You're not surviving that, I'm just arguing your death wasn't painless. I'm speculating that the CEO driving that shit with the Logitech and others may have been forced out. The debris field will tell.
Waiting for the cac outrage as their collective heads implode.....
Barack Obama Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About The Titan Sub
Former US president Barack Obama spoke about the Titan sub this week in Athens, Greece.
Barack Obama hit the nail on the head when he spoke about the “untenable” way the Titan submersible tragedy received more attention than the recent deaths of hundreds of refugees near Greece.
The former US president was speaking during a conference held by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens on Thursday, when he discussed the struggles which asylum seekers face around the world.
Obama called for people to think about the “circumstances which lead desperate people to come here”.
He said: “We can’t ignore it.
“You think about what’s happening this week. There is a potential tragedy unfolding with the submarine that is getting, you know, minute-to-minute, coverage, all around the world.
“And you know it’s understandable, because we all want and pray that those folks are rescued.
“But the fact that that’s got so much more attention than 700 people who sank,” the crowd began to applaud at this, realising where Obama was going with his sentence.
He added: “That’s an untenable situation.”
He was referring to the fishing trawler which sank off the coast of Greece, with 700 asylum seekers on board on June 14.
The International Organisation for Migration called it “the worst sea tragedies in the last decade in Greece”.
However, it received just a fraction of the coverage the submarine crisis did. There were five people on the the tourist submersible, named the Titan, when it went missing while en route to see the Titanic shipwreck.
Regularly news alerts and live blogs were set up in an effort to track the search and rescue mission for the five passengers, stretching on between Sunday and Thursday.
Obama’s comments came hours before the US Coast Guard confirmed that the five people who were on board the Titan died in a “catastrophic implosion”.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Obama repeated his sentiment – and, this time, emphasised how it reflects a larger problem with inequality.
He said: “Our democracy is not going to be healthy with the levels of inequality that we’ve seen, generated from globalisation, automation, the decline in unions, obscene inequality.”
He referenced the “news of the day” had focused on how “the submersible, that tragically is right now lost at the bottom of the sea.”
Obama continued: “At the same time, right here, in just off the coast of Greece, we had 700 people that – 700 migrants who were apparently being smuggled into here, and we’ve made news, but it’s not dominating in the same way.
“And in some ways, it’s indicative of the degree to which people’s life chances have grown so disparate.”
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Dude and his son couldnt make the trip so another dude and his son took their place...one man dodges a bullet while another man jumps into its pathSure, just like crossing a 12 lane version of the Autobahn.....
Titanic sub CEO offered cut-price tickets to a millionaire, claiming the doomed trip 'was safer than crossing the street'
Stockton Rush, the owner of the Titan submersible that imploded killing five people on board, offered cut-price $150,000 tickets to a millionaire who turned them down after raising safety concerns.
- A Las Vegas financier said he turned down two tickets for the Titan submersible's fatal trip.
- Jay Bloom shared a text message exchange with Stockton Rush that highlighted safety concerns.
- Rush dismissed the concerns and offered him cut-price tickets at $150,000, texts show.
Jay Bloom, an LA financier, published text messages on Facebook between himself and Stockton Rush, CEO of deep-sea tourism company OceanGate, who was among those killed when the vessel imploded on Sunday.
The remains of the vessel were found Thursday, after a huge search-and-rescue operation in a perilous region in the North Atlantic around 700 miles from Newfoundland.
Rush sold tickets to view the wreck of the Titanic on the Titan sub for up to $250,000.
Bloom said in a Facebook post that Rush had asked him and his son, Sean, to go on a dive to the Titanic wreck site, after two planned expeditions had been cancelled due to bad weather. MailOnline first reported the text exchange.
Before the June 18 expedition, Bloom said he expressed safety concerns to Rush about the trip. In a text, Rush tried to persuade him it was "safer than crossing the street."
Rush said: "While there's obviously risk it's way safer than flying in a helicopter or even scuba diving. There hasn't been even an injury in 35 years in a non-military subs."
Bloom, who is a managing partner at investment firm Trimaran Capital Partners, wrote in the post: "I am sure he really believed what he was saying. But he was very wrong. He passionately believed in what he was doing."
He said the last time he saw Rush in person was at a Titanic exhibition in Las Vegas on March 1, where Rush again tried to persuade him of the safety of the trips.
"At lunch in the Luxor food court we talked about the dive, including safety. He was absolutely convinced that it was safer than crossing the street," wrote Bloom.
"I told him that due to scheduling we couldn't go until next year. Our seats went to Shahzada Dawood and his 19 year old son, Suleman Dawood, two of the other three who lost their lives on this excursion (the fifth being Hamish Harding).
"One last time.. RIP Stockton and crew," wrote Bloom.
Here are some of the texts Bloom shared between himself and Rush:
In the post, Bloom continued: "We are going to take a minute to stop and smell the roses. Tomorrow is never promised. Make the most of today."
The Titan went missing on Sunday, triggering a huge search-and-rescue mission that ended on Thursday when deep-sea drones found fragments of the Titan, indicating that it had imploded.
After the sub went missing, reports said that experts had flagged concerns to Rush over the experimental design of the sub, and customers described to news outlets pulling out of planned trips over safety fears.
Rush had defended the design of the Titan, and claimed that regulations to ensure vessel safety hindered innovation.
"At some point, safety is just pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed, don't get in your car, don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question," he told CBS last year.
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On the real side, these folks signed up to go to the ocean floor in that unregulated suicide can. This wasn't people forced to do shit. Signed the 'you're fucked' waiver and everything.
, and didn't do it. At 250k a pop, this fool should have had zero customers if he was lacking like we think.
Just saying. They've been around for 14 years, 200 dives and nobody died.
People acting like they just went down there with this
On the real side, these folks signed up to go to the ocean floor in that unregulated suicide can. This wasn't people forced to do shit. Signed the 'you're fucked' waiver and everything.
So no, the story wouldn't be bullshit. This ain't like some fools skipped regulation for public housing and the building collapsed with people inside who basically had no other options.
Folks willingly looked at the assisted suicide can, had every chance to be like
OceanGate's Liability Waiver Could Block Lawsuits, But Not for Gross Negligence
The document the 4 passengers signed before getting in the ill-fated submersible could prevent their families from filing a wrongful death lawsuit, but there's one big exception.
James Cameron Blames OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush For Titanic Sub Deaths
James Cameron is going to catch a lot of heat for this ... he just blamed the Titanic-bound submersible tragedy on the captain, callously comparing it to the famous shipwreck.
