I don’t think there has been a more captivating story in all of 2023 and yet in two weeks no one will give a care. The story is amazing. Billionaires lost at sea while visiting the world’s most famous shipwreck. Sadly, at this point it seems unlikely their souls will be saved. To be honest it’s hard for me to feel too much sympathy as sad as it is whenever a human life is lost. The sea is an insane place and making a visit to such depth is extremely difficult, and -a marvel of modern engineering, to make such a trek for no other purpose than personal entertainment is foolish. So sad that these poor souls paid for a quarter million dollar coffin. The son of one of the victims is also making a fool of himself online, by going to a blink 182 concert and thirsting over an onlyfans model. Granted his online handle is audioguy182 so clearly he’s a big blink182 fan, and I don’t want to roast him to hard because I too, went to a concert only a few days after my grandmother passed but I also went with my cousin and sister and in a way, it was a great bonding experience and helped us take our mind off the loss even if it was only for a short while. But this situation is different because his step-father is in a situation where he may still be alive, how could you not be by the phone crying 24/7, hoping and praying for good news. Like can you be sad and not horny for just five days Brian? Also it seems like the CEO may also have been operating his submarine in waters it was not meant to be in.

I don’t think the submarine will ever be recovered. The titanic is a 882 ft ship and it wasn’t seen until an private and government funded expedition was able to capture still pictures of it in 1985, 73 years after its crash in 1912. I am less optimistic that despite the ever-growing pace of technology the 21 foot OceanGate submarine will be found. People need to understand that being that far down makes searching extremely difficult, less people have been that deep in the ocean than in space. Radar mapping is possible but not extremely helpful in this case large obstructions under the sea such as larger animals, schools of fish or rocks would be picked up in this type of imagining scan. It may be that sending another submarine may be best the best option for a rescue but the visibility would probably be awful, imagine searching for something in your room but you’re the size of an ant and can only see an inch ahead of you. I also speculate that the death was quick and had to do with pressure, I’m not very scientific and I can’t pretend to understand the principles of pressure but I think that from one second to the next the submarine either had a massive leak, was crushed like an aluminum can, or just exploded. Lastly, despite reports from the rescue team of hearing banging noises underwater I think this is just a coincidence and not survivors on the ship trying to alert their rescuers.

UPDATE (6/22/23) : I was wrong about the ship not being found, and also apparently the NAVY had picked up a sound consistent with implosion on the day contact was lost in the area of the ships dive path. Overall, it seems that the lesson of the titanic (engineers, designers, founders, etc taking risks and cost cutting measures that also cost lives) has not been learned. It seems generally agreed that the “innovative” carbon fiber hull was the culprit responsible for this tragedy. I do think the media should be ashamed for feeding us, and potentially, close family members of the victims this false hope of banging noises even though I never bought it. Really completely avoidable good news is Stockon Rush the CEO of the company responsible was also in the sub and paid the ultimate price as well, the only difference is that in the media coverage his name is the only one out of the other four victims that is being dragged thru the mud.