I hope so... because structural failure is the best way for them to check out. Someone on Reddit did the math, and they would have been absolutely crushed within 27 microseconds (or less) of any kind of a hull breach. For context, the human brain registers pain in 150ms. They would have been fish food jelly in way less than the blink of an eye.
that would actually be a really interesting thing to see on video, if there exists a type of video with a frame rate fast enough to capture such an implosion? Not the death I mean, but what an implosion of something (like, say, a sub) looks like at that depth. Or at 27 ms.
Fuck that, I wanna see someone die under those conditions. If all the things a billionaire could splurge on, you’d think the safety of a deep-sea submarine would be near the top of the priority list. Even drug traffickers have working subs. That aside, it would have been so dumb to die on the Titanic. You’re on a cruise ship and you’re gonna freeze to death in the ocean because it hit an iceberg? Lame.
There is the famous crab-in-a-pipeline, although I'm guessing the pressures aren't as crushing as down at the Titanic.
Sounds like a new form of the death penalty when those pesky European pharmaceutical companies stop selling us drugs.
Obviously we're not going to have an exact video of THAT type of implosion, but Mythbusters did an episode testing rapid compression in a dive suit.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...st-submarine-search-live-updates/70345468007/ I wonder what the difference was on the current dive, or what wasn't inspected to find cracks, etc. this time.
reports coming out from a relative that the kid (well, 19 yo) who died didn't want to go, was scared of diving down that deep, but was eager to please his father especially since the trip occurred over father's day weekend.
I am hopefully they had some sort of warning that went off first because these fucks deserve to know how fucking stupid they were before dying.
Realistically, they probably wouldn't have. Even the slightest imperfection or failure at that depth has no dramatic lead up time like in the movies, the pressures says "FUCK YOU!" and pounces within miliseconds. They literally would have been looking out the window and then poof fish food cloud.
None. I think the waivers will be enough to stop that. But on top of that, the company is already basically calling out the US Government for not better regulating them, trying to offset blame.
I think the only way they win any kind of cash in a lawsuit is if they can prove negligence, and the fact that the CEO was on board and the pilot kind of lends a strong case that they felt it was safe enough, despite him being somewhat moronic around his ideas about safety.
Well, this is where I spent most of the day today, in 107 heat. In other news, I found this little guy hiding under a truck today. No idea where his mom is, but I hope she's okay. Jungle Julia says I should have taken him home, but I wasn't sure if he's weaned yet.
All they have to do is play that "I broke the rules" clip in front of a jury and it's ballgame. Chances are this will all be handled in bankruptcy court anyway, and settlements will be part of just getting all the paperwork squared away.
I haven't had time to pay that much attention to it all, but wasn't pretty much everyone on there rich as hell already. Except for that one guy that was paid to be a guide because he was a Titanic expert, The Paul guy? It's not like some destitute family winning a slip-and-fall case and having it made the rest of their lives. They already have loads of money.