Because apparently folks are confused and not looking shit up, this is the missing “sub”. It’s literally a metal tube.
It fits 5 people.
There’s no crew y’all. This isn’t Disney’s Atlantis. There’s one guy who presses a button on a Logitech controller to go up and down. Everyone else is whoever can afford a ticket.
Hope this helps cause I’m seeing some wild ass claims in the comments.
elon should take his submarine and personally lead the expedition to find them in the icy depths, with any luck he'll get lost down there as well and we'll be free of the emerald boy
I highkey think this is HILARIOUS. Because it’s a bunch of rich hacks paying 250k a seat in that nightmare tube. And the Chief Executive Fuckwit of that nightmare himself is in the thing this time. Mans thinks safety features is wasting money it’s why no one can find the thing there’s no “we’re lost and need help” bonus safety features on the tub.
And even funnier imo is I heard that like. They’re bolted in from the outside? Even if they manage to surface they can’t get themselves out without someone on the outside letting them out.
Safety features exist for a reason and y’all just potentially killed yourselves.
A lot of what you just said shows a serious lack of understanding of the situation. And tbh the truth is what makes it creepy, because you can’t ignore the eerie parallels with the ship they were going to study. The founder of OceanGate isn’t a fuckwit trying to bilk tourists out of their money. The stated mission of the company is to enable scientists and researchers who otherwise would never be able to afford it to visit the Titanic by pairing them with the people who have the money to pay for a multi-million dollar submarine expedition. Basically, the company hires itself out to tourists to subsidize actual scientific research. Oceangate is the team responsible for all that nice 4k footage of the Titanic wreck that people were oohing and aahing over last year. They don’t even turn a profit, the company has been in the red for ages. $250k sounds like a ton until you realize that every single expedition costs millions of dollars just to get a ship to take the sub out to the wreck site. Safety was their number one feature. (Eerie parallel to Titanic there) A lot of parts of the sub were improvised, but the core of the sub, the part that keeps people alive, was designed in partnership with NASA. They didn’t think safety features were a waste of money. Safety is the number one thing they spent money on. The sub has a 5-day air supply. Missions are typically less than 12 hours. The extra air that is now enabling us to even have hope of rescuing them is a safety feature. The sub can get back to the surface on its own even in the event all the passengers are unconscious and the ship is totally without power. There are 7 different redundant systems that can be used. That’s a safety feature. While I agree that they needed a tracking feature on the sub and that not having one is a serious oversight, I also want to point out that their primary fear is not a sub being LOST. Their primary fear is explosive decompression at 12k feet. Them being bolted in from the outside actually makes the sub safer in that regard, because it eliminates a potential weak spot in the hull. This isn’t a case of ‘hurhur rich idiots skimped on safety features’. This is ‘these people put tons of work into safety but in the end it wasn’t enough’. Which is exactly what happened with the Titanic. That’s why it’s scary.
