re: Fastest Suicide In History

I still don’t understand why some people are SO obsessed with titanic. Yes, it’s a crazy story, but who really cares.

Thing I think is the wildest is his fortune, albeit generations ago, came from.people who died on the Titanic.

I watched the documentary.

He fired so many people because he wanted yes men and women and if disputed anything or questioned anything boom you were fired and replaced.

His company is being sued by so many people and the guy that originally turned him into OSHA but then got threatened into cancelling the complain needs to get millions for him ruining his and his families lives.

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I mean it would be cool to go down deep in a sub… I wouldn't skimp on it though.

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The nuttiest thing about this is - it's literally not rocket science to build a highly reliable submersible. It's laughably easy. A sphere of titanium (or, you could use steel at the cost of weight, though, so realistically titanium is the better material and cheaper over the life because of that lighter weight) isn't going to fail. Everything else can break on it and the support vessel just hauls it back up and you rebuild it.

The problem was that, at the size he wanted to take paying passengers, he just couldn't make it profitable (at least not quickly enough) to have a 2-man bulletproof submersible (like the ultramodern Limiting Factor, now known as Bakunawa). It would be too costly to operate, only 1 paying passenger, much heavier so that little launch sled wouldn't have been enough, etc.

(But, lest we forget, there is a currently operating manned submersible that is capable of reaching the Titanic and it is over SIXTY YEARS OLD. So, you don't have to have the best and greatest technology to do it.)

So, he went with carbon fiber which works great in a no pressure (e.g. automobiles) or positive pressure situation (e.g. aircraft) to be a cost-effective, lighter substitute for at least some of your titanium or steel. It does NOT work great in a negative pressure, underwater situation which is why it isn't used (except in this case and it ended spectacularly).

Submersibles are so safe, there are no statistics on accidents and such. Until this freakin' thing.

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What about that other guy that died and spent life obsessed with the Titanic? Do y’all think he wanted to die also or knew the increased risk with that lemon sub?

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yeah definitly people asked him about what he thought about the shitty aub and he said something like “I have lived a long good life”

That’s an incredibly suicidal response

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yeah definitly people asked him about what he thought about the shitty aub and he said something like “I have lived a long good life”

That’s an incredibly suicidal response

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PH Nargeolet was that guy.

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Nargeolet replied that he was getting old. He was a grieving widower, whose wife died 5 year prior(although he remarried) and, as he told people several times in recent years, “if you have to go, that would be a good way. Instant.”

“I said, ‘O.K., so you’re ready to fricking die? Is that what it is, P. H.?’ ” Lahey recalled. “And he said, ‘No, no, but I figure that, maybe if I’m out there, I can help them avoid a tragedy.’

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Doesn't align with fastest suicide in history, or even close. Looks like it took months and months.

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Suicide prep work vs suicide itself.

You can't beat turning into mist in 2/100th second. I don't think a high explosive can work that quickly, maybe if you're in a confined space perhaps.

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The snaps you hear on his self recorded video of 1st deep test dive at 3900 meters are chilling. I'd be grateful if I came back from that and never go near it again. But he just called it "seasoning" of the hull.

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You gotta break it in. Everyone knows that!

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