Private enterprise sub, taking people down for “visits” to the wreck site. Costs around $250K each. One of the people on board is a billionaire who also paid to go into space…
The whole thing sounds dodgy as fuck, from the way it was built, to how it operates, to how passengers are literally sealed in from the outside, this meaning that if the stupid thing surfaces, unless the mothership picks them up in time, they still die…
It’s such a comedy of errors, it’s the kind of shit that only the very rich, and the very naïve, could have allowed to happen…
Anyway, fuck knows, I hope they turn up alive and well, but damn… Next time someone proposes an extreme deep sea sub held together with parts from Walmart (quite literally), steered by a video game controller, and which apparently cannot communicate with the outside world while deep-submerged, and wants to charge $250K to go gawk at Titanic, maybe society should think twice..?
I mean, come on… 🤦🏻♂️
Money doesn't buy intelligence it looks like I mean if I wanted to take a sub down I'd want SOME way of internal escape as a last resort, but then I'm happier using drones to see underwater wreaks than go down there as drowning under immense pressure or just slowly suffercating seems the worst way to go
Also how do you lose it in the first place, with all modern tracking gear surely there's tracking devices you can easily attach to it as it wasn't military?
This is one area where I'm perfectly fine with them only using robots for exploration. At least until they start building underwater cities like in SeaQuest DSV.
Nah, 2 birds one stone. I want them to build Atlantis from Stargate that way we can explore both ocean AND space.
You're not going to be able to manually operate an escape hatch until you're on the surface anyway - the inside of the submersible is almost certainly going to be at a lower pressure than the outside so you don't have to worry about giving everyone the bends coming back up.