#Oceangate titan

[evangelifloss]

[toaarcan]

Oceangate 2.0 isn't going to happen

Alright, so the announcement that another billionaire is going to make a submarine trip to the Titanic wreck in the wake of the Oceangate fuckup has gotten a bunch of people eagerly chomping at the bit for more rich people to get scrunched into goo at the bottom of the Atlantic, and I'm going to have to be the party-pooper here because it's not happening.

The Titan was a uniquely shitty vehicle made by a man who decided he was smarter than the entire submarine industry and then discovered very harshly that he was not.

But one of the key factors in that sentence is that he thought he was being smarter than everybody else that makes submarines, because everyone else that makes submarines follows all the rules he broke and make vehicles that don't implode.

Titan deliberately threw away decades upon decades of submarine design and then became an object lesson in why submarines are designed the way they are.

Larry Connor is not making the same mistakes as Stockton Rush. He's not making his own shitty bean tin, and even if he did, he would have to be enormously stupid to make the same mistakes that Rush did with the design.

Connor's vessel is made by Triton Submarines, the company that designed and built the DSV Limiting Factor, the submarine that reached the deepest point of all five oceans. He's in the safest possible hands.

There's not going to be any billionaire soup this time.

[monstrousliarstold]

Oceangate Titan

[somelazyassartist]

Also: absolutely fuck everyone who's saying the people in the Titan submarine deserve to be missing down there because "they wasted their money on something so dangerous and stupid". This is the same shit that pissed me off with the James Cameron movie giving the public the misconception that the passengers on the Titanic were all horrible rich people who deserved to die (and straight-up openly and admittedly vilified REAL HUMAN BEINGS WHO PASSED AWAY TRAGICALLY for the sake of telling a story about fictional characters that did not exist and did not live through a real horrific event).

(all rambling below is based off of what I'm aware of currently, and information here might become outdated as more articles are released discussing the details of the missing Titan submersible, please keep that in mind)

This OceanGate Expedition isn't even confirmed yet to have had civilians on it or not, it's only been rumored to. As far as we know everybody on that ship is a researcher just doing their fucking job like any of the OceanGate researchers on land right now. At the moment there's absolutely no proof that anybody "wasted their riches" on this trip. Not to mention that, as far as I'm aware from what I've read, the entire reason OceanGate decided they needed to accept civilian guests on their trips is because they literally could not get the funding to keep researching Titanic otherwise. The Titanic is most likely going to be fully eroded by 2030 at current estimate. We only have a little bit of time left to document its resting place, and that's exactly what they're trying to do. As far as I'm aware the trips with civilians would have ZERO physical contact with the ship and would not be taking any artifacts from its resting place, it's just for scientifically documenting what is left of it now and monitoring the rate of future decay, before it's gone forever and looks no different from the rest of the debris on the sea floor. If I hear one more person, with the limited info we have available at the moment, say these people deserve to suffocate at the bottom of the Atlantic for the fucking "crime" of doing their JOB, you're immediately getting blocked and I do not care. More information will be coming soon but there is absolutely zero proof at the time of me writing this that ANYBODY deserves to be trapped down there.

[kid-az]

Worth the quarter of a million!

[haystarlight]

Hey guys, if the people in the submarine die, who gets the money? Do they have children or wills or....?

[creativelyabsentminded]

✨We all live in a crumpled submarine✨

[90smovieolderbrother]

see, $250,000 would be life changing for me and my family. could buy us a new a/c unit. could use it to buy my nephew a new bike (that was medical equipment and not a regular bike) after his was stolen. could help with a lot of things. $250,000 is chump change to these foos. i’m sorry i don’t feel bad. but not really.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

FIJMU NEWS June 20, 2023 by Minnie Van Hondodyssey

After a long and desperate search for the Oceangate Titan submersible lost near the wreckage of the Titanic, 102 year old Kate Stewart admitted today that she in fact had the vessel hidden all along. Having made that admission, she threw it back into the ocean and promptly died, or was asleep depending on how you read things.

This oddly mirrors the plot of James Cameron's film "The Abyss." Cameron also notoriously explored the ocean in his own submersible vessel, but he splurged on an Alienware controller to manage the vessel, and didn't get his rich friends killed like he would have with a generic X-Box controller.

Being alive, perhaps he can explain why not a single store here has Avatar 2 on 3D Blu Ray. It was supposed to be out today. WTF.

[cyarsk5230]

And we’ll keep doing it until the rich pay their taxes

[torillatavataan]

The Hydraulic Press Channel demonstrates what a catastrophic implosion does to a carbon fibre submarine.

[syn0vial]

out of curiosity...

[thevoiceinyourheadx]

WHY

DEAR GOD WHY

[citruscloudsandmoon]

2023 seems like an year of death for Pakistanis.

[illusionarywitness]

HIS NAME WAS RICHARD STOCKTON RUSH III????

[ferdifz]

Thoughts on the missing OceanGate Titan submersible

So much "eat the rich" energy surrounding the social media comments around this story...

Meanwhile explorer Paul Henry Nargeolet is not a billionaire.

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IwriteOK on Twitter:

folks complaining that the government or whoever isn't doing enough to rescue the deathsub may not realize that rescuing human beings submerged anywhere near the depth this thing was supposed to be at would be harder than putting a man on the moon

Not quite harder than putting a man on the moon, but hard enough still.

...as in: Each single trip to the moon requires months — if not a whole year or more — of preparation. This rescue needs to be done within the next like 48 hour or so, or not at all.

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And how goes the Ukrainian counter-offensive? How goes the Myanmar coup-detat? How goes the Iranian women's-rights rebellion?

All things that continue to cost very real human lives.

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Hope this one Tumblr post will be enough to sate my hunger to commentate. And then I can let go of commenting on this issue anymore going forward.

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Update, about an hour after original post: US Coast Guard says 'underwater noises' have been detected in search for missing Titanic-tour submarine.

🐦 [Spectator Index] [AFP News-Agency] [the Associated Press]

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Update, a few more hours later: Although yeah to be fair (via Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter) :

My god—Oceangate, operator of missing submarine exploring the Titanic wreckage, had a viewport (window) certified only to 1300 meters, as whistleblower complained in a lawsuit, but was fired. So what’s the Titanic wreckage depth? ➡️4000 meters. 🔥

Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To (The New Republic, June 20, 2023)

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Update, June 23rd:  "Tail cone of Titan sub found" - US Coast Guard press conference - via BBC News live update web-page

June 24th: Canadian and US officials have indicated there will be investigations into the Titan deaths. Other government agencies are may join in, but it is unclear at this stage which agency will lead the investigation.

June 28th: Pieces of derbris confirmed to be former OceanGate Titan submersible recovered; suspected human remains among the wreckage. (the Guardian)