The Titanic

Stuuuuuu said:
This has made me extremely sad. Human beings proving yet again that they are a disgusting stain on Planet Earth.
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It was 3 and they were dead, the experiment was to see if their carcasses would be eaten, one was devoured in a day an other only the bones were left, the last was dragged away, by what is unknown but it must have been big and strong
 
They would not have known anything. Taken from a UK subamriners site

“What happens when a submarine implodes?

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.
A modern nuclear submarine’s hull radius is about 33 feet. (Bear in mind the submersible had a hull radius of about 6 ft) So the time required for complete collapse of a full sized military nuclear boat is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.....

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense→reason→act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye”
 
domalino said:
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Yep they should have sent some of us working class lot down 1st, to be sure, before they let those billionaires down there
 
Kinkybyname said:
all human life valued equally?

Imagine a sub with Putin, Trump, Thatcher, Boris, HRHarry and Braverman on board...

I sense the sympathy would have been somewhat diluted.
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Even a submarine disaster ain't safe from being politicised, Any politician would do for me left or right
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
You're quite right, she did. It was a strange film, with Harvey Keitel (he was very good, as always, but seemed to sort of wonder what he was doing in it).
Above all, it had nothing to do with anything. Maybe she just needed to take a slash between takes, and they left the camera rolling.
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mosssideblue said:
They would not have known anything. Taken from a UK subamriners site

“What happens when a submarine implodes?

When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.
A modern nuclear submarine’s hull radius is about 33 feet. (Bear in mind the submersible had a hull radius of about 6 ft) So the time required for complete collapse of a full sized military nuclear boat is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.....

A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense→reason→act) is at best 150 milliseconds.

The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.

The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye”
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What a way to go
 
TCIB said:
The vessel had been used multiple times. It was never x-ray'd after each use so we will never know if it went down with structural fatigue on its final journey down; or if it simply developed it on this journey.

One thing that annoys me if the reasoning behind hiring fresh out of uni engineers. They were chosen on the reasoning nobody is inpired by "50yo white guys". How you could think like that with so much at stake boggles my mind. They should have had at least one person with real time experience in this field. What their age and skin colour was should not be a consideration.

I suspect an actual expert would be wanting a hefty pay package and him reluctant to pay them their worth being a main point of his reasoning to. He just hid behind the excuse of wanting young fresh thinkers who would of course be cheaper.
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Exactly it sounds like the whole thing was done on the cheap and it's cost the 3 passengers as well as the pilot their lives
It sounds like The CEO got what was always coming to him
 
mackenzie said:
Or, if you are running such an enterprise, perhaps listen to people who know what they are talking about when it comes to risk and safety.
This CEO sounds like an arrogant maverick who "knew best."
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What I don’t understand is that if he wasn’t following international maritime regulations then how was his company even allowed to operate? If, for example, a factory doesn’t comply with health and safety standards then chances are that it will be closed until such a time as it does, yet this fucker was allowed to send people thousands of metres down to the ocean floor.
 
M18CTID said:
What I don’t understand is that if he wasn’t following international maritime regulations then how was his company even allowed to operate? If, for example, a factory doesn’t comply with health and safety standards then chances are that it will be closed until such a time as it does, yet this fucker was allowed to send people thousands of metres down to the ocean floor.
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Because it's dead easy to paint a bullseye around an arrow once you have found where it landed in the woods.

It's amazing how many experts/competitors to this company knew it was going to fail yet we only here about their concerns after the event.

I'm not saying that the sub was safe, I haven't a fucking clue. But if the industry was as dead against this company, then why wait for deaths to suddenly say I knew this was going to happen.
 
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M18CTID said:
What I don’t understand is that if he wasn’t following international maritime regulations then how was his company even allowed to operate? If, for example, a factory doesn’t comply with health and safety standards then chances are that it will be closed until such a time as it does, yet this fucker was allowed to send people thousands of metres down to the ocean floor.
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"International waters" and all that malarkey I believe.
 
M18CTID said:
What I don’t understand is that if he wasn’t following international maritime regulations then how was his company even allowed to operate? If, for example, a factory doesn’t comply with health and safety standards then chances are that it will be closed until such a time as it does, yet this fucker was allowed to send people thousands of metres down to the ocean floor.
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Because they operated in international waters outside the jurisdiction of any country.
 
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