Titanic Tourist Submarine Goes Missing

[Walken]

And that, among other reasons, is why I think I'd not lose a game of Scrabble Vs GOTers

I agrey with you their

 

[Paulie]

Makes worse subs than Frank Lampard.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

So everyone was pretty certain that it had gone pop immediately and yet we get calls for the coastguard to do more, days long search and rescue operations, oxygen countdowns etc etc.

That's in waaaay worse taste than any of the jokes on here.

 

[Rich1878]

So everyone was pretty certain that it had gone pop immediately and yet we get calls for the coastguard to do more, days long search and rescue operations, oxygen countdowns etc etc.

That's in waaaay worse taste than any of the jokes on here.

Apparently they knew on Sunday

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Apparently they knew on Sunday

So calling out the Coastguard for not having equipment on hand to do something that's never been attempted was a smokescreen to avoid liability...

Why are billionaires always looking to the states they've hollowed out to get them out of trouble?

 

[The binman chronicles]

So everyone was pretty certain that it had gone pop immediately and yet we get calls for the coastguard to do more, days long search and rescue operations, oxygen countdowns etc etc.

That's in waaaay worse taste than any of the jokes on here.

Creates business for the news industry doesn't it. They've managed to get 5 days out of something that ended before they even started.

 

[Rich1878]

So calling out the Coastguard for not having equipment on hand to do something that's never been attempted was a smokescreen to avoid liability...

Why are billionaires always looking to the states they've hollowed out to get them out of trouble?

Probably right

It's one big mess, and such a sad sad story

 

[Drico]

The whole company sounds like a cowboy outfit. No proper testing or validation, sacking the technical director who raised issues, loose cables fitted around the outside, a bleeding games console controlling it, no back up, no fallback…a submersible coffin…I feel so sorry for the families and nothing but disgust for the company. I assume it’s an American company, and how the hell the US authorities have allowed it to trade and put peoples lives at risk without regulation oversight is beyond me…sorry but having overseen the development of nuclear submarines I just cannot get my head around this amateur shitshow……

Buccaneering capitalism at its finest.

Two quotes from Stockton Rush, the now deceased CEO, sum it all up. About the 1993 U.S. Passenger Vessel Safety Act, he said that it: "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation".

In 2022, he told CBS News: "At some point, safety just is pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything."

Basically, safety gets in the way of me making big bucks.

This is why we need "red tape". Then again, the "customers" on his tin of sardines did actually sign a waiver that, apparently, mentioned death three times on page one...

Buyer beware.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Buccaneering capitalism at its finest.

Two quotes from Stockton Rush, the now deceased CEO, sum it all up. About the 1993 U.S. Passenger Vessel Safety Act, he said that it: "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation".

In 2022, he told CBS News: "At some point, safety just is pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything."

Basically, safety gets in the way of me making big bucks.

This is why we need "red tape".

The whole purpose of building and taking this thing to the Titanic was to demonstrate he could build cheap, disposable subs for the oil and gas industry.

Oh also, mr. Libertarian took a $500,000 ppp (furlough) loan from the government.

 

[Prevenger17]

In 2022, he told CBS News: "At some point, safety just is pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything."

Seen that quote quite a few times now and it makes less and less sense with each read. There's definitely a safe middle ground between not getting out of bed and signing a death waiver while hopping in to a cheaply made submarine

 

[Moomin]

Seen that quote quite a few times now and it makes less and less sense with each read. There's definitely a safe middle ground between not getting out of bed and signing a death waiver while hopping in to a cheaply made submarine

That Explorers Club was kicking off about the coast guard not being ready and prepared.

The President was fuming.

 

[Billy Dean]

19-year-old Titan passenger was ‘terrified’ before trip, his aunt says

Azmeh Dawood, the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, said her nephew was reluctant to go on the Titan expedition.

www.nbcnews.com

Poor kid

 

[larrygobfiend]

19-year-old Titan passenger was ‘terrified’ before trip, his aunt says

Azmeh Dawood, the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, said her nephew was reluctant to go on the Titan expedition.

www.nbcnews.com

Poor kid

Yep, this is the real tragedy in all of this.

 

[moggeridge]

19-year-old Titan passenger was ‘terrified’ before trip, his aunt says

Azmeh Dawood, the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, said her nephew was reluctant to go on the Titan expedition.

www.nbcnews.com

Poor kid

I wonder if his dad guilted him into doing it, with the amount of money he spent on the trip

 

[Prevenger17]

Yep, this is the real tragedy in all of this.

*Ahem* Now Larry...

Arsed.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Sorry for not crying over a billionaire who made his money through sweatshops.

Was there a thread for the migrant boat that went down last week?

They literally signed wavers and you’re getting all het up about it.

I find it really weird that people care about a bunch of privileged idiots who knew the risks.

THEY SIGNED WAVERS

How can you expect me to be arsed?

There enough actual tragic stuff happening a lot closer to home.