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… 🤦🏻♂️
Good way to kill a billionaire without any repercussions. Also a good way to fake your own death as a billionaire.
James Cameron was probably involved.
It’s just so insane, though… Like, I actually cannot believe that anyone was stupid enough to believe the thing would survive, let alone trust their life to it…
Which suggests you may be right. But that’s like… Well, a suicide bomber or something. Because it’s five people in there…
If, as you say, no fakery was involved…
I haven't seen anything on the craft itself. Are you saying it wasn't manufactured by a submersible company that sells these things as its primary business?
Oh, you definitely should look up the apogee (CBS) article on it…
It’s a jerry-rig. Like, pretty much, shiny bells and whistles, and otherwise cheap parts to keep cost down…
So I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but no, this is… DIY rich-man tech, essentially…
I'll look into it. No sarcasm intended. I just assumed that all these science vessels with submersibles bought them from one or two companies that specialized in their construction.
I definitely wouldn't board some asshole's homemade sub and descend to the depths the Titanic is at.