#missing submersible

[theonlydrewboo]

Sad but true.

[spainy-spoon]

This whole submarine situation is a grim reminder that safety features are there for SAFETY rather than inconvenience, and that regulations are often written in blood.

The juxtaposition of the company going from "isn't it great that we built such a cost effective submersible without having to deal with clunky equipment or pesky regulations" to "we regret to inform you that 5 passengers including our CEO are sealed inside a death pod with very little chance of rescue" is absolutely haunting but is an outcome that you could have seen coming from miles away unlike the submersible due to a lack of safety features

[memes-wearhouse]

[im-queer-and-tired]

[bucksangel]

[ivandra-winters]

I’ve seen a few posts concerning the missing submersible (to be clear, it’s definitely not a submarine) that was going to the wreck site of the Titanic talking about how we need to have more empathy for the people in the pod that are most likely dead. And while I want to be empathetic…I just can’t. Because there’s a huge difference between a group of people getting killed in an avoidable tragedy, and a group of people dying as a result of their own goddamn hubris. They had every sign that they would risk dying, every fucking thing about this whole experience pointed to them not coming back. Especially since a reporter did a similar trip last year where they not only scrubbed the mission because it started to go south only 37 feet down, but that same reporter also has said that during that same story, the submersible got lost for 5 hours and they still didn’t put a beacon on it afterwards. The only ones I feel just the slightest amount of sympathy for is the son of Shahzada Dawood, who his father brought on board with him. Because if they do end up dying, then that young man shouldn’t have been brought into this fucking death trap.

[garthnadermemestash]

[extinctioninthemorningrays]

Just came across someone talking abt the lost submersible on another site and all the comments were just so fully sincere about ‘i hope everyone is okay’ ‘god has a plan for us all even if it ends in death 😢🩷’ ‘nobody deserves a fate like that’ and it was a bit of a culture shock bc.

Even if people on here seem kinda split between ‘lmao i hope they die in the rich asshole boat’ and ‘i do hope they’re alright bc i wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy’ we do at least seem to be in agreement that like.

if you get on a makeshift ‘submersible’ that doesn’t meet any safety regulations and sign a waiver that mentions death three times and spend a quarter milion to go disturb the gravesite of thousands of people then that A) means you’re probably an asshole and B) that is a TERRIBLE plan and you do tbh kinda deserve to die a little bc COME ON going through with it after all the warning signs is BEGGING for a darwin award at that point