23-06-2023, 03:18 PM
(23-06-2023, 01:57 PM)zqwerty Wrote: The original hubris in this case was the Titanic traveling at full speed through iceberg fields because the ship was "unsinkable" the second instance was the Titan, ironically named, owned by a billionaire who attracted other billionaires to the same folly because birds of a feather flock together lol.
One look at that hodgepodge of a machine should have warned them off going down to 6000psi underwater inside it.
"Former Titan submersible passenger who took 4 dives in it, including to the Titanic, said communication with the surface ship was lost 'every single time'"
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/former-t...58052.html
If contact was lost every time then surely that alone should have been enough to put people off; that means they're very vulnerable if there's any problem.
Then again we're human & we tend to take stupid risks.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)