own exceptionalism to put a proper value on the lives of others, in my shitty opinion

[esotericfloozy]

i think more billionaires should go on risky tourist trips thousands of feet below sea level, personally