A year after Titan sub implosion, an Ohio billionaire says he wants to make his own voyage to Titanic wreckage
A year after Titan sub implosion, an Ohio billionaire says he wants to make his own voyage to Titanic wreckage
Like moths billionaires to a flame the wreck of the Titanic.
Larry Connor is a real estate investor in Dayton, Ohio
Oh, a landlord. Does he have any friends in the business he can take with him?
I mean, he'll probably be okay. Deep sea submersible technology is pretty nailed down at this point.
What happened with the Titan is the Ocean Gate guy thought he was smarter than everyone else and could make a deep sea submersible with non-standard components (carbon fiber that had passed it's expiration date, off-the-shelf electronics, oh and a window not rated for the depths it was going). And to be fair the out of the 15 attempted dives down to the Titanic only one of them catastrophically failed. A 6.6% failure rate isn't too bad... for some applications.
Honestly if it was just a drone it would have been pretty respectable. Using otherwise less desirable tech and materials to achieve a goal equivalent to high tech shit is pretty impressive. But they just gad to put people in it.
Every new detail I learn about the engineering of the Titan submersible takes me to a yet more profound depth of claustrophobia I did not know was possible.
I'm amazed that the local military is still mulling over the investigation to recommend criminal charges. Seems open and shut to me. Criminal negligence at least, multiple homicide well within reason. People were even warning him not to put people in an untested carbon fiber submarine before it's journey resulted in failure.
What engineering? Every trained engineer he hired said “this is a terrible idea” and he fired them thinking he was smarter.
He had an 18 and 19 year old kids as engineers on his staff that were just first year students.
But what makes you think this particular billionaire doesn't also suffer from delusions of grandeur and thinks he too can make a submarine with parts bought at home Depot?
Yeah, I came here to make pretty much the same comment. Submarines aren't exactly the most difficult things in the world to buy or build, the OceanGate guy was just a catastrophic moron with a heart of rot.
Please take the muskrat with you.
seconded! Mr. Musk, if you read this, you would be the greatest of all time if he regularly took new submarine constructions down to the Titanic!
All right, get into the idiot squisher.
Do it! Take all the other billionaires with you! Any of the ones that don't want to go down to the Titanic can be sent off to Mars with Elon.
Good. Can we get more billionaire onto this trend of offing themselves?
The Titanic is hungry. It must be fed. The spice must flow
I support this.
the ocean can be "kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way."
yeah, like if you make a series of staged* test dives to determine the vessel's endurance and viability before filling it with a group of rich dummies and going straight to the bottom in one go.
*"staged" as in test diving in successive stages of increasing depth, not "staged" as in "faked"
This guy seems to be taking safety slightly more seriously with his sub plans than the last guy. Which is unfortunate for people looking forward to more billionaires transforming themselves into paste.
Okay, the article is way more level headed than the headline.
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Right? I know we don’t like reading the articles around here, but this is about a $20 million submersible being commissioned from a company that has successfully gone down to Challenger Deep before.
It’s still billionaire wankery, but it’s much more reasonable in its budget.
If Elon Musk were a real man and billionaire, he would make his own carbon fiber sub to dive to the titanic.
No need, didn't you hear the cybertruck is rated to 6000 psi of external pressure.
Auto correct can't figure out cybertruck
Please please please please...
An innocent kid was on board the Titan, in case everyone has forgotten. He didn't want to go. Limit your laughter a bit.
Ok, I'll pause for a second, then continue laughing.
Apparently he was a huge douche canoe too.
Oh, well, that's alright then.
No one is laughing. When he finishes carving the new sub it will be a thing of beauty.
Who needs guillotines when we can just crush all the billionaires beneath the weight of mile of ocean?
Fine, just hold tight to this here anchor and jump. You'll be on site in no time.
There was a meme of a graph of Titanic deaths over time with a huge spike on it's maiden voyage then a little bump a few years ago.
Yes that one, it might need an update sooner than we think. :D
Please proceed
The strangest thing about this is a billionaire thinks Ohio is a good place to live.
For a billionaire, anywhere can be a good place to live. You have money to force the shit around you to be what you want.
Even a trillionaire couldn't force Ohio to be worth living in.
I've heard it on good authority that Cleveland Rocks.
I don't think the host of The Price is Right would lie to me about such things.
Godspeed.
Proceed, governor
Damn, not Wexner
I mean, if he uses a different model of sub he and his passengers would probably be alright.
This billionaire, rather than trying to wing-it and design his own submarine, is enlisting the services of a company that has already designed, built, and used a number of record setting deep-sea manned submarines.
Fuck helping humanity. They should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. This guy wants to be mentioned in the paper.
Bet he's not gonna pilot the submersible himself.
Let him.
Hey. me too! I started tests using rocks. I figure, if a rock attached with a string can reach the bottom, then I should be able to go inside a larger rock and reach the bottom too!
With a string around the rock, ofcourse. I'm not crazy!
Why would he do that ?
An acryllic sub?
Why not steel?
A sub is not something I would immagine being sensitive to weight in general.
So far I have seen no reason for anyone to develop the McLaren Sub Superleggara...
I definitely think he should. Maybe he can recruit a few more billionaires to prove that it was just a freak accident.
I would like to recommend my e-book, "How to build a totally safe paper-mache deepsea submersible" available on Amazon for free.
A coupon for free discarded Boeing carbon components offered with every copy.
Why for free? Tout yourself as the guru of paper submarines and sell that 130 page book for $99 on your personal site. Make some money off them first.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
Trust me.
A classic.
Paper mache! Ooh wee sign me up. /s
I agree but I have a little paperwork for him to sign first, and we'll need someone other than me to witness it. Some silly rule about beneficiaries.
These are proper subs they would use, not like the hacked together Titan sub. Also, wishing death on people? Really?
Billionaires are partially responsible for every workplace death that occurs due to inadequate safety. It's less wishing death and more vengeful thoughts.
Ah, feel that dopamine hit as you self-righteously chastise someone on the internet in your performative pearl-clutching routine.
You're welcome.
We're not wishing death on them, just looking forward to reading their obituary with great pleasure.