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James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@beehaw.org

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Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it imploded, suggesting that they were aware the hull was starting to fail.

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[–] binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know this is possibly a little insensitive, but I find it quite poetic for the folks to die similarly, and in proximity to the Titanic. They must have really liked the Titanic, and they died doing something that they've probably looked forward to a long time.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel bad for the 19 year old boy. He didn't want to go and was very nervous, but it was Father's Day and he wanted to please his dad.

[–] lunarshot@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

yeah that’s the most tragic part of the story in my mind. I hope it was quick and painless for his sake.

[–] MaxPower@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol quite poetic indeed: Titanic was considered to be "unsinkable" and OceanGate's CEO said "security is a waste".

They both got a hard reality check from nature and physics.

[–] jon@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, way dumber than the Titanic. Titanic was one of the safest ships of its era. It could withstand 4 of its watertight compartments being completely flooded and stay afloat. The issue was that they grazed the iceberg in such a way that 6 compartments ended up being compromised. Despite that, it still stayed afloat for 2 hours. Look how much crap its sister ship the Olympic went through and stayed afloat.

This stupid thing was a disaster waiting to happen.

[–] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It also would’ve stayed up a lot longer if the watertight compartments had gone all the way up, so water couldn’t have continued filling ones further aft. It still had more compromised than it could withstand, but it may have been able to remain afloat long enough for the Carpathia to arrive for rescue