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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (21 children)

The NTSB investigation into the Billionaires Titanic Submersible is going to be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was just reading the ABCs article about the things that could have gone wrong. Best case they're floating on the surface somewhere, and in my opinion, second best is that they impoded in less than 40 milliseconds and therefore there was no suffering.

The idea they're still down there, waiting, terrifies me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I remember when the kursk went down, felt so bad for those kids, dying for the hubris of their country. I read all the reports. 😔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTxA-1JI3M&ab_channel=monkmus

"Who might know of this, The notes we left, Our final thoughts, And we knew they'd get us out...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There was a podcast episode on this. It explained what went wrong and what they did when they knew they weren't get out. I think it was on Casefile.

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