Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Blackstar]

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

*Cthulhu's pixel has connected to logitech G F7...*

 

[ForgedBlades]

Little late but whatever.

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[CaptainRockall]

Nah. We'll get a romantic film about the nigger floyd riots with 2 completely irrelevant characters first and it will completely postpone this story because we live in a world where James Cameron would be executed if he gave out the revelation in his 3 hour long movie like how Stanley Kubrick tried to do with the Rothschild Family in Eyes Wide Shut.

Also to mention Dona Paz which had a death toll 3x that of the "Titanic".

Nigger Floyd, The Greatest Hits:

Another Prick On A Wall
(Not) Coming Back To Life
(Un)comfortably Numb
(I Can't) Breathe
Brain Damage
A Great Day For Freedom
Paranoid Eyes
(No) Signs Of Life
Vegetable Man

 

[Null]

I know that some of you are going to say "well I would told my dad no!" but kids at that age still want to prove their worth to their parents (especially if there's a billion dollars worth of inheritance at stake) and hindsight is 20/20.

if he had not of gone he'd already have the money. the other kid is already spending his on onlyfans and blink182.

 

[Ghostse]

$250,000 for a shipwreck tour seems like a lot, but it included a meet-and-greet with the crew and passengers so its a decent deal if you think about it.

 

[AnOminous]

Which version of Bluetooth are you referring to? There is a big jump in capabilities and reliability in Bluetooth 6 vs older ones

Apparently it isn't even Bluetooth but some ancient proprietary Logitech shit. I have a keyboard/mouse set using it and it's unreliable as hell.

Stop repeating that it's a Bluetooth controller because it's not. It uses a 2.4GHz dongle to connect to the PC, but it's not Bluetooth or WiFi. It's Logitech's own bullshit running on 2.4GHz they've designed 13 years ago and never changed anything about it ever since.

So it's even WORSE than Bluetooth? I have one of their keyboard/mouse combos and it randomly stops working. It's infrequent enough it's okay on a secondary computer I don't use much, but these idiots entrusted their lives to that shit?

 

[Android raptor]

Okay the kid is the only one I give my sympathies to.


I know that some of you are going to say "well I would told my dad no!" but kids at that age still want to prove their worth to their parents (especially if there's a billion dollars worth of inheritance at stake) and hindsight is 20/20.

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Agree. The rest was just karma, especially the CEO who decided to build a groversub in the first place instead of following tried and tested designs for deep-sea subs (like Alvin).

At least it's confirmed they were all dead within a fraction of a second. Probably a more merciful death than the CEO at least deserved.

The real winners here are the deep-sea isopods and other critters who get a nice treat of formerly-human goo. Real isopod hours.

 

[MagneticTowels]

 

[Slav Power]

So it's even WORSE than Bluetooth?

Yes, that's exactly what I was conveying. They've entrusted the controls of the entire ship to a device which sole means of communication with the computer is an ancient proprietary dongle. Not even a widely adapted standard like Bluetooth or something reliable like a wired USB connection. Just shitty proprietary wireless technology straight out of 2010.

 

[Android raptor]

$250,000 for a shipwreck tour seems like a lot, but it included a meet-and-greet with the crew and passengers so its a decent deal if you think about it.

gotta be one hell of an awkward afterlife meet and greet to have a bunch of mostly poor and working class people killed by the hubris of rich assholes vs. rich assholes hoisted by their own retardation while trying to gawk at their grave.

If there is an afterlife, I hope the CEO especially is going to spend the rest of eternity being laughed at by the Titanic victims.

 

[AnOminous]

I mean afaik the passengers all signed waivers that made the extreme risk of death part abundantly cleared. I can't imagine why they'd have any legal grounds to sue but I'm no lawyer.

Because you generally can't waive liability for gross or criminal negligence or intentional conduct, just normal negligence. Being warned by an engineer that your ship was objectively a deathtrap and just firing him in retaliation while signing off on the guaranteed future death of a bunch of people is at the very least gross negligence, possibly even criminal.

As an example, if you go to a baseball game, it's generally understood that you're accepting the risk of getting accidentally hit by a baseball, but if the pitcher turned to you and deliberately beaned you, that wouldn't be considered waived.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

Because you generally can't waive liability for gross or criminal negligence or intentional conduct, just normal negligence. Being warned by an engineer that your ship was objectively a deathtrap and just firing him in retaliation while signing off on the guaranteed future death of a bunch of people is at the very least gross negligence, possibly even criminal.

As an example, if you go to a baseball game, it's generally understood that you're accepting the risk of getting accidentally hit by a baseball, but if the pitcher turned to you and deliberately beaned you, that wouldn't be considered waived.

While yes, if he broke any laws, the waiver would be null I imagine, but he seemed to have specifically designed his company to outright bypass any laws. The whole incident happened in international waters, what are we gonna do, claim the ocean? If what he was doing was actionable in any way he would've been stopped before this ever happened, this wasn't the first voyage the S.S. Pepsi Can took to the titanic.

 

[Buster Scruggs]

"For our souls in the ocean forever will be" - some paki, probably.

 

[AnOminous]

While yes, if he broke any laws, the waiver would be null I imagine, but he seemed to have specifically designed his company to outright bypass any laws. The whole incident happened in international waters, what are we gonna do, claim the ocean?

It would be an admiralty law case under the Jones Act (for the seamen) or under admiralty law generally, which covers torts and crimes committed by or against U.S. citizens in navigable waters. Other nations similarly claim jurisdiction over acts in international waters against their citizens, and for instance, all nations have universal jurisdiction over crimes like piracy.

So very probably a number of nations could have some form of jurisdiction over some or all of this case and if it goes to court the first question will probably be which country/countries gets to try which parts of it, or whether the whole shebang goes to one country. The smart move would probably be for everyone to try to come up with an argument for it all being tried in U.S. federal court which has a lot of experience in such cases.

 

[Der weiße Teufel]

I'd like to see this in a documentary narrated by Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man style.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

It would be an admiralty law case under the Jones Act, which covers torts and crimes committed by or against U.S. citizens in navigable waters.

Only the CEO was American. The others were Pakistani, British, and French.
Ok I mean technically the business would fall under a crime commited by a US citizen, so I actually may be wrong here.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Is subway going to make the titan sandwich a menu item like it comes with tuna and mayo

Better be 250,000 dollars.

 

[ForgedBlades]

*Curb theme starts playing*

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

$250,000 for a shipwreck tour seems like a lot, but it included a meet-and-greet with the crew and passengers so its a decent deal if you think about it.

And I thought tours to the depths below the 60th parallel south was expensive when they only show you the peninsula of the land of the faked midnight sun footage's. Webcams in Ushuaia looks promising but they at midnight in Antarctica. It must be giving away something.