Titanic tourists likely goners

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Couple signs that those on board likely knew they were in serious trouble vs it just happening instantaneously without their advanced knowledge:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-ca ... c6b800cf11

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More & different accounts of negligent risk taking:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/titanic- ... 808ab640a5

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Apparently there is some debate over who should pay rescue costs for rich adventurers:

https://torontosun.com/news/world/when- ... e-attempts

IMO nothing will change, as maybe it shouldn’t, besides the fact that people will be made aware that governments do in fact pay the bill from tax dollars.

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The wreck of the Titanic is an "attractive nuisance" that will probably continue to attract both legal and illegal adventurers for some time to come...to vandalize and steal from the wreck, and or, to meet their own deaths.

The world was already obsessed with the disaster before Mr. Ballard discover the physical wreck in 1985. Novels and major Hollywood movies were made before the James Cameron movie of the 1990s.

Whats weird is that it could be argued that the first novel about the Titanic was written in 1898...14 years before the Titanic even set sail in 1912. Written by an American merchant marine sailor, and one time first mate turned author Morgan Robertson.

His novel was orginally entitled "Futility". The story involved a fictional new luxury ocean liner (advertised as the biggest and fastest of its time, and as being 'unsinkable') sailing on its maiden voyage...hitting an iceberg, and then sinking with most of its crew and passengers because of lack of life boats.

The name of this ill fated ocean liner was "the Titan". Similar to the name of the later real liner RMS Titanic (and also identical to the name of this submersible that just sank).

The book was renamed "the Wreck of the Titan". It's fictional Titan had other similarities to the real Titanic besides its name... in dimensions and speed, and life saving equipment accomidations number of passengers and crew etc. Folks at the time credited the merchant marine sailor turned author Robertson with having an eerie clairvoyance. He denied that. And in truth having been almost a sea captain he had good knowledge of the trends in ship design and in international ocean liner business competition and didnt need ESP to extrapolate into the near future of ocean liner design.

Still...its a kinda weird thread that connects his fictional "Titan" with both the real Titanic and this real submersible named the "Titan".

^ Woah!

More people had safety concerns, OceanGate embellished on their "partnerships," and operated in a grey area:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/us/ocean ... index.html

My guess is that new maritime laws come of this requiring deep sea submersibles to be inspected & classed/approved for use even if they only operate in "lawless," international waters. Something like that. It's always when people die that new workplace safety rules get written in hopes of preventing repeats, so, I bet there's some new regulations that come of this little whoopsie.

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Another guy who had safety concerns after his trip was cancelled due to constant work on the sub:

https://people.com/editor-scheduled-to- ... ms-7552315

Different topic - the 19yo:

I read a couple articles that said he didn’t wanna go, but I remember reading another article quoting his mother saying that they’d been on vacation in Canada for a month and she was supposed to go on the sun with her husband but she gave up her seat to their son because the young man Wanted to go with his dad. Conflicting stories, buuut, if what the mother says is true then it’s a little less sad the kid died if he actually was wanting to be there vs terrified and didn’t want to go and only did because his dad wanted him to. Hard to ever know what the truth of that actually is.



Another thing: Some meme shows a computer monitor that appears to be screwed into the inside of the carbon fibre hull.. that’s a big wtf if true. Should have been glued or something. What if that’s what compromised it ??! But then again experts say that repeated pressurizations dive after dive would have weakened the carbon fibre and that’s likely what did it in.

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