I can’t wrap my head around paying $250k to go 4,000 meters down to look at a shipwreck. I’m also poor though In all seriousness hope they find them safely
I watched a thing on people who had paid to go to the Titanic and the people were not likable at all. Who would have guessed with rich tourists?
Pretty funny when he gets to the description of submersible in that video. 3:00 mark for those interested
If I had $250k to spend like it was nothing, I’d definitely do this. Now people can pay to visit both.
Oh fuuuuuuck no. Not a chance in hell I'm going FOUR MILES underwater in a submarine that has parts from Camper World and controlled by a god damn GameCube controller.
I wonder if it will be like with the bodies on Everest. “There is submersible 097, so you know we are close to the ball room.”
trying to verbalize this without coming of as a big idiot, but pretty crazy 110~ years have passed and yet it just sits on the sea floor. to me, that means we don't have the means to go down and pull out something 4 miles deep on the ocean floor, or it would crumble and fall apart at the point if any attempt was made.
because humanity likes to put things on display and it is one of the most famous structures in modern history?
Imagine spending a quarter million bucks to go see a mass grave at the bottom of the sea, only to join them.
The capsule is advertised to have 96 hours of oxygen for survival, which "gives us some time to continue searching and continue to using all our means to try and locate the crew members," Mauger said. presuming the submersible is intact, imagine sitting there and just wondering if anyone is going to come save you.
It has a massive debris field and the ship is getting beat up year after year because people are looting the site and resting their mini subs on pieces of the wreckage. This shit would be illegal.
It’d also be a $25 ticket to see it above water, so the capitalism machine says leave it there for $250,000 a pop.
this led me to this: https://ian.umces.edu/site/assets/f...n-devastation-now-a-haven-for-marine-life.pdf
I had a submarine phase where I’d watch videos about their disasters. We actually brought up a Russian sub using Howard Hughes as the cover.
I think the wildest story of all time is how James Cameron and Bill Paxton did this and then when they came back up the crew was like “hey bad news guys, 9/11 just happened”
I took a submarine tour of shipwrecks off the coast of Aruba, but we didn’t go anywhere near as deep as this one. In hindsight, I probably should have asked myself more questions about safety before I got on board.