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… 🤦🏻♂️
Holy shit I heard about this incident but I didn't look into how rinky-dink the sub was until now. I would not get in that thing and shut the door on dry land. Hopefully it folded and crushed everyone inside instantly because slowly drowning in that tin can while 4 other people claw at you for their last breath of air is a fate I would not wish on anyone.
I'd trust the lego submarine guy on youtube way ahead of this thing.
They're not even using a good brand name game controller, it's some shit logitech thing that could fuck off any moment. I wouldn't trust that thing in a super mario speedrun let alone life and death. EDIT: hooooly fuck it was wireless too. Imagine drowning to death because of some blue tooth bullshittery.
That's one of the best parts. The door can only be opened/closed from the outside.
Seriously.
It's so crazy to think these guys could be on the surface right now, having drifted off course in the night from heavy seas, or whatever, and they're still as good as dead because they can't open the door unless someone does it for them.