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… 🤦🏻♂️
I was suspicious at first, waiting to here the information that this billionaire was some sort of person people with power would have wanted to get rid of, but I didn't see anything of intrigue in my limited research. However, it is entirely possible there was a sealing issue with the pressure, and when the submersible reached that depth, the part simply broke, and poof, everyone is flat as a pancake.
You could argue sabotage, but as of now, it does seem like just a billionaire choosing to spend his money with people that he definitely should not have spent his money with.
The hatch is literally bolted on, just imagine if the bolts weren't torqued down in the proper order, any slight imbalance could easily cause excess pressure on that titanium ring and cause it to crack, causing a total implosion.
Bolts lmao these guys needed to learn a very important lesson.