I hope the inquest and investigation into this is serious. We are good at this over here and as much we decry elf n safety here the HSE and our other regulatory agencies are proper, and our coroners process would ensure a detailed investigation into who built what, how, what was signed off as safe, why, to what standards etc. Signing a waiver wouldnt cut it. It wouldnt have been allowed in the first place, $250k or $250 million a passenger. That was by any objective standards a deathtrap and I think will be found to be circumventing rules by being termed as a scientific fact finding venture and not a tourist attraction for the very wealthy.
We are all captivated by the story of Titanic. I saw a 3D HD mapping of it on the news not long ago. Incredible with the cameras and tech available.
Nothing will improve on that now, for me anyway. I know the experience of seeong with your own eyes is probably amazing, but this is in the pitch black, at huge human risk, through a tiny portal that will show a probably more limited view given their time there before ascending.
I remember going to an exhibition at the naval museum im Greenwich in the early 90s to see artefacts recovered from the Titanic so get the interest, I share it. The human element of it, peoples belongings, bits of the history like a time capsule.
The wreck itself is documented now, and lets be honest is a mass grave. Dont fucl about with now, nothing more can ever be gained by exploring round it now it is 3D mapped. Leave it the fuck alone, and certainly dont go down there in a bloody tube weighed down with scrap piping and manoevred by a fucking gaming controller once dropped and with no way of knowing which way you are even pointing in essentially a huge deepest possible underwater scrapyard