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Missing Titan submersible is operated by a cheap game controller
(videogames.si.com)
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They could afford to pay $250k for a vacation, and they voluntarily rode this deathtrap?!
Proof positive that being rich doesn't make you smart.
Where they get to watch the Titanic oh a fricking TV! It could as well just have been a simulation with a small robot that actually goes and films the Titanic.
What weirded me out was it was being cast as a joint exploration effort when one of the members was charging the others. Would seem like a total grift, given the cost-cutting steps, if not for the owner/'designer' putting their own life on the line too.
Such deep sea submersibles are inherently a bit of an experimental industry, but even a cursory scan of opinions from others in that community seems to suggest it's seen as extremely not-kosher to put others' lives on the line with your experimental craft. Dude just seems to have been a bit nutty, and not altogether considerate enough of his own wellbeing or others'.
Especially when you have to sign a waiver that literally reads:
I just hope this destroys the entire extreme vacationing fad... but it probably wont
It will just get more expensive.