The Titanic

[Kinkybyname]

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.

 

[Malcontent]

Last week, more 500 people fleeing war and famine drowned when their vessel capsized off the coast of Greece. I hardly saw it mentioned. This week, in just two days, I counted 18 headline stories in just one paper about the submarine incident. Both are tragedies, but we value some lives differently than others, clearly.

For me the headline stories about the sub were all about one of hope and saving lives. Not unlike the young people trapped in underwater caves which also made headlines.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

There's absolutely no need for tourism at that kind of depth.

So the regulation should be abolition for commercial enterprises.

Go explore wrecks at safer depths in safe seas and safer tech and stop waving your high net worth micro penises about.

 

[oldius]

For me the headline stories about the sub were all about one of hope and saving lives. Not unlike the young people trapped in underwater caves which also made headlines.

I am sure many of us will interpret things in different ways, and I am sure that what you point out is part of the story. It is only when we look at the balance of stories that we can form a true picture.

As an example, Madeleine McCann has commanded a large number of column inches and years of investigation. I wonder if her mum was fat, poor, and from Falinge, would she have received the same level of attention?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

For me the headline stories about the sub were all about one of hope and saving lives. Not unlike the young people trapped in underwater caves which also made headlines.

For some people you are correct but there's actually a far more morbid element of high interest rolling news stories like this.

Nicola Bulley wasn't a hopeful story but attracted plenty of attention.

For some this was a story that offered an opportunity for rubbernecking at the rubberneckers lost at sea.

 

[domalino]

For me the headline stories about the sub were all about one of hope and saving lives. Not unlike the young people trapped in underwater caves which also made headlines.

If you listen to people who know what they’re talking about even a little bit - ie James Cameron - it was immediately obvious they were dead as soon as they lost contact.

 

[mackenzie]

There's absolutely no need for tourism at that kind of depth.

So the regulation should be abolition for commercial enterprises.

Go explore wrecks at safer depths in safe seas and safer tech and stop waving your high net worth micro penises about.

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."

 

[talkativesprout]

yeah but you climb it in the open air seeing and feeling the sights and spunds, these were locked in a tube looking at the ocean bed on a tablet

Yes I understand that my answer was in relation your question (paraphrased) "why dont they just watch streamed images from a Lilo on the beach if Streamed images from inside a sub aquatic tampon is what they are going to watch, why do they have to be there?"

 

[Kinkybyname]

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."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-missing-submersible.html

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Maybe the governments of the countries that have access, ownership or rights to the ' dangerous sports/ tourism ' areas or attractions.... should charge the 'tourists' a resue bond or deposit. In the event that costs are incured for the rescue it's there, plus it would make any glory hunters think twice.