Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

Car Won't Crank said:
It's not really among mountaineers. The peak mountaineering athletic achievement is to summit Denali/Mt McKinley.
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I've heard K2 is also regarded as tougher. Anyway the number of deaths per summits is ridiculous. But for most people who aren't world class, even the people who are almost that good, Everest is about the only one someone semi-sane would do. It's something most people couldn't do, and something the vast majority shouldn't even try.
 
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Sinner's Sandwich said:
Wasn't the the mother of the dead billionaire kid supposed to go but didn't? Even if it wasn't her I read that there was a woman who wanted to join Rush on his deadly voyage but it didn't work out.
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There actually was a woman that not only wanted to, but actually visited the Titanic in this shitty tin can
A woman named Chelsea Kellog.

In new info on Stockton Rush the lolcow

At around 5:00 is the funniest part
In a CNN interview two people imterested who backed out, said that Stockton flew out to them to convince them. And apparently he flew to Vegas in an experimental plane which he built himself.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
It's not really among mountaineers. The peak mountaineering athletic achievement is to summit Denali/Mt McKinley.
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Everest only gets the press because it's the highest. From what I understand when you do actually do it there's literally a lineup to get to the summit. You wait in line, stand on the summit for a moment to take it all in and then go back down. Sure it's dangerous but all mountaineering is dangerous. And everybody has their favorite "most dangerous" mountain out there. Denali is one, K2 is another and I'm sure there's another dozen out there that people say is worse.
 
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Falcon Sebben said:
Everest only gets the press because it's the highest. From what I understand when you do actually do it there's literally a lineup to get to the summit. You wait in line, stand on the summit for a moment to take it all in and then go back down. Sure it's dangerous but all mountaineering is dangerous. And everybody has their favorite "most dangerous" mountain out there. Denali is one, K2 is another and I'm sure there's another dozen out there that people say is worse.
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Annapurna supposedly has a 40% summit fatality rate. The main peak itself has killed 29% of people who attempted it, 72 of 244 climbers since it was first summited.
Its only the 10th Highest Mountain on Earth but technically and due to the conditions that high in the Himalayas, and its isolated location (takes around 50 days trek to get to it) its one of the most deadly climbs.
Everest isn't technically difficult (at least not unless you try the North Face) its just high.
You don't get tourist parties attempting Annapurna or K2.
 
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fineapple said:
Schizo time: This whole thing was almost TOO retarded, could it be possible they faked their own deaths in this specific unsalvageable way in order to like, jew some taxes or something money related?
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This was definitely not too retarded for rich people. Remember that time they imploded a global economy because they thought they could jerry-rig together a single-point failure financial system based on loaning large sums of money to people with bad credit? This was small potatoes by comparison.
 
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OK but technically we won’t be killing any passengers…


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BikeLock said:
A transcript of comms between the Operation Ship and the Titan may have been leaked.
Seems that 'ol Stockton fucked up, and they had lots of time to contemplate it before it imploded during an uncontrolled decent after dropping all of their ballast and the landing skids.
Whoops.
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This is what a couple of people where saying from the start, the last known contact said they were decending too fast and Rush was dropping ballast to try to slow decent, if this is legit, they started to ascend but it was already too late.

Goddamn. If this is legit their last 29 minutes must have been utter terror as Rushs failsub was literally making shotgun loud pops and bangs (according to the Honduras sub operator who went down with Rush on its second dive to a fraction of the depth and warned Rush it was a death trap, even on the second dive it was making noises like gunshots even on the way back up.) as the fucking thing started to delaminate and come apart around them.
 
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Procrastinhater said:
This is what a couple of people where saying from the start, the last known contact said they were decending too fast and Rush was dropping ballast to try to slow decent.
I bet the hit the bottom so hard the already stressed and failing hull just crumpled.
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I honestly hope the last thing they saw while tumbling uncontrolled through the black was the image of the Titanic rapidly approaching through the porthole. Imagine how fun that ride must have been without all of that ballast and those landing skids to keep it upright.
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BikeLock said:
I honestly hope the last thing they saw while tumbling uncontrolled through the black was the image of the Titanic rapidly approaching through the porthole. Imagine how fun that ride must have been without all of that ballast and those landing skids to keep it upright.
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Apparently the thing was so fucking shoddily put together, Rush had to line everyone inside up along one wall when they wanted to drop ballast to counter balance the sub from rolling end over end.
After everything I've learned about it, I'm convinced if I had the same amount of money Rush put into this thing I could build a safer sub myself.
 
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