Has elon musk called anyone a pedo yet?
He’s gotta wait for one of his real users to post it to twitter
You can’t call a bot a pedo?
I mean, I thought the thumbnail was a Fleshlight.
No talk of passengers, so at the very least one person is missing, but up to 5. Also they have no other submersible that can reach that depth. From an insurance stance, that sounds like a massive liability risk to undertake, not to mention it’s just unwise.
So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there’s a post suggesting that a group of explorers were apparently on board based on one of them’s Facebook feed, so it’s safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.
Which means they gross $750,000 per 8 hour trip. They should have a recovery vessel at those prices.
One of the other posts in the feed makes it sound like they only do it a handful of times a year, and that cost is covering a multi-day excursion since they have to wait for conditions to be right. Still, no excuse to not have contingencies, but I think their take gets eaten into a fair bit more than the raw math would suggest.
I wager they don’t have a recovery vessel because they have people sign contracts only allowing arbitration.
The CBS guy read aloud part of the thing he had to sign when he rode on it.
And the video is horrifying on so many levels…
“Everything else can fail. Your thrusters can go, your lights can go and you’ll be safe.”***********
Aged like milk.
I wouldn’t be surprised. But, I suspect there’s also a factor of just implausibility. Apparently, the main vessel they use is “experimental”, so it may just literally be impossible to have a recovery vessel without being a literal government.
My money’s on this being the result of someone ignoring the “hey, these are not good conditions” warnings.
Not just ‘experimental’. This thing looks like something you’d find on a backyard engineering website. Some of it’s functionality is accessed with an offbrand video game controller.
The bit with the contract starts @2:40. At least you can’t say they didn’t know what they were getting into. Still an awful way to go, if it did implode at depth, at least it’d be quick.
And their navigation is dependent on text messages from the support ship they charter. Oh, dear.
According to the CEO the whole business isn’t even profitable. They spent over a million on gas alone. At least this jerryrigged contraption sinking is the most effective way for their company to stop shitting up the atmosphere over the whims of a few rich people.
The BBC live stream said “one pilot and four mission operators” about 15 min ago.
Really a stretch to call these people ‘explorers’. Apparently one of them made their billions hawking private jets. Sucks to be him…
comrade depths of the ocean
Daily Mail says the CEO of the OceanGate company is one of the people aboard.
Those are some dead rich folks
edit: you’d have to be suicidal to ride in this thing, look at this vid
In one article from last year, the reporter said he someone has mortgaged their house to go on the trip. It’s not even rich folks. It’s fucking idiots.
Still a horrible death, being trapped in a can with no way out.
This thing failing had to be completely inevitable. I can’t imagine a universe where it didn’t eventually happen, and now multiple countries need to waste millions of dollars trying to find this thing and risk the lives of multiple rescuers.
Well, I expected a bit more than an oversized soda can controlled by a knock-off Playstation controller when I heard “sub that can reach the Titanic”.
Just listened a podcast about the deepest ever submarine rescue. It’s pretty much all hands on deck worldwide when a submarine goes missing. Atleast then it was. There aren’t many rescue vessels that can go that deep.
This sounds interesting - what’s the podcast?
I need them to find the submersible for my own mental sake. The list of phobias that this is checking off is too much. Claustrophobia, thalassophobia, mazeophobia…
We need c/nottheonion for stuff like this…
“All of these submersibles have been kind of janky,” Pogue said.
BBC’s also got a live feed going for this.
Apparently, the sub’s supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.
