These guys are dead dead.

Love the quote tweets.

paying a quarter million dollars to get crushed to death with 4 other dumb broads in a sewer pipe. next time just go to saint tropez

$250,000

takes 12 hours

it's about the size of a king-size bed

no windows

you take turns looking out of a 10" porthole at the faint outline of the shipwreck

if they can find it

sometimes they can't find it

Even if everything did go right and this didn’t sink the idea that anyone would pay $250k to spend TWELVE HOURS IN THIS THING with four other people is fucking insane. I am not claustrophobic at all and this is fully nuts.

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The CEO of the company that manufactured the hull of the sub would (up until 2016) give a $1000 bonus to any employee that got married while working for him, which violated a state law prohibiting discrimination based on marriage status, and would also reject any job applicants if he though they were Muslim.

    Please tell me the CEO was onboard when this engineering abortion went kaput

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      The CEO of the company running the dives was onboard, but the CEO in the bit you quoted is a different guy who runs the company that made the hull for the submersible.

    • SpookyVanguard64 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The company that manufactured the hull (Electroimpact) is different from the one that actually operates the sub (OceanGate), so I'm assuming he wasn't on it unfortunately.

      However, OceanGate's billionaire CEO was on the sub along with some British billionare I'd never heard of before all this, so it's at least taking out 2 rich assholes lol.