For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).
They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?
Wow, it’s confirmed. Honestly so grateful they had an immediate and painless death. Imagine sitting in complete darkness for 4 days waiting to suffocate.
“currently stuck” is a euphemism - they are dead. They are gone.
This was posted 2 days ago.
The 5 submariners chances of being rescued are very slim at this point but much much higher than the 500 migrants still missing off the coast of Greece who took to the waters not for a joy ride but to escape war and seek a better life.
I understand, not that their lives don’t matter. It’s just that we don’t pay attention to the ones that really do.
Short answer: no
Long answer: NOOOOOOOOOOO
Do you think the guys on the titanic submarine will be rescued?
A couple billionaires
I hope not.
Well they’re confirmed dead
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Feels like we never left reddit (in all the good ways).
I think the sub imploded hours after they lost connection.
Seems like this was most likely the case.
Yeah if the debris is from the sub itself, I don’t see any other possibility unfortunately.
I think there’s a chance they succumbed to hypothermia long before they ran out of oxygen.
Just imagine, these idiots spend 250k to sit in a iron tube controlled by a cheap offbrand playstation controller but won’t spend any of their money to improve the world. Only satisfying their own ego and greed. I can’t feel sorry for them, best I can do is hope that they imploded so they didn’t have to suffer too long.
I’m not really in the business of defending billionaires but I think at least one of them, the guy who brought his son, was involved with charities:
"He works with his family’s Dawood Foundation, as well as the SETI Institute - a California-based research organisation which searches for extra-terrestrial life.
“Shahzada is also a supporter of two charities founded by King Charles - the British Asian Trust and the Prince’s Trust International.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65955554
He sounds (sounded) like a good person… I do find it interesting that the other billionaires don’t have any mentions of charitable works in articles I’ve read in them.
Every billionaire uses charities.
They’re a way to exert control over the money that would normally go to taxes, and be up to the government to spend.
It’s not inherently bad, but charity is not quite the saving grace of billionaires that many make it out to be.
No, nor do I think they should be. There will be millions of wasted taxpayer dollars wasted on trying to recover rich people’s dead bodies. They signed a waiver and knew what they were getting into. There’s nothing to be learned from whatever happened, since the company was clearly negligent. Let them rest on the ocean floor beside the other rich assholes.
That’s a bit harsh. If there’s anything that works in modern society pretty reliably regardless of status, it’s search and rescue. Sunk subs can also be an environmental hazard.
There is no rescue in this instance, only an expensive recovery. And there are enough environmental hazards in the world at this point, that I don’t think a 5m sub on the sea floor is going to matter much. Most climbers are abandoned to their fate as they made the reckless decision to ascend, just as these people made the reckless decision to descend.
It’s still part of S&R. Lost swimmers, ships, small planes, or just people lost in the woods, there are always attempts for recovery long after any chance of survival is gone.
Yea climbers may be abandoned very high up on Everest, when there’s no safe way to bring them down. But subs, we do look for subs. Let’s not needlessly be dicks about it.
Let’s not needlessly be dicks about it.
You do you. I will be whatever I want about it however.
I agree woth this post. Wealth has nothing to do with this. And if they survive they can easily pay the bill.
Pretty hilarious that you think a billionaire would foot the bill if they are (or their families if they’re not) rescued.
It’s kinda poetic for them to go down next to the titanic, itself a story of complacency and excess/opulance.
I mean, I hope they survive but I’m not holding my breath.
This comment had me gasping.
way to sink my mood
Holding my breath. Oh dear
What a horrible way to go. Hopefully rescuers succeed.
That being said, judging by the photo, if they are still viewing everything through a screen, what was the point going down with the submarine and not just sending a robot with a video feed?
I don’t like billionaires but of course I wish for their miracle survival. As unlikely as it seems.
And if they don’t make it, I hope it was a quick and painless death for all of them…
This may be too soon but l/agedlikemilk. Yes, I know it doesn’t link it, yes I know it’s not reddit, hell I don’t even know if the agedlikemilk subreddit is on Lemmy, but it’s the thought that counts.
I think they are gone. Safety regulations are a thing for a reason.
It did lead me to reading about the dives that went far lower to the Challenger Deep.
The wiki is
There is only so much others can regulate when you are building an inverted rocketship
There’s a desire for low regulation, and then there’s wilful disregard of what professional bodies are saying…
Here is the link to the Bloomberg archive to bypass paywall
Straight link https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/21/titanic-tour-leader-loved-risk-and-called-safety-a-pure-waste/
This guy risk-rewards.
This is going to come up in engineering safety classes for years. If the CEO says safety is a pure waste, you need to leave that job.
He has a slightly valid point, that at some extent safety can be overdone and you’re wasting time and money. However… repeated instances without a disaster (short of say, decades worth) don’t prove safety precautions are unnecessary, but one catastrophe can prove the the opposite.
Being realistic, they’re probably gonna all be dead, and may never be found
