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… 🤦🏻♂️
The “CEO” bragged about how there is only one button onboard (to the journalist who previously went on it) and everything else is touchscreen-operated, with no apparent manual failsafes…
It got lost for two hours, even on that first trip. I see that it has worked out, uhh, swimmingly for them, once again…
I just don't think the taxpayer should be on the hook for any of their shenanigans. If these guys had/have plenty of money, they ought to be paying for this predictable rescue.