This tiny submarine 2.4 miles under the sea, visiting the relics of RMS Titanic. Can it be found and the crew saved before the air runs out?

[Mad Doug Biker]

In this day and age, to simply walk away after all that has happened would be unthinkable.

 

[matticus]

aquatic versions of @Reynard

Useless without pictures.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Not really. It's a frontier. Huge amounts of effort / money /attention were given to space flight after the Challenger disaster. This is similar scientific discovery but going down instead of up. In this case, tourism happening a bit early and in defiance of some sense by the look of it.

But we already know pretty well how to get to the deepest oceans repeatedly and safely, we've been doing it for years - and it's bloody expensive no doubt.
These guys making TITAN had a profit motive and despite all the talk of being innovative etc. seemed to disregard an awful lot of alarm signals from others in the know. Pushing some boundaries carries huge risks.
The fact that it was deemed too dangerous for TV Hard Man Ross Kemp should have been warning enough....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Useless without pictures.

 

[matticus]

Do you not think that a company that takes money to provide an experience to tourists owes a duty of care to said tourists?

Something similar will be written a thousand times on the internet this week. Somewhere, someone has read it, nodded sagely, then gone out and killed someone with their car.

 

[Fab Foodie]

What makes this so compelling though is the sheer rarity of it and the spectacular nature of it, not to mention the seeming negligence/needlessness of it all.

I mean, when did you see such a thing? As @rockyroller says, it's grotesque!


This is in no way to detract from what you have said above, I mean your stats are grotesque too, but this is a different thing.

I've not listened to it, but the Morale Maze on R4covered the disparities from a media perspective between 5 men in a sub and 700 migrants drowning. One is compelling and rare, the other more commonplace - as @matticus eludes too with motoring statistics - just not news.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I've not listened to it, but the Morale Maze on R4covered the disparities from a media perspective between 5 men in a sub and 700 migrants drowning. One is compelling and rare, the other more commonplace - as @matticus eludes too with motoring statistics - just not news.

To paraphrase, 5 deaths is a tragedy, 700 deaths is a statistic... Except that every death is tragic and it's all too easy to fall down the rabbit hole of 'competitive suffering', we've all done it I'm sure, me included (I am putting myself up as a hypocrite here, I know) , so to say that 5 people dying is not 'news' is... Well...

 

[Reynard]

Useless without pictures.

Just imagine short, middle-aged female cyclist wearing snorkel and flippers. There may also be a soupcon of cat hair involved.

 

[matticus]

Morale Maze on R4

This is a Foodiean slip. LIke a Freudian one, but usually spelt wrong ...

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just imagine short, middle-aged female cyclist wearing snorkel and flippers. There may also be a soupcon of cat hair involved.

Is bog cycling a thing on the Fens?

 

[Reynard]

Is bog cycling a thing on the Fens?

Yeah. That's what we do in winter given the amount of mud dumped onto the road by farm machinery.

 

[T4tomo]

I'm sure it's covered by Abta?!🤣

Nah mate independent bookings, flight to newfoundland was entirely separate..

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The fact that it was deemed too dangerous for TV Hard Man Ross Kemp should have been warning enough....

Yep he never did complete his “World’s most dangerous subs” series.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Is bog cycling a thing on the Fens?

 

[Beebo]

Whose insurance? Claiming for what? And why isn't the claimant (whoever they are) paying for the recovery of the wreckage?

These very rich people are bound to have life insurance.
Would a life policy exclude this sort of thing? I’m sure a well paid lawyer is prepared to argue the case either way.