Missing Titanic Sub.

[AugieTN]

$450,000.00 for a 90 minute flight. I wish I had $450,000.00 to blow on a 90 minute flight.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is under fire for offering $450,000 commercial space flights just a week after the Titan submersible tragedy

 

[ocnbrze]

 

[rootabaga]

That was very interesting, at least to this former attorney. The legal analysis was excellent and he’s a really good speaker who is quite familiar with the subject matter. Thanks for the vid, @ocnbrze!

 

[ocnbrze]

That was very interesting, at least to this former attorney. The legal analysis was excellent and he’s a really good speaker who is quite familiar with the subject matter. Thanks for the vid, @ocnbrze!

Yeah i have been watching his videos for awhile now. He breaks things down so it's easy for us non lawyers can understand.

 

[ocnbrze]

interesting:

there is still an ongoing investigation into the tragedy.

 

[rootabaga]

interesting:

there is still an ongoing investigation into the tragedy.

Did you see the “Interesting Article” I posted recently about the company?

 

[treb1797]

interesting:

there is still an ongoing investigation into the tragedy.

What's to investigate? Play stupid games....win stupid prices. Dude built this thing out of crap he got at Home Depot and controlled it with a Nintendo controller. I mean what could go wrong 🤔

 

[treb1797]

Sign me up coach

 

[olbriar]

Oh I bet customers are already lining up.... NOT!

 

[Bearsyzf]

Who in the Heck would ever trust that company again 😒

 

[Steven58]

Who in the Heck would ever trust that company again 😒

Not I

 

[joe71]

Every time I scroll by this thread I am like hold up , did it happen again ???
Then I will scroll the responses and much to my delight find it hasn't.

 

[rootabaga]

Hearings are being held regarding the loss of the submersible…the last message they sent to the surface ship was that they were dropping two weights. That was five meters before it imploded.

'All good here': Last messages revealed from Titan submersible before implosion: Coast Guard

One of the last messages sent from the doomed Titan submersible during its June 2023 voyage to the Titanic wreckage was "all good here," the Coast Guard said.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Bearsyzf]

I thought the last message was , Help us we f'ed up 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

 

[Steven58]

They didn't know what hit them.

 

[treb1797]

There is a documentary on this coming on tonight on Discovery and HBO Max. It's called Implosion : The Titanic Sub Disaster

 

[ocnbrze]

here is a clip from the documentary

Spoiler

 

[treb1797]

here is a clip from the documentary

Spoiler

Pretty much sums it up. Also, just because you have a 💩 load of money, it doesn't exclude you for having 💩 for brains.

 

[treb1797]

I really enjoyed the Josh Gates portions of the documentary and him commenting on things when he went on the Titan himself. Dude was honest as all get out and knew immediately that Stockton Rush was more of a car salesman and this point and was willing to tell anyone what they wanted to hear to make things sound like they were kosher so to speak.

Plus, it was just nice to see Josh talking like a normal human being and not this over the top reality star like he does now on Expedition Unknown.

 

[olbriar]

I didn't have access to view the special. I would have enjoyed seeing it and I think I would have enjoyed Josh Gates segments. I like the guy. I think he is being paid to be everyone's weekly Indiana Jones fix so I try to see beyond that on Expedition Unknown.

 

[treb1797]

I didn't have access to view the special. I would have enjoyed seeing it and I think I would have enjoyed Josh Gates segments. I like the guy. I think he is being paid to be everyone's weekly Indiana Jones fix so I try to see beyond that on Expedition Unknown.

True, just sometimes the over the top excitement can be a bit much for times it isn't warranted. One moment that really stands out is an episode where they visited a home owned by Hitler. They did some medal detecting in the front yard and what do you know they found a nail, a nail right, my boy acted like he was in Jerusalem and they discovered one of that nails that was used to crucify Jesus.

 

[mikedt]

I saw the documentary on BBC2.

 

[olbriar]

True, just sometimes the over the top excitement can be a bit much for times it isn't warranted. One moment that really stands out is an episode where they visited a home owned by Hitler. They did some medal detecting in the front yard and what do you know they found a nail, a nail right, my boy acted like he was in Jerusalem and they discovered one of that nails that was used to crucify Jesus.

I saw that episode... your observation is spot on. There is at least one Eureka moment in every show. If they spend the big bucks to travel and setup and shoot and a nail is all they find.... a nail it is. It's like a weekly Geraldo Rivera Al Capone Vault show. If you find nothing... you air it anyway.

 

[treb1797]

I saw that episode... your observation is spot on. There is at least one Eureka moment in every show. If they spend the big bucks to travel and setup and shoot and a nail is all they find.... a nail it is. It's like a weekly Geraldo Rivera Al Capone Vault show. If you find nothing... you air it anyway.

Not to spoil the documentary for you, but talk about money spent. After going to shot that episode with Stockton Rush and the Titan in 2021, Josh actually called up the President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery and told him he was sorry that a lot of money was put into shooting the episode, but there is no way we can air it. He told him if we air it, it looks like in a way we are promoting what he's doing and after seeing what he saw we just can't. The President took Josh's word for, thank God.

Stockton told Josh to his face that the second hatch that they were using had been tested multiple times in the Bahamas at so and so depths. Josh put the timeline together and figured out it was just a bold face lie. When he and Josh went down in the Titan they had so many problems they were having to write on pieces of paper and communicate with divers thru the window who were in the water. Nothing was working so they had to abort the mission. If you brought up any safety concerns you were either fired or told you just weren't being "adventurous" enough. It's all just still so unbelievable.