• ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    So many tragedy sites are much safer and less expensive to visit. Hiroshima, Nazi death camps, Pompeii, the New Jersey field where the Hindenburg came down. It's the hubris that's funny and no need to apologize for that.

    • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They're literally going to look at the wreckage from the classic event of Hubris and Boat Lead To Deaths In The Ocean, a story that has been retold for a hundred years, in a poorly designed submersible driven by a guy that thinks this is easy and simple. It's perfect.

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The irony is so rich it became the 6th passenger and weighed the whole submersible down.

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Well, it's not about the safety and expense. It's about the status that's accrued from doing it.

      They're living at the apex of Maslow's Heirarchy. They've bought everything they ever wanted and besides. All that's left is experiences. And what better an experience than an abyssal plain where lay the legendary Titanic? Maybe they could loot some bodies. I've heard the wreck site is pretty picked over by now.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Honestly what's funny is a I bet so many wanted to do this and be able to tell off James Cameron. Like mfers the man studied years and took deep sea diving seriously while your ass went into a metal tube piloted with a cheap offbrand Logitech joystick (couldn't even splurge for a ps4 controller!), ya fuck around and now you found out via violent decompression.

      • Retrosound [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I always thought it sucked that the Hindenburg ended the golden age of airships. Now that was a way to travel. Look, just don't create the skin out of a bomb and you'll be fine!

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        That's only marginally less chance to see thing that went wrong than with this dive apparently