this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
70 points (100.0% liked)
World News
22056 readers
36 users here now
Breaking news from around the world.
News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
For US News, see the US News community.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
hasn't this guy gone to the deep sea in a sub all by himself? wild
Cameron did it in a sub that was tested and certified. The Titan sub was not actually tested or certified, because that would have been expensive.
Hell, Titan's view port was only rated for 1300 meters, not the 4000 meters of the Titanic wreck.
Hey - it's only 1.7 miles short, it just sounds bad when you put it in meters
/s
That's justification for a negligence claim. Staying that your sub meets or exceeds a standard and knowing the view port wasn't certified to those depths is the very definition of negligence. And then knowing the vessel was only a single use and using multiple times seems like a really good claim on manslaughter. Rush is lucky he's dead.
oof, guess it shouldn't be surprising that they went missing...
Yeah, that's how he found all the Na'vi actors for Avatar!
He's pretty involved in the deep sea submersible community by all accounts, supposedly he's dived to the Titanic site 33 times and been involved in the design of some of the vessels used.
Cameron made a documentary about his sub called "Deep Sea Challenge" that's pretty enjoyable. It's available for free on Pluto TV, for those able to VPN into the USA.
Cameron's sub wasn't officially certified, but it was extremely well tested and he's been clear that he never would have let anyone else use it without certifying it first.