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TITANIC SUB SEARCH | USCG concludes missing Titan sub met 'catastrophic implosion' (www.youtube.com)
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The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the discovery of debris from the sub, and that the five people aboard are believed to be dead.

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (16 children)

The silver lining here is that the world has gained an extremely compelling argument for regulations.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure how much you can regulate a company that fires the people telling them it's an unsafe design.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Not to be callous, but why? We have four people here who willingly signed up for this knowing what the potential consequences could be and one who just threw caution to the wind as far as safety was concerned. I am sure more people have died on the roads while I was typing this. Besides, they were in international waters where according to all the news stories I read nothing you could pass would apply. I feel like this should just be a cautionary tale for others and thats as far as it needs to go. Oh, and let what's left of the company pay back the people who went out searching, assuming there are any funds left. I mean they obviously spent money on nothing but the best equipment.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I don't know what the right level of risk is, but I do agree that if you're engaging in extreme tourism, you have to understand that there's going to be a level of risk associated with it. You want to visit Antarctica, you're going to inevitably be exposed to more risk than if you visit the park down the road. Same thing with space travel. Same thing with deep undersea stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    This wasn't a normal submarine, though. It was a plastic death tube that was totally uncertified and bound to fail eventually.

    You could argue buy beware, but you could argue this is negligent and the tourists should be protected from their own stupidity too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    It was a plastic death tube that was totally uncertified and bound to fail eventually.

    Sure, and if it's in your own personal risk tolerance, you should be well within your rights to do so.

    The kind of reactionary hand wringing on this issue is telling about how conservative the world has become.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Risk conservative, maybe. Political conservatism is usually gung-ho about this sort of thing.

    I see the logic of that, but then again people can be real idiots when it comes to things they haven't been trained about (ask anyone that interacts with the general public for work). I also see the logic in things like mandating seatbelts. Especially if you have a situation where medical treatment will be provided at great public expense for the outcome of whatever stupid decision.

    Before someone gets mad at me, I have no actual opinion here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I think it becomes a question of what well back up and 'insure' as a society. Because we're willing to back people up and insure against the risk of driving in a vehicle, we require certain safety standards, levels of training, etc.

    I think people should and need to be able to make all the stupidest decisions they can possibly make. I also don't think it's society's role to absorb that risk. I don't think a major search and rescue operation should have been undertaken for people doing something that was incredibly risky and dangerous. It's an edge that should stay sharp, and have real consequences. But I also strongly believe we shouldn't be regulating people's behavior to not also take that risk. That's their business and the whole point of living in a liberal society. As a society we get to decide which corners to pad and which edges to soften. I'd like to see us padding the corners and reduce the risk for an immigrants voyage on an over packed boat to try and better themselt rather than some dipshit billionaires obviously stupid hobby.

    I think both of them having the right to take that risk is a fundamental human right. But we as a society get to decide which risks well offer some cushion to.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    If this was international waters maybe there are no regulations.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The company is registered in the US. US law can therefore apply. In fact USA claims jurisdiction where it's very shady to do so (for example just for payments made in USD)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's what needs to change. If there was enough support internationally, the UN could facilitate a treaty being signed between nations with uniform regulations on submersibles. Then it wouldn't matter if it was international waters.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    a completely silly use of literally everyone's time and money, as was the search.

    If billionaires want to do life threatening tourism, then let them, but there should be no accommodations for the consequences.

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    • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The estate of the billionaire and the multi millionaire should have to pay for a significant part of the search and rescue costs. The company should be liquidated for that as well.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Most likely scenario was always this one. Quite possibly around the time that they lost contact, was also the time of the implosion.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yup, that’s what I’ve been saying since the beginning too. It’s kinda good news that they met a probably very fast death, instead of the slow suffocation people were talking about.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Would certainly be much better to go super fast with as little time to freak out. Rather than to be sitting in the dark trying to not wast air on panic attacks while waiting to even be found (let alone rescued). Would suck to know you were found, but then run out of air before you could reach the surface. Though I am glad that they didn't also implode into the actual wreak. Still super close.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Why did they go with carbon fiber anyway? It's light, but in a leisure submarine like that you could always just add more buoyancy if the thing gets heavy. Is this a case of an aerospace engineer thinking "everything looks like a nail"? It's poetic he was on it when the composite did the composite thing and became plastic again if so.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    At the depth they were at - would they die from the pressure before drowning?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Lol. The thing would have imploded near the speed of sound. They were the compressed version of pink mist and wouldn't have even perceived it coming.

    That being said, if not applied catastrophically the human body is incompressible and can withstand any level of ambient pressure we've managed to put it in alive. Dives are limited by all possible breathing gasses becoming narcotic or otherwise toxic at high enough pressures, instead.

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