womble wrote:Er no. The titanic is about 4k deep.
Their dodgy homemade sub would have imploded about too 3.9k early
Darwin awards all round.
The only positive is it would have happened fast. They wouldn’t have known what happened to them.
Larry wrote:There are two sides however this guy has progressed technology to the next level. The other issue being pushed on TV by the media is all about the safety of the passengers. I dont agree with them these guys that signed up and paid their $250K were not dumb or ignorant people. Quite the opposite they were in the top 1% of us all. Very smart and I bet did their research and new the risks. The media is banging on about how dare they take passengers on experimental craft what about Astronauts and the private citizens that have paid to go into space same thing in my book. The passengers are passionate about their interests no different to people who climb Everest or even sky dive. Really lots of sports are inherently dangerous how many people scuba dive? s**t can happen down there and if it does you have to be at the top of your game to get out of it if at all.
No1Mk3 wrote:Even a former senior employee questioned the limits of the design, the owner sacked him for it instead of addressing the issues. Profit over Safety = Disaster.
Larry wrote:There are two sides however this guy has progressed technology to the next level. The other issue being pushed on TV by the media is all about the safety of the passengers. I dont agree with them these guys that signed up and paid their $250K were not dumb or ignorant people. Quite the opposite they were in the top 1% of us all. Very smart and I bet did their research and new the risks. The media is banging on about how dare they take passengers on experimental craft what about Astronauts and the private citizens that have paid to go into space same thing in my book. The passengers are passionate about their interests no different to people who climb Everest or even sky dive. Really lots of sports are inherently dangerous how many people scuba dive? s**t can happen down there and if it does you have to be at the top of your game to get out of it if at all.
Larry wrote:Quite the opposite they were in the top 1% of us all. Very smart and I bet did their research and new the risks.
wanneroo wrote:Everything about this mirrors what is happening with general society. The guy running it didn't want "experienced 50 year old white guys" because they are not "inspirational" enough and instead sought out young dumb people based on their gender and how they have sex.
I've seen some experienced submariners comment how much of a joke the construction of this thing was, total incompetence it was. One video I saw was some teenage kid putting the cap on the sub and tightening down the bolts with a little ratchet wrench. Would you trust your life to a kid with a ratchet wrench and some bolts while you are diving down 13000 feet?
womble wrote:Can you just use metric please Wannaroot, thanks mate