re: Guy films his experience with OceanGate right before the doomed sub expedition.

After lives lost on the sub, really think that they will make things new with safety guidelines and heard the sub was very small and hopefully they will make it large and more oxygen and air on it. This will really change things over for going underwater.

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How did that guy get $250,000??
He lives next door to me. Has 13 million youtube followers.Makes million a year off that..Does other search and find stuff also

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Guy was on the ship with the doomed passengers

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Paul Henri, who was one of the passengers on the sub, is in the video talking with the guy on the boat. I’m not sure how exactly it worked but I think they would do multiple expeditions on one trip out at sea.

final destination will get him.

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Didn’t it nevertheless make several successful trips to the Titanic wreckage?

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Yes.

The people going on and on about the Titan sub and the billionaire passengers are folks who wouldn’t go to the Titanic in the world’s best submersible with James Cameron and Robert Ballard right alongside them. A person who would go can at least understand their spirit and humbly acknowledge that we have all done ill-advised (if not flat out stupid) shite that could have cost us our lives.

I don’t think anyone questions that the Titan was substandard and looked substandard, but how many of us have gotten on an airplane after a maintenance delay? How many of us have driven cars that haven’t had the brakes, etc., checked as often as they should? How many of us have driven a car 100+ mph?

Humans don’t belong at 12,000’ below the ocean surface, but we also don’t belong at 30,000’ above it either and we all know about plane crashes.

People are scared and critical of this primarily because of the price tag to go and that the trip is so far removed from our daily lives that you haven’t lost your natural fear of it. If flying in airplanes were as rare as deep ocean submersible dives and someone died flying to go take a look at Mt. Everest or something, people would be saying the same shite about them.

“You never know”

“If anybody wants to help out” - as they fix problems “raise hands”

I’m peace out at this point..or when he said half the brains on board aren’t exactly working right.

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If flying in airplanes were as rare as deep ocean submersible dives and someone died flying to go take a look at Mt. Everest or something, people would be saying the same shite about them.

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No. There’s a big difference between a commercial flight & a $250k carnie scam.

Depths of the ocean are 100x more dangerous than the sky — it’s not even close. At 12k ft down you can get lost, stuck, freeze, drown, suffocate, get crushed by the water column, or killed by some venomous dinosaur previously thought to be extinct.

And a 5 seater submersible is more comparable to a used personal helicopter with an experimental design, than a standard jet.

Shockingly naive at best.

I admire engineering pioneers, but to be using nonmetal hulls against the recommendation of the US navy — and a vessel you could not get certified… for commercial purposes? Just wrong.

Diving to those depths is cutting-edge science, not recreation. Akin to taking a quick trip outside the Earth’s atmosphere and back, for a thrill… shouldn’t even be legal to market that to tourists.

I wouldn’t have even considered getting on that thing, but to each his own.

ETA: Successful trips…

The navy’s warning specifically was that the hull materials would degrade over time. It was not rated to dive 12k feet. Said the carbon fiber or whatever metal alternative they were using could crack unexpectedly — and this had been known, which is why literally ALL actual “submarines” are metal.

Previous accounts from previous dives are mostly sketch as hell (see OP’s video). And they redesigned the thing to make the window larger — not exactly the same submersible that James Cameron went down in.

There’s several interviews with Stockton Rush on several of the oceangate expeditions, and in some of them he says that if random people want to jump in and help fix up the sub, they can. That’s when you know it was a tragedy waiting to happen. Rush was a narcissist who prioritized glory and fame over the safety of clients. I feel sorry for the four other people on board, but not him. He was a stubborn dumbass and because of that, he got four other people killed.