These guys are dead dead.
paying a quarter million dollars to get crushed to death with 4 other dumb broads in a sewer pipe. next time just go to saint tropez
$250,000
takes 12 hours
it's about the size of a king-size bed
no windows
you take turns looking out of a 10" porthole at the faint outline of the shipwreck
if they can find it
sometimes they can't find it
Even if everything did go right and this didn’t sink the idea that anyone would pay $250k to spend TWELVE HOURS IN THIS THING with four other people is fucking insane. I am not claustrophobic at all and this is fully nuts.
Rich people doesn't know how to spend their money in a sensible way. Taking away their hoarded wealth is the compassionate and humane thing to do.
Literally just paying exorbitant amounts of money to just feel something after decades of overstimulation because no one told you no, leading to your own death
Imagine being a billionaire and cheaping out on a fking submarine
I would have gotten the sub from subnautica if i had that amount of money
I remember John Carmack's abortive suborbital program was basically a chair strapped to a modernised (somewhat impressively so) and massively uprated lunar lander
If I had billionaire money you can bet your ass I'd be recreating both subs and the cute lil' seaglide from that game. Fuck it, give me an underwater habitat too
I’d get in for five mins while it’s on the surface and get out. No way am I getting locked in for 12 hrs to go 4km deep in the ocean.
Submarine design kind of makes me think of the game 'Iron Lung', where you are a prisoner in a really shitty sub that has been welded shut
Except this manages to look shittier then that
At least the submarine in Iron Lung has actual physical mechanical controls vs a bluetooth logitech controller
Alice from Trash Future & WTYP did a thread on twitter collecting some of the most funny/insane details about the sub, and here's some of the highlights:
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CBS journalist David Pogue said that the sub got lost for about 5 hours while he was visiting (Pogue was on the mothership at the time), which was due to the fact that the sub doesn't have any sort of radio/GPS beacon on it to help locate it.
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OceanGate wrote an entire blog post about why their sub doesn't need to be safety certified, which you can read here.
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The ballast is in the form of metal pipes resting on a shelf, and in order to release it, everybody on the sub has to move to one side of the vessel in order to lean it over enough for the pipes to simply fall off.
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When asked whether they're making any money off of this, the CEO said "Ahhh, no. So not yet. People might say 'Hey, that's a lot of money, $250,000.' But we went through over a million dollars of gas."
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The CEO of the company that manufactured the hull of the sub would (up until 2016) give a $1000 bonus to any employee that got married while working for him, which violated a state law prohibiting discrimination based on marriage status, and would also reject any job applicants if he though they were Muslim.
The second paragraph of that safety blog post falls for the classic blunder of "This thing that is highly regulated might seem dangerous but is rarely an issue, so clearly it doesn't need to be regulated". Uhh, buddy, did you ever consider why it's not usually an issue??? Maybe something to do with strict safety regulations???
The part where they attribute most accidents to operator error is also great. Especially when contrasted with the fact that they're controlling the whole thing with 2 touch screens and a wireless Logitech game controller from 2005 that they can just pass around to whoever and give them full control of the sub at any given moment.
How many Xboxes is this disaster going to cost? I think this will be the costliest disaster they have covered since a billionaire is on board.
The ballast is in the form of metal pipes resting on a shelf, and in order to release it, everybody on the sub has to move to one side of the vessel in order to lean it over enough for the pipes to simply fall off.
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Until everyone passes out from the O2 system failing and is unconscious and unable to release the ballast.
It would work okay if there was also a failsafe where every 10 minutes you had to press a button to keep the ballast tied down or something.
The CEO of the company that manufactured the hull of the sub would (up until 2016) give a $1000 bonus to any employee that got married while working for him, which violated a state law prohibiting discrimination based on marriage status, and would also reject any job applicants if he though they were Muslim.
Please tell me the CEO was onboard when this engineering abortion went kaput
The CEO of the company running the dives was onboard, but the CEO in the bit you quoted is a different guy who runs the company that made the hull for the submersible.
The company that manufactured the hull (Electroimpact) is different from the one that actually operates the sub (OceanGate), so I'm assuming he wasn't on it unfortunately.
However, OceanGate's billionaire CEO was on the sub along with some British billionare I'd never heard of before all this, so it's at least taking out 2 rich assholes lol.
Wait the CEO was a billionaire too? That means 4/5 on board were billionaires
I haven't read the whole thing yet but did this dumbass ever hear of the FAA?
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I'm not even mad. Wish all rich people do this very awesome and very fun and very good activity to pass time and stick it up to the peasants.
Considering that they're bolted in there from the outside, I'm wondering if they at least have some sort of system to replenish their air supply if they actually make it back to the surface. 'Cause if not, it would be extremely funny if they actually make it back to the surface, but still died due to their air running out before anyone managed to find them.
Yeah, 4 days is a decent amount of time to be rescued (assuming they can make it to the surface), but they also said that this dive is probably going to be the only one of its kind for the entire year due to bad weather in the region, and that they started this dive during a gap in bad weather. So depending on how the weather is in the next few days, if they don't find them soon then they honestly might never find them, even if then can both make it back to the surface and replenish their air supply while there.
I would not want to be part of a search & rescue effort braving a North Atlantic storm just to try a find 5 dumbasses who payed $250K to lock themselves inside a carbon fiber tube for 12 hours lol.
The chances of them getting found aren't great even in good weather, the ocean is fucking huge and from above you're looking for a tiny speck on the water.
I grew up within eyeshot of the north Atlantic. It's a scary body of water. Anyone who's out on the open ocean for recreation is a maniac.
There is no way this thing is coming back to the surface with anyone alive. I doubt this company has a rescue plan. Between the ocean currents and the wide open space, if this thing is found, and that's a big if, the people inside were crushed before anyone could have found this thing. It took 8 months to find EL Faro and this thing is the size of a minivan. The people who paid to go down paid a lot of money to be buried at sea alive.
Either crushed into fine red paste OR going through the worst case of asphyxiation possible.
Sounded so proud of it too. "Takes no skill". Sure, if you wanted an overly designed coffin, it really doesn't take much skill.
Oh my god this is straight up beyond parody. How did this thing ever even make one successful voyage?
A controller so old that it's incompatible with windows 7
Dear Daily Wire,
You've shilled hard AF for the cause. Here's some all expenses paid trip to the Titian.
In the West, authorities have to create elaborate Rube Goldberg-style scams with CIA cutouts literally called “OceanGate” in order to curtail a single billionaire
We The People thank OceanGate for its incredible dedication to the cause of killing billionaires in the most painful, torturous way possible.
That sub would have returned if it was captained by James Cameron.
Just a sewer pipe with a window and the cheapest Xbox controller they could find at GameStop that morning lmao
Yeah you could actually walk around the Iron Lung. And it actually withstood the pressure of the blood ocean quite well all things considered.
