#missing submarine

[everythingbrainrot]

the rich people on the oceangate sub when they hear banging outside

[memingursa]

Human pet guy has thoughts on this with…. examples.

[bombadilbaddie]

[neery-exe]

Which controller are you choosing for your submarine?

[freck-water]

This whole "submarine to look at the titanic goes missing" is honestly the greatest mystery and it's setting itself up.

According to The BBC:

That shit just writes itself. An elderly billionaire businessman and explorer initially states that this would be the only trip and then states that a window just opened up last minute, then goes missing. It's perfect. Sad and terrible. But perfect.

[deathbyattrition]

"Imagine what their families would be going through!" Sure, weeping their loss I guess. But unlike us they also still have an obscene amount of wealth in their hands and would likely make sure it stays in their hands at the expense of many working class people. The kid is literally the only one I feel bad for and not much for that because he's my age and I myself am a working class pakistani teenager.

Why are y'all "eat the rich" until it actually comes to the eating part? Did nobody realize that if we french revolution this shit as so many suggest we do, the people we'd kill would have families and friends too? So many tragedies caused by them in the world and that thought makes you queasy?

They are, in fact, humans too. Humans that are capable of alot of cruelty. Their death is infact a loss of human life and it's absolutely fucking hilarious that you picked now to realize that. So what now? Are you gonna fight for their rights? Rehabilitate them? Loser.

Just say you don't truly want to eat the rich and go. You may want wealth redistribution and equity, but you don't want to get your hands dirty to do that. There's no shame in admitting it, just know that you won't be making that big of a difference.

Edit: It came to my attention that the 19 year old was reluctant and terrified at entering the submersible and confided in his aunt about it. He may have been an adult but clearly did not deserve dying because of his father on fathers day, he had an ounce of self preservation unlike his idiotic old man but went there for his approval anyway.

The rest? Fuck em.

Another edit: So apparantly the news source that reported the above was sketchy so idk

[bluescreening]

Ok I know everyone's enjoying the submersible full of capitalists sinking to the bottom of the sea but like, can we pls bear in mind:

One of the passengers is a 19 year old boy whose father bought him along

The Titanic itself was not full of rich people either - most passengers who died were middle and lower class immigrants from Eastern Europe and Ireland looking for a better life in the USA

[garthnadermemestash]

[diet-poison]

The funniest fucking thing about this missing submarine is that I didn't know the company was NAMED Oceangate, I thought that was just what everyone online was calling this disaster

[scoobhead]

this CANNOT be real this HAS to be elaborate marketing for bioshock 4 or something (source)

[eazy-peazy54]

I think the banging sounds in the ocean were the rest of the people on that submarine beating the absolute shit out of that ocean gate mf

[ranimotia]

Azul would 100% use his mer powers to save the 5 guys on the missing submarine just to get the 50 million dollars lmaooo💀💀

[marzipanandminutiae]

(note: I do not actually want anyone to die in such a horrible way. please do not interpret this as such)

I just don't get how the whole Titanic sub voyage thing would be worth it, knowing the risk ahead of time. and I'm a social history person, mind; it's literally my career. so I do understand the passion at play

you can see photos of the wreck. you can see artifacts from the wreck. you can see images of people who lived and people who died, hear their words or visit their graves in Halifax

you can go to places that meant so much more to them than an ocean liner where they spent, max, four days of their lives. the Morgan Library in New York City was definitely a haunt of the elite in the early 20th century, if it's the rich and famous you're chasing. and the Met Museum, too. if you care more about ordinary people...there are so many vernacular houses c. 1912 and earlier still around, in the U.S. and in Britain. go look at one. enjoy it- probably some people who realized they were going to die, that night, would have given a lot to see a house like that again

hell, go to one of the MANY Grand Staircase reproductions around the world. seriously there are tons of them

there's just no reason to go down there except for research (and this was not remotely a research expedition). ESPECIALLY in a patently unsafe vessel

[unimatrix-420]

[mrsmarlasinger]

Oh? My fucking god??

THIS WAS THE CONTROLLER FOR THE SUBMARINE THAT WENT MISSING???

The Logitech F710??

Like, okay, apparently the U.S. military* uses Xbox 360 controllers. I get that. It's cheap. It's technology already familiar to many young adults. I get it, I do.

*(fuck 'em)

But still. STILL.

I don't know anything about gamepads, but I do know the Logitech F710 came out thirteen years ago. I just found it on Ebay for $16 including shipping.

But surely that means that through the test of time, the Logitech F710 has proven itself to be the best around, right? A work of video game engineering so flawless, even a relatively sane individual might agree to trust it with their life....right?

Oh. Oh. Jesus Horatio Christ.

Imagine your joystick drifts and your buttons get stuck and your controller lags...while you're steering a submarine...13,000 FEET UNDERWATER.

(That's about 4,000 meters, or just under 2.5 miles. And yes, I know it's actually a submersible, not a submarine.)

Oh my god. Oh my god.

For context, according to Naval Post:

A submarine specifically built to rescue people from subs sunk deep in the sea has a maximum depth of 7,500 to 10,000 feet (2,250 to 3,000 meters). But no, with the Titan, we're talking 13,000 FEET.

So if the pressure at approximately that depth is 5,775 psi, which means 5,775 lbs (2,619 kg)—or ALMOST THREE TONS—per square inch...

...and the atmospheric pressure where I live is sitting at 14.5 psi today...

That means the sheer pressure of the ocean at that depth is, like, 400 times that of the air we breathe. So if your fucking 13-year-old video game controller drifts you into the wreckage of the goddamn Titanic, the moment your hull sustains a little damage, even the tiniest leak, you're gonezo. The sub implodes and you're pulverized. Instantly.

(Plus I hear the compression rate is so extreme, the molecules so fast-moving, that everything heats to combustion in the split second before the water puts it out. So really, you'd be incinerated before you'd be crushed. Ain't that a treat?)

But hey, maybe the pressure hull remains intact and you just lose power. Or get entangled in the wreckage of, again, THE GODDAMN TITANIC.

Then it's just you and your four rich buddies crammed into a metal tube, waiting for your 96 hours of oxygen to run out.

Navigational computers on the fucking floor. No backrests. No seats. No padding. Nothing. Just one small toilet sat in front of one tiny window.

So when the power dies and the lights go out, it's just a claustrophic sardine tin of the wealthy, alone in the suffocating pitch-dark at the bottom of the ocean, choking on the smell of their own shit.

All this, for a quarter of a million dollars per head.

Which they paid even though Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate himself, said that SAFETY IS A WASTE. OH MY FUCKING—

A sadly unshocking thing to hear from the CEO of a company that's engendered safety concerns! For! YEARS!

Also unshocking: the waiver apparently mentions death three times on the first page.

You know.

In case it didn't get through to you after the first two times. Or after reading that the sub is experimental and hasn't been approved or regulated in any remotely meaningful way.

But it's okay if the MacGyvered fucking submarine crumbles like a Saltine cracker, because IT DOESN'T MATTER IF EVERYTHING FAILS! AS LONG AS THE PRESSURE HULL'S INTACT, IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE STUCK 13,000 FEET UNDER THE SEA WITH A RAPIDLY DWINDLING SUPPLY OF OXYGEN! THE CEO OF OCEANGATE SAID SO!!!

HAHA! HA! YES, THE TOTALLY SUCCESSFUL MACGYVERED SUB WITH A COMPLETELY INTACT PRESSURE HULL!!!!

Oh my god. Oh my GOOOOOOOOD.

But hey! Remember! :) If the Juulpod-sized, Atari-run hunk of hubris doesn't literally fucking implode with you inside it, it's okay that there are 18 bolts locking you in that can't be undone without external assistance! Because Stockton Rush said you're safe as long as the (definitely pristine) hull is still intact!

So if you're bobbing on the surface of the ocean, watching seagulls cross blue sky through your single tiny porthole, listening to the pulse of white-crested waves ruffled by the cool sea breeze, drowning above water because you can't escape the slow ceaseless hourglass that is your stagnant air supply without a rescue crew—a rescue crew that can't even find you because you're mired in a vast expanse of savage ocean and oh, by the way, your communications going down is what started all this in the FIRST PLACE...

...well, don't worry! Titan's many, many, MANY successful past voyages should give you comfort! :)

But, on the very off chance this could be a dangerous and likely deadly situation, tell me: which would be the worst way to go?

Incinerating in the abrupt birth of a terrible, crushing singularity?

Asphyxiating in the lightless abyss that lurks like some arcane hell at the bottom of the ocean?

Or suffocating just as slowly above the water, with air so close you can see the misty breeze yet still...just...out...of reach?

God, I hope we save these dumbass idiots. Especially since one of them's just a 19-year-old kid. I don't even care how rich and stupid they are. I just can't imagine dying like that.

[sreegs]

billionaires becoming a petit whale fall incident to help sustain the ecosystem around the titanic is the most beneficial thing they've ever done for our planet