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No way I would even let someone close the door on me above sea level.
And I am not even claustrophobic (I think).

The average person farts 14 times a day.

Thats a 29 fart average in the can.

What if someone has the shits?

This is always my first thought when I hear about some daring feat: "But, what if they need to poo?"

https://twitter.com/ActionAviation0/status/1670181561201770500

Hope they find the sub and the folks in it unharmed, but I suspect that thing is at the bottom and they all dead.

That thing relying on a wifi playstation controller scares me, as does the fact it relies on Starlink. No way I'd lock myself in a can going 4km under water with just 2 rechargable AA batteries between me and meeting Mr Jones.

I thought oh yeah Bluetooth, great.
But then its probably normal nowadays to control crazy stuff via computers.
Do fighter jets still have cables to move those things on the wings?

between me and meeting Mr Jones.

Tom?

Some might say his voice is heaven but I don't think he's carked it yet

Such a horrific way to go out if it hasn’t imploded from the pressure. Crammed in there with 5 other people. The billionaire yelling and screaming at the CEO but it’s futile.
With oxygen deprivation do you all go out pretty much at the same time or could one of them be wedged for hours next to four corpses?

ffs some of us want to sleep tonight...

CEO kills the others early on to make the oxygen last longer

Surely the additional oxygen required in the effort to bludgeon/strangle would negate anything gained?

Am I right in thinking it could return to the surface then run out of Oxygen, before being found? i.e. they are locked in?

Worst bit for me was reading it can only be opened from the outside....

Any proper super-villain billionaire will have a semi-automatic harpoon handy.

Which episode of succession are we discussing here?

Probably a requirement in the fine print…

yeah they bolt the front dome on from the outside. No way out.

Seems unlikely that it wouldn't have some sort of beacon (EPIRB?) that would make locating it really easy if it was at the surface and intact.

Who wrote the risk assessment on that particular venture?

I read the headline about a billionaire being missing in a sub controlled via Starlink whilst blocking about the 100th techbro drop-shipping advert of the day on Twitter and was really hopeful for a second.

They should all get the Darwin award. All this just to look out of a little window to get the same view that we all have on our laptops. And they think it makes them 'explorers'.

Probably had a few reds on it....

David Pogue, who went on board, reported that he read a waiver that described the submersible as an "experimental" vessel, "that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death".

I read somewhere else but cannot find it now, that death was mentioned three times in the first page of the waiver.

The Tate brothers have been charged with rape and sexual trafficking. I hope they get life. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65959097