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Gut feeling Thrill-seeker pulled out of missing Titanic sub trip over fears it was 'cutting too many corners'
The New York Post ^ | June 21, 2023 | Lee Brown

Posted on 06/21/2023 9:05:49 AM PDT by EliRoom8

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To: bray

There’s batteries for propulsion. Could suck milliamps for joy stick.


41 posted on 06/21/2023 9:43:51 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dfwgator

Probably not. Same as these white leftist bicycle riders who get mugged riding down ghetto streets. They blame themselves for being white.


42 posted on 06/21/2023 9:44:46 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: EliRoom8

The problem with being a “thrill seeker” is that the thrill usually involves a significant risk of being killed or severely harmed. Its fun until the harm happens.


43 posted on 06/21/2023 9:46:41 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: pas
The more important question is how many times has it returned?

Aviation rule: Every take off is optional, every landing is mandatory.

44 posted on 06/21/2023 9:47:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Ann Archy

This was the first dive


45 posted on 06/21/2023 9:47:40 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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At least they didn’t go with the 50-year-old white guys running things, eh Stockton? Virtue signalling = death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YH0qRx5eYkY&t=1642s


46 posted on 06/21/2023 9:48:43 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: V_TWIN

“was run with a $40 videogame controller”

That changed my whole perception of this operation. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick would have been proud.


47 posted on 06/21/2023 9:50:00 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: libertylover

Yes. and Oxygen from some of the fresh water. Our control systems are a little more robust than a PlayStation too.


48 posted on 06/21/2023 9:50:52 AM PDT by Equine1952
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To: z3n

Why do rich idiots keep climbing Mount Everest?

It’s just as inhospitable to life as the bottom of the sea. And hundreds have died.

But they still keep lining up to go.


49 posted on 06/21/2023 9:51:10 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: EliRoom8

Smart guy. Sometimes thrill seeking can be lethal.


50 posted on 06/21/2023 9:51:21 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: V_TWIN; Red Badger; MountainWalker; Ann Archy; Alberta's Child; Leaning Right; ...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4162422/posts?page=19

“Titan Sub: OceanGate CEO Didn’t Want to Hire ‘50-Year-Old White Guys’ Because They’re Not ‘Inspirational’”


51 posted on 06/21/2023 9:54:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', & sexual weirdos - democrat's team against the rest of us)
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To: Leaning Right; z3n
I don’t understand what these rich idiots were supposed to be getting out of this whole thing anyway

Life is about experiences. Seeing the site with one's own eyes must be amazing. It's like seeing Saturn through a telescope vs. on a screen, or orbiting the moon in an Apollo capsule vs. looking through a telescope. BTW, my grandmother's great uncle and aunt perished with the Titanic.

52 posted on 06/21/2023 9:55:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Fai Mao

It’s the 3rd tri for Titan.


53 posted on 06/21/2023 9:55:46 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: SE Mom

And the last.


54 posted on 06/21/2023 9:56:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: caww
I hope they make it out alive but what a horrible way to go if they don’t.

Eh, if they imploded, death would occur before they realized their clothing burst into flames. The pressure would ignite anything flammable some number of microseconds before the water would quench it. Something like 1 millisecond from alive and kicking to on fire then crushed and gone. *POOF*. Pretty much not all that horrible.

Starving for oxygen in a disabled craft and knowing you're done for would suck. Some level of gasping when the o2 runs out and then you pass out. Also better than getting dipped in acid or something though.

55 posted on 06/21/2023 9:58:45 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: beef

Yep. After reading that, my question now is what else did they use on the cheap? Chinese made oxygen tanks purchased from Amazon perhaps?


56 posted on 06/21/2023 9:59:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Good post.........


57 posted on 06/21/2023 9:59:47 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: EliRoom8

Always trust your gut. I see those feelings as a nudge from God.


58 posted on 06/21/2023 10:00:58 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: EliRoom8
but, but, but didn't the CEO state that he wouldn't hire any "50 year old white guys" because he wanted more inspiration?...shouldn't that have settled the deal?..lol...

its the "50 yro white guys" who are trying to save their sorry ass rich butts as we speak...

59 posted on 06/21/2023 10:01:47 AM PDT by cherry
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

“Do nuclear subs “make” oxygen from seawater?”

They make plenty, any amount needed by splitting water via electrolysis.


60 posted on 06/21/2023 10:04:11 AM PDT by Saintgermain
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