#titan oceangate

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(all rambling below is based off of what I'm aware of currently, and information here might become outdated as more articles are released discussing the details of the missing Titan submersible, please keep that in mind)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

[witty-writer]

Ocean gate when they were explaining the risk and took signature and consent for death-- (rich people be like)**

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[ysabelmystic]

Very excited for this ngl

[a-tian]

I don’t want to find out about world events anymore

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[dumbfilmschoolkid]

While every force available in the world is searching for the 5 people in the oceangate submersible, a boat filled with mostly Syrian and Pakistani refugees sank under still “unknown” circumstances off the coast of Peloponnisos, Greece (with the coast guard present). More than 600 people drowned but guess which of the two is making headlines

[nando161mando]

[prokopetz]

"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."

Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.

"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."

Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–

"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."

Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.

[prideprejudce]

this is probably the best take I’ve heard so far on the debate of people being told that they aren’t having enough ‘compassion’ for billionaires making bad decisions and paying the obvious consequences for it

[civ5crab]

[somelazyassartist]

Dude the missing Titan submarine thing is fucking crazy. I'm really worried but don't know what I'd trigger tag it as so I'm just putting my anxieties about this under the cut so you don't have to see it if you don't want to

Like the more I think about it the more I worry because SURE they've got roughly enough oxygen to last until Friday as a deadline to find them, but also (as far as I know from the articles I've read so far, info could always change) this was slotted to be the only expedition of 2023 because weather conditions were getting really fuckin rough, so who knows if that will cause complications, right? And also the deepest underwater rescue mission on record so far was at roughly 1,575 feet deep- THE TITANIC SITS NEARLY 13,000 FEET DEEP IN THE ATLANTIC, AND THE SUBMARINE WAS ALREADY LIKE 2/3 OF THE WAY DOWN BEFORE THEY LOST CONTACT. So not only do they have to take the time to find everybody in the first place, they have to have the equipment to bring them back up to the surface with them, from thousands upon thousands of feet deeper than any other rescue mission in history! But also!!! They were heading for the Titanic!!!!! The Titanic is already fucking crumbling to dust as we speak!!!! The Captain's Cabin collapsed not long ago!!!! If the Titan hit the Titanic going down that'd be 23,000 pounds of steel slamming into a hull that's been eaten alive at for 111 years, who knows what kind of damage that could do to both the ship and the submersible!!!! What the fuck would they do to get them out if they caused a cave-in there???? Okay I know them actually HITTING the Titanic is not very likely and I am hoping it didn't but like I said above the cut these are just anxieties and worries I'm aware that everything will probably be fine but the whole situation terrifies me y'know???

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