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Am I the only one who finds this all a bit ‘missing white woman syndrome’? How many other craft go missing over a year that we never hear about* but now it’s a bunch of billionaires on an adventure mission it’s got everyone hooked?

Genuine question, maybe I’m over expecting the sea to be a common place for ships to go missing.

About 1 cargo ship a week from what I recall. Throw in fishing boats, tourist boats, refugee boats I bet there is probably more like one every day. Then throw in the people who are killed or injured in accidents on boats and ships. I bet it’s a pretty big number (yet people are more scared of flying).

Billionaires are on almost none of them though.

It's the novelty of it for the most part and all the elements to make an easy story, billionaire adventure looking for the titanic and the oxygen countdown making it perfect for 24hr news.

The same ships going down everyday just doesn't sell, everyone just tunes it out.

death by lamington vs death by 500kg pressing down on every square centimetre of your body

i know which i'd choose

Chatting about the almost 1200 humans that drowned this year while trying to get to Europe would be way more depressing.

Yep - that coconut stuff is so revolting.

Wonder what the vibe is going to be like when they get to the "the air has now run out" moment.

It is bonkers. They're flying in three C-17 cargo planes and a 747 to bring "supplies for the search". They've got at least 13 boats milling about looking but as far as I can tell, there is no way they are fishing this thing off the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe they are all charging expenses to the billionaires accounts?

Lloyd's of London still has a book in the main hall where they record every lost ship. I've seen it a few years back and the open pages seemed to record 2-3 a week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64818864

Ships going down every day (2000 deaths per year, not counting small boats) isn't news here because the crews are Filipinos, Indonesians and Indians. Allow me to repost this link from 3 pages ago https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/shipping-disasters-we-never-hear-about

Especially when the authorities failed to act before it sink.

Wonder what the vibe is going to be like when they get to the "the air has now run out" moment.

I guess they wait for the first person to pass out, then they kill them so they don't use up more oxygen, then end up killing each other as the remaining ones try to stay awake the longest.

I hope the dead submarine is near the Titanic. This will permit a 2 for 1 deal for future billionaire adventurers who want to gawp at wrecks.

He says the sub didn't need to be certified or tested by any official bodies, because it was classed as Experimental. If it was an Experimental aircraft it would have the same exemption from certification, but it would be illegal to carry paying passengers. Presumably they don't have this rule for submarines yet?

C4 news reporting on another capsize of a migrant boat in the Med, pointing out the absence of a $multimillion rescue operation

C4News is putting the boot into Stockton Rush. Lots of experts are slagging him off. E.g. there are 10 or 11 other subs which can go as deep, and they're all certified apart from this one. The guy is taking advantage of the lack of laws in international waters and just ignoring all safety standards. Presumably his company (which has no nameplate on its door) is registered in the US and can be sued there. But if his policy was to go on every dive, he would never be alive to be sued if something went wrong. I suppose his company will be wound up pretty soon. Who will play him in the movie? I vote for Laurence Fox.

I'm sure they'll be dramatic reports of underwater tomb and hacks hoping that when/if they find it that there's evidence of someone going berserk down there.

But yeah, with all the money on board I'm sure there's plenty being thrown about on the rescue efforts.

maybe submarine dude is a friend of boris. and boris promised him he'd send a rescue party once the whole lying to parliament thing got knocked off the front page.

*johnson laughs evil laugh and rubs hands together in evil manner

cue tales of the unexpected music

Man bites dog, innit.

Hundreds of shitty boats sink each year full of people.

Couple of rich peeps on a freaky super deep submarine thingie... fuck yes!

I’m not an engineer, but I can’t quite understand how the door works. It obviously does as they have taken it down there before, but it looks like it’s just two flat, metal surfaces that are hinged together and then bolted? There’s no type of gasket or bevelled edge that would force a seal?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14f6kpc/a_tour_of_the_submarine_that_disappeared_near/

Fair question. Without a gasket, it's possible to get a seal but the metal surfaces would need to be machined perfectly flat.

Which is difficult to believe is the case, given everything else we're learning.

Could the gasket have been removed during this segment to reduce corrosion?

A hyperbaric medicine expert has confirmed that they would possibly die at varying stages. Up to possibly a week dependant on individual metabolism.
Good night.

Sleep well!

Forever.

A billionaire spending a week suffocating to death, fine by me.