Stive Pesley Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 (edited) Good grief - this story is horrific and is making me feel claustrophobic just thinking about it Plus I'm gob-smacked at the details of how ramshackle the craft is. I'd assumed it was a state of the art thing, but it sounds like a pressurised metal box Here's hoping for a happy ending but I'm not feeling confident given the depths they're talking https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941 Edited June 20, 2023 by Stive Pesley ziggyram59 and Comrade 86 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Holy crap. Look at the state of it cstand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Contain Nuts Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 And all for what cause, really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted June 20, 2023 Author Share Posted June 20, 2023 35 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said: Holy crap. Look at the state of it I know right? "We control it with this games console pad" 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 It's terrible for all concerned but when people are spending £250k to go look (possibly, its not guaranteed) at a ship wreck on the ocean floor while nurses are using food banks it tells us just how crazy the world has become. Stive Pesley, Archied, sheeponacid and 6 others 4 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Re-watch of Das Boot anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealhantsram Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 2 hours ago, BaaLocks said: It's terrible for all concerned but when people are spending £250k to go look (possibly, its not guaranteed) at a ship wreck on the ocean floor while nurses are using food banks it tells us just how crazy the world has become. There's a certain irony that 100 years after the Titanic took hundreds of the World's richest men to a watery grave, it appears to have done pretty much the same in 2023. 😢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 The western world rushes to provide aid to a few billionaires on a jolly, yet seems nonplussed when 500+ migrants are locked in a hold a few miles south of Greece. RadioactiveWaste, Alph, EtoileSportiveDeDerby and 6 others 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubbs Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 The more I hear about this sub and the people that made it the more I am convinced something like this was completely inevitable and the more I am absolutely astounded that people decided to spend so much money to do it. Absolute madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 More money than sense getting into that thing. Even if I got into one in Costa Del Sol going 20ft, if I saw a gaming controller from Argos operating it, I'd be out that thing quicker than you can say sub. Stive Pesley and cstand 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 4 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said: The more I hear about this sub and the people that made it the more I am convinced something like this was completely inevitable and the more I am absolutely astounded that people decided to spend so much money to do it. Absolute madness. A combination of if it costs this much it must be safe and money induced invulnerability syndrome. Stive Pesley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 4 hours ago, BaaLocks said: It's terrible for all concerned but when people are spending £250k to go look (possibly, its not guaranteed) at a ship wreck on the ocean floor while nurses are using food banks it tells us just how crazy the world has become. What the hell are you getting for 250k! cstand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 1 minute ago, ariotofmyown said: What the hell are you getting for 250k! You get to see the titanic on a screen or maybe through a window the size of a dinner plate if you can squeeze past the other four people in the sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 1 minute ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said: You get to see the titanic on a screen or maybe through a window the size of a dinner plate if you can squeeze past the other four people in the sub. Actually, now you put it like that. EtoileSportiveDeDerby, Day, RadioactiveWaste and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Just now, ariotofmyown said: Actually, now you put it like that. Bargain right? If you are really unlucky/lucky (depending on how you look at it) you get to share the fate of anyone that didn't make it off the Titanic when it sank. A truly authentic experience. Stive Pesley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 I am in love with the phrase "Needlessly prioritises passenger safety" in the context of regulating submaines for commercial use... <i saw it here: https://mltshp.com/p/1P3MR and I haven't chased the source up> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 As a item of historical importance the story of this ship will carry on . However, the constant pillaging of what would never be allowed on an underwater war grave is repugnant. Only a few years ago people were going down to get married on the deck. They're building a replica with a massive price for a ticket to have fun trips to wear the ship sank. Many years ago an American court gave sole salvage rights to a bloke who runs the BMW dealerships in the States. A ship in international water ???Better known as Titanic Inc. Since then they've put thousands of personal items from diaries to children's shoes into storage outside Paris. You can even have the fabulous fun of getting a boarding pass when you visit their exhibition with a name on . You'll have to wait till the end to see if you survived though. Gross Robert Ballard who discovered the wreck by accident has over the last 15 years offered serious regret he ever mentioned it to anyone. ziggyram59 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archied Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 Madness and why would you take your 19 year old son down there in that thing 🤷🏻♂️, such a sad needless loss of life cstand, Stive Pesley and ziggyram59 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram-Alf Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 7 hours ago, Archied said: Madness and why would you take your 19 year old son down there in that thing 🤷🏻♂️, such a sad needless loss of life For those who died in April 1912...yes, But those down there in a converted bath tub they're not declared dead yet as banging has been detected. If you're a billionaire I guess there comes a time when you want to do something different, Money is the root for all stupid adventures 👍 https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-submarine-missing-live-updates-submersible-cannot-be-opened-from-inside-time-running-out-on-oxygen-supply-waiver-mentions-death-three-times-12905748 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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