Titanic tourist submarine
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3800 metres is FUCKEN deep ( as the article states this is how deep the Titanic sunk )
Tomorrow on my inevitable morning stroll I’m going to try and measure out 3.8km and try and imagine just how deep it is.
It’s about 2000 guys my height standing on top of each other…….
I was thinking about this today and the mindset of anyone who would do something like this. At what stage do these obscenely wealthy people sit back and just say enough is enough and realise they’ve “clocked” life ? When are they satisfied ? Is buying a sports team or a helicopter or a super yacht not enough ? Gold plated toilets ? Is snorting cocaine out of a supermodels arsehole every night not enough ?
Why do they have to have these “thrills” that are so out of reach for the rest of us ?
It’s really bizarre to me.
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I can't say I've ever wanted to visit it, but it can be a more eclectic mix of wealth than the current crew.
From 2017:
Renata Rojas has longed to visit the wreck of the Titanic since she was a girl, years before the ill-fated passenger liner was discovered on the seabed three decades ago.
Next year, the 49-year-old New York banker and diving enthusiast should finally realize her dream, and she is shelling out more than $105,000 for the privilege.
“I don’t own an apartment. I don’t own a car. I haven’t gone to Everest yet. All of my savings have been going towards my dream, which is going to the Titanic,” said Rojas, who last tried to visit the wreck in a 2012 centennial expedition that was canceled.
“I’ve made a lot of sacrifices over time.”
(https://nypost.com/2017/04/14/why-this-banker-is-shelling-out-over-100k-to-visit-the-titanic/)
She made it in 2022 on Titan... https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/a-womans-lifelong-dream-to-see-titanic-and-how-she-made-it-come-true-9347141.html
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@MN5 You'll find that money isn't the motivating factor for most of these types.
Power, control, influence are what it's all about. Some like to be put on a pedestal as well.
There is a limited ceiling for those that are only in it for the money and it's a long long long way beneath billionaire.
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@Donsteppa James Cameron is Nostradamus.
Don't know of anyone else who thought that perhaps the sub had catastrophically imploded...
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@Donsteppa Just going to point out by banker, she must've been a teller to not own anything and have saved to the point where at 49 she can finally outlay a hundred grand.
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@booboo said in Titanic tourist submarine:
@Donsteppa James Cameron is Nostradamus.
Don't know of anyone else who thought that perhaps the sub had catastrophically imploded...
Cameron knows his stuff but others may have known as well
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I suspect no classicist would have entered that sub. The Titans didn't have much of a rosy future.
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@Machpants said in Titanic tourist submarine:
Game controllers are used in a lot of real world places. Military use heaps, why reinvent the wheel, cheap, reliable and easy to have spares
You'd be amazed at the number of things still controlled by Sinclair ZX81 boards until about a decade ago - were cheap, reliable and easily fixable.
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Neighbour's an ex-RN submariner - CPO nuclear engineering - and he's said exactly the same thing.
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What was the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of the Titan submersible? An expert explains
Deep underwater, the Titan submersible would have been crushed in less than a second once a defect cracked the hull.
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@MajorRage said in Titanic tourist submarine:
@MN5 You'll find that money isn't the motivating factor for most of these types.
Power, control, influence are what it's all about. Some like to be put on a pedestal as well.
There is a limited ceiling for those that are only in it for the money and it's a long long long way beneath billionaire.
Yeah but the money gives them all those things to some extent.
Reminds me a bit of this brilliant scene
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Titanic tourist submarine:
Neighbour's an ex-RN submariner - CPO nuclear engineering - and he's said exactly the same thing.
I've never been in a submarine, and I said exactly the same thing.
But then - I think that was @booboo 's point? EVERYBODY with half a brain knew what had happened, but it suited the media to pretend that SAR was realistic... and politically, the folks on the scene had to pretend.
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Titanic tour CEO didn't hire '50-year-old white guys' because they...