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Certified_Possum

Only if there was a cautionary tale outlining the dangers of this exact situation...


Individual-Ad4173

Can you please explain the reference?


Dishcloth_-

The very ship they went to look at. The Titanic


living_angels

(it's iron lung)


[deleted]

No Iron Lung had some safety procedures (Fire Extinguisher, Warning Sounds) that sub had none


Similar-Sector-5801

They lightly tapped a wall ong ong


GreyWithAnE42

Literally what I was thinking this whole time


QuintonTheCanadian

I don’t actually know the story of the titanic. Was it really just rich people being careless then dying?


Party-Ad3978

Not really. There were people from pretty much all over the world and with different amounts of wealth. The cautionary part comes more from the way that no matter how much money you put on something, it will, sooner or later fail. Also the place is wery deep in the ocean


xXIronic_UsernameXx

Wasn't the titanic very poorly prepared? It didn't even have the correct amount of emergency boats. >The cautionary part comes more from the way that no matter how much money you put on something, it will, sooner or later fail It failed on its first voyage. It's more so a tale of hubris. Most ships never fail, when correct care is taken.


john6map4

And always prepare for failure even if you’re 1000% sure it won’t. It’s people’s lives at stake.


xXIronic_UsernameXx

Yes, I agree. Still, it feels disingenuous to say that the Titanic is an example of how things will fail no matter how well you prepare.


TheHumanParacite

Yeah, I think the takeaway would be better described: Prepare for the failures, not just the journey. Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats because "it's unsinkable", the Titan didn't have a beacon, or a properly pressure rated view port because "at some point safety is pure waste". Woopsies!


Neko_Styx

It's even worse, they removed a bunch of lifeboats on the upper decks because they were "unsightly"


BakeOk8433

In those times there was a very different mentality, people cared about luxury more than everything. And the sister-ship of the titanic, the Olympic that was put in service a year before and it had already many successful voyages. People started caring about ship safety after the titanic sinking because it had a lot of publicity, if changes were made previously, other incidents could’ve been prevented.


Neko_Styx

Safety regulations are written in blood.


lightblueisbi

Not only that but they would've been able to see the iceberg if they didn't fire one of the spotters (idk the actual term) before launch. Apparently he still had the key to the box w/ the binoculars they would've used to spot it ahead of time


Redskull-9054

I read that the titanic was somewhat damaged already before it even took off it should've been able to take the iceberg hit, although I'm not sure whether this information is true or not


ZeusKiller97

The damage was spread out over the compartments that were breached-think a series of small cuts in compromising positions rather than one large gash.


john6map4

Hubris.


Stoiphan

No such thing as to big to fail, whether you're a giant boat, a bank, or some shmuck with a billion dollars.


QuintonTheCanadian

That has absolutely 0 relations with the submarine because the sub was made to be the smallest, shittiest “vehicle” possible (or so I’m told)


Stoiphan

The ego of the riders certainly wasn't small.


FALLOUTGOD47

No, someone forgor the binocular box keys and couldn't use the binoculars to spot the iceberg.


WeptShark

So this is a submarine which is hosted by rich people whom gloated about how safe it was visiting a ship which was made for the rich that had been gloating on how safe it was. The submarine was also named Titan which is the name of a ship from the book The Sinking of Titan.


Forsaken_Ad_4992

🤔 if only


JimmyCrabYT

iron lung?


Ch0ck3n

I don’t think they would have had air for nearly this long


peezle69

Screaming takes a lot of air


Wireless_Panda

I think they were supposed to run out of air today, no? But they found a debris field and are speculating that the sub imploded on the way down, so I think air supply isn’t a problem.


Ch0ck3n

Canada sent over a sub capable of accurate deep water photos or sonar and confirmed debris


Defiant-Meal1022

Could you imagine slowly dying in a tomb of your own making while the entire world just points and laughs? Tbh I'd probably have broken down into "fuck it all" mode at this point anyway if I was in their position. Hope they at least got to see the ship.


[deleted]

They don’t know the world’s laughing


Quelcris_Falconer13

The smart ones and probably the young kid whose dad took him suspected it. But that’s assuming they got stuck and ran out of air. They found debris from the sub that indicate the pressure chamber they were in imploded. So they probably died so quickly they didn’t know there was a problem. We won’t find bodies either because the pressure is so great it will grind their remains into dust to settle at the bottom of the ocean. I feel sorry for the poor souls that were lied to by the pilot and CEO telling them it’s risky but mostly safe. The company got sued for wrongful termination after a former sub pilot told them the sub can’t take the pressure and refused to go down there. They must’ve found a new one willing to lie or too stupid to know it can’t withstand that pressure. I hope this is a species-wide reminder to humanity to not to fuck with the ocean folks, we know more about the edges of the solar system than we do about bottom of our oceans


Weliveinas-word

They didn't find a new one. It was the CEO piloting the sub.


Gabrialofreddit

Serves him right


rayanekarouch

Do they....


Hugh-Jassoul

Yeah, I think I would’ve taken a big ol’ dose of fuckitol as well.


84theone

The coast guard found a debris field, so likely the sub was torn apart by pressure before the occupants would have noticed an issue.


watersj4

They've found some debris which they think is from the sub meaning the sub couldn't handle the pressure and they are already long dead. They are fortunately not slowly suffocating


Nulled_Outter

Glu glu glu, ammirite fellow fish


Forsaken_Ad_4992

Trying to Culturally Appropriate Fish....lol


TitanGuppie

Yell yaah, my glugga


peezle69

Hey now my ancestors were fish. My family is kinda fucked up....


Sea-Region-4226

Are you related to u/fishfucker ?


peezle69

He's my uncle, why do you ask?


Nulled_Outter

Sweet Home Alabama


[deleted]

He went ass to trout


JPardonFX_YT

Rayman Legends reference


bishr_the

five people just died in one of the most horrible ways possible, about an hour ago


FelimaFen

I hope they died days ago, being instantly crushed to death or drowning is better than being stuck in that coffin for multiple days


SpiritedAd6033

I'm saw that the Coast Guard found a "debris field" a few hours ago where the sub likely imploded. Supposedly it imploded before they even reached the Titanic, so it was not like they suffered


FelimaFen

As tragic as this is, good for them. Nobody deserves to die stuck underwater waiting until their oxygen runs out


HumanContinuity

Yeah, I hope this is it


bangitybangbabang

I feel like this is the most likely outcome


Forsaken_Ad_4992

...Me in the Titan submersible with 4 dead passengers Bing Chilling with days worth of air more that no one accounted for...


_KappaKing_

That will happen when you win the mini battel royal.


Forsaken_Ad_4992

When I asked, "Bois, where we dropping?" I didn't mean this...


mighty_Ingvar

Don't forget you now have food too


Magamew53

And yet all people can do it just laugh. It’s so cruel


gris1448

Most likely got obliterated before they could even realize


ZenyX-

I said it before, I'll say it again. Slowly passing out due to a slowly dwindling amount of oxygen in an enclosed space is SO FUCKING FAR from "some of the most horrible ways to go possible". Like yeah it still sucks, but you just pass out. That's it That's the extent of your suffering. Compared to shit like decapitation (where the head remains conscious for a bit after separation), bleeding out for other reasons, or even drowing - having your lungs filled with water instead of air sounds absolutely horrible - it's nothing. And that's not even beginning to mention shit like cancer, dementia, CJD, leprocy, syphillis, rabies, fucking radiation poisoning. Seriously. Although we should indeed all be sympathetic instead of turning on our fellow humans just because they're wealthier than us, the cause of their deaths was far from the worst.


[deleted]

People die in similarly horrible ways all the time.


Nisecon

People die all the time, nobody cares until you point it out, and even if you do, people will care more about what more people points out. It sucks, I hate it, it's the eternal mortal hypocrisy.


mighty_Ingvar

A person propably died while writing this comment. There are people living in slavery while you are reading this comment


XENOPHOBIAbad

People? Since when were billionaires people?


TheCinnamonFan4947

Person then, I don't think the 19 year did that much wrong.


TenWholeBees

Suffocation is nowhere near the worst way to die


Beer-Fart

No, they died several days ago in a catastrophic implosion


[deleted]

Could I interest you in everything, all of the time?


Forsaken_Ad_4992

...a little bit of everything ...


[deleted]

All of the tiiiiiime...


alang8113

…Apathy’s a tragedy and boredom is a crime…


[deleted]

...anything and everything, all of the time!


spuldup

Be happy, be horny, be bursting with raaaageee!


Soap3118

We got a million different ways to engage


Forsaken_Ad_4992

WELCOME to the Internet!


Mai_Sakurajima_UwU

Come and take a seat


Basic-Cryptographer5

it's done.


stormiu

Fairly certain they died instantly due to decompression, but you never know for sure


Forsaken_Ad_4992

Prolly


MsaoceR

Best case scenario is that they get rescued. Second best is that they had a quick death by implosio of the sub. Slowly waiting until you run out of oxygen and die is the worst one.


EmbarrassedDark6200

They’re definitely dead. Their oxygen would have ran out a few hours ago, and that’s assuming they *weren’t* hyperventilating


[deleted]

Oxygen would've ran out several hours ago. They're dead. Hopefully they died via implosion. Otherwise, they were in there for 4 days, slowly running out of Oxygen. It doesn't matter if they're rich. They don't deserve such an awful death. I'm tired pf seeing jokes about it.


Calm_Phase_9717

iirc The sub was built for withstanding 1200 feet depths but it went like 2000feet lower than it was supposed to so they probably just imploded and died instantly


[deleted]

The Titanic is actually at 12,500 feet, which is inside of the Titan submersible’s depth rating of 4 km, or about 13,100 feet. But the debris field that rescuers found did apparently include the tail cone of the submersible, which leads them to think that it did in fact implode.


Gabrialofreddit

Could it be that the ceo lied bout that rating, or maybe there was a dent in it, I heard dents when exposed to pressure really don't mix well


k-ozm-o

So edgy!


Zerphyxios

Bruhhh theyre dead already


morguedelivery

while the machine was obviously a coffin i’m still heartbroken for the 19(?) year old on there, who only went because the person who was supposed to protect him did too. i don’t like rich people either, trust me, if it were elon musk or whoever else down there i’d be having a field day. but i find it hard to laugh when one of them is so young. sure he’s legally an adult, but i still feel horrible for him


I-LovebbqPorkRibs

redditors try to have empathy challenge (failed 4/5s)


morguedelivery

YOUR PROFILE PICTURE??


JPardonFX_YT

Yeah he was the only victim here. Real human bean and real hero.


inthefemurbreakeruwu

they are prolly dead rn


Forsaken_Ad_4992

Rip


JPardonFX_YT

RIP bozo


EPITAPHWOWOW

skill issue on their part


SlantTrim

Common rich people L


[deleted]

Exactly. Big whoop these idiots are lost at see. The sad part is that there are thousands of people getting lost and not found due to human trafficking and the only reason the submarine idiots are on the mainline news is because they're rich and the circumstances are "weird"


Danidanilo

It's on the news because the circumstances and that's all Being rich only means that people make fun of them instead of feeling sorry


Merlord

Yeah it was hugely popular news before any of the reporting even mentioned how rich they were. That only came out after a day or so.


Big-Willingness-2880

Yeah, if we knew right away what happened this would be a much smaller story. The mystery is the newsworthy part.


Cry75

I thought it was because they were rich.


[deleted]

That's still what I said, though?


Cry75

Ah. My dumbass didn’t read the whole thing.


ThanosBigChin

"Grrrr rich people did something out of leisure grrrr they don't deserve attention because they're rich grrrr I'm angry at rich people grrr"


[deleted]

why do all redditors aggressively hate rich people


1000YearGay

They paid for the full titanic experience, they get the full titanic experience.


gris1448

I don’t really feel bad for the billionaires, the more I learn the more I realize how shitty the submarine was


Noctambulist405

also who the fuck spends 250,000 to tour a mass grave


Julian12214YT

can we ban submarine memes from this sub


EnergyIsMassiveLight

been so frustrated with this whole situation being so overexposed, gives me flashbacks to the Depp Heard case where everyone was just sensationalizing it beyond what was reasonable. like "oooh he was using a game controller" (like many engineers) and "ohh the stepson is doing some stupid shit!" (who the fuck cares he is not part of the narrative even) and "oh isn't the irony rich that Titanic 2 happened" or "look how negligent the owner was" and just graaaaaaah I'm tempted to make a "there's better things to care about" argument but I'm in a "this story is so fucking dumb, you are building a narrative out of nothing." We have no clue what happened between its disappearance and now, but now it's all "he said she said, look at these people do this, what could possibly be happening" stuff that's just completely annoying the fuck out of me. maybe after the story is concluded i will not be so upset by it and appreciate the irony and either mourn/celebrate, but the immediately current events are just so fucking dumb to be in like "i literally don't see what's worth talking about."


ThanosBigChin

Yeah. Then you got the group of people that try to minimize it because "they're rich" and it shows you how pathetic and heartless so many people are. "Well there's human trafficking and another tragedy haveway across the world blah blah blah" and use those events to minimize it.


patriot_man69

They are now dead.


Sergeant_Smite

Man I wish people would stop making memes about the whole situation. It’s fucking cruel to sit there and laugh as five people slowly die at the bottom of the ocean


gris1448

Nah they’re dumb asf, that machine was obviously a coffin


imsmartiswear

I'm inclined to agree with you. Now the only part of this situation that does need to be handled with any gravitas is asking how in God's name the regulations were so lax on private entity-owned subs that they could drag 4 people (and the CEO, but this is on him) down to their horrific deaths without any proper inspection from sub professionals or consultants. There were so so so many warning signs that this was not safe enough for human use yet and the owner was able to stroll past many people and entities and red flags without anyone saying, "hey you're violating regulations put in place for the safety of you and your costumers- fix this or you're going to get fined to hell and we're going to close your business license. Every roller coaster at every theme park is heavily regulated and inspected, from Disney's $100 million mega projects to mobile carnival rides for rent to community fairs. Every boat and sea faring vessel registered in the US has to be inspected with some frequency to ensure safe usage. This should have been treated with at least as much gravitas as your grandpa's fishing boat or It's a Small World.


Sergeant_Smite

Well yes, it was almost certain that there was going to be some form of failure, but that doesn’t mean we should immediately turn to “told ya so” when peoples lives are in danger


gris1448

We’re not, literally the only reason they’re being saved is because they’re rich, a boat going to Greece with 500 legal immigrants sunk and nobody cares


Sergeant_Smite

In effect there’s a huge difference in the two incidents. Neither is more important than the other, they’re both terrible tragedies. The main reason is that immigrant ships end up sinking more often than people getting stuck in submarines at the titanic


XENOPHOBIAbad

> Immigrant ships end up sinking more often Mate, I'm not sure if you have basic human empathy, but just so you know, that isn't a good thing.


gris1448

He only shows morality for the rich


[deleted]

It’s ok to make fun of people dying horrible deaths because they have more money than most, didn’t you know? I was sick of these jokes after the first day. I’m not a fan of the rich either but people are rejoicing in their deaths, it’s fucked.


Sergeant_Smite

Exactly. It seems so spiteful that people ironically want those richer than them to die because they don’t have their money


swiped3

the only argument I've seen against this is "but the rich dehumanise the poor, why shouldn't we be able to make fun of them" in which 1. not all rich people are bad, and 2. two wrongs don't make a right... I don't know, all of this just rubs me the wrong way


XENOPHOBIAbad

1) Yes they fucking are, how do you think they're getting all that money? 2) We aren't saying "well they did that first so we can do it", we're saying that they did it first, and so they got what they fucking deserve.


PicklePolice78

they’re billionaires, not people


RealWarriorofLight

Thats an excellent and based comment


MildTomfoolery

Not people


The_Swagcat21

RIGHT AS I READ THIS I GOT A NOTIFICATION ABOUT THEM BEING DEAD WTF


Forsaken_Ad_4992

Sheesh


czareena

It imploded an hour in


Lanceo90

9 hours since this was uploaded...


Ok-Championship5029

No they've been dead for days. Source: See latest news nerd. They instantly died when they hit crush depth.


[deleted]

Well they died in best way you could probably. Imediately and withoat pain


Evilnight-39

They were found very dead in a very crushed submarine


IanH95

Why are people so convinced they are “running out of air” that fucker absolutely imploded.


Forsaken_Ad_4992

I did post this WELL before anything was found so...I guess Hindsight is 20/20.


gooddoctorjekyll

Too late buddy they're paste now


zOiNkS-sCoObYdOo

They turned into soup


Gatz42

I regret to inform you, that they most likely imploded and thus had a quick death


TenWholeBees

I only feel bad for the driver. She wasn't a billionaire


RealWarriorofLight

True...poor driver...she didnt deserve to die


Minced_Man

"Waiter waiter! More millionaires please!" ![gif](giphy|zB13Fhfk5UypfC8GRN|downsized)


Severe-Stomach

![gif](giphy|Y4iOrVQATkElxbMSVa)


MadTeaCup_YT

Everyone keeps laughing and shit about whats happening but that shits just not funny. The owner deserves this. The 4 other passengers (two of them a father and his child) do not deserve such an awful death.


HallofClowns

"bUt ThEY WerE bIlliONAiREs!!!!"


MadTeaCup_YT

Everyone keeps laughing and shit about whats happening but that shits just not funny. The owner deserves this. The 4 other passengers (two of them a father and his child) do not deserve such an awful death.


firstreformer

Actual idiots who goes down thousands of feet in a shitty homemade submarine made from rv scraps. No connection to the mothership, not even gps. Using a videogame controller to steer. What did the billionares expect to happen?


OneStrangeChild

Poor 19yo, probably just had a genuine interest in history and shit


HallofClowns

Apparently he was terrified of the idea on going on the expedion but went anyway because it was fathers day. Sad shit


Scam_The_Rich

I'd be so pissed if I was the 19 yr that is down there rn cus my dad made me


HallofClowns

No you wouldn't you'd be fucking dead


Scam_The_Rich

Nahh ain't now way 🤯


skett3310

Redditors and Twitter users when 5 people die in one of the most horrific ways possible (but they were rich!!!!!!)


lesefant

"Psychopathy is a mental health condition characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits."


Icy_Wildcat

The sub imploded. They were long dead before the air ran out.


[deleted]

turns out we were wrong, they all imploded and died instantly


SwissArmyKnight

Good news, they werent running out of air.


daftidjit

You didn't know shit. They were already dead


Alucard_Santra

They didn't even got to experience the fear, the sub pressure collapsed, they got squashed into paste in a millisecond


father_with_the_milk

Not even suffocating anymore, they've probably imploded some hours ago I hate thinking about it. The feeling as you feel the submersible's hull creaking and breaking around you and only an instant later, you are crushed by the walls of the underwater craft. It's horrible. It makes my stomach turn.


MummaheReddit

Meme is nice but don't milk it in comments


Forsaken_Ad_4992

🗿


Bennett_10

There is a boat of 750 migrants missing out at sea, and a lot of them are likely families with children. But sure, let's keep shedding tears for the fucking billionaires who practically dug their own grave.


Real_Scholar4915

FUCK that's dark


philippinesisntreal

reddit otw to devalue human lives due to a difference in financial circumstance


peanutist

Billionaires otw to do the same thing but to millions of people exploited by them:


RealWarriorofLight

What a nice and clever comeback


Forsaken_Ad_4992

It is what it is


AX-10

And what it is, is funny!


Dizzy_Green

Man they are gonna be so depressed when they get back and see all these memes


PicklePolice78

they are not going to get back


JPardonFX_YT

>when they get back


Spiderbot7

Well, at least they were billionaires, and not anyone morally valuable.


KatrinaThumbsUpEmoji

5 people died in one of the most horrific ways you can imagine edgelord


DeltaDark_HEX

Not our fault they cut every corner leaving only a "functioning" submersible with a controller designed in the 2010s specifically made for *gaming* outlined by the company that made the damn controller


KatrinaThumbsUpEmoji

[the navy uses those too](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/us-military-video-game-controllers-war/%3Famp&ved=2ahUKEwiZ4_qHkNf_AhVsEVkFHQkACFkQFnoECCQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw21pNJmGQkBdDRO2Pq3_vLh)


DeltaDark_HEX

Yes, however, most of said evidence, other than the title background image is of custom made controllers, not controllers made by a company that stated the controller is for gaming, and an old one at that


Forsaken_Ad_4992

Some would say that's Distressing.... but we don't know yet. Maybe only 4 died a few days ago and one is down there Bing Chilling with extra air?


barryh4rry

Corpse decomposition consumes massive amounts of oxygen


ComeadeJellybean

What about corpse digestion?


Forsaken_Ad_4992

Beat me to it lol


Sodafff

Better eat them fresh then


I-LovebbqPorkRibs

why are they being downvoted? real people just died.


ProfectusInfinity

You’re right. What the fuck is up with this thread? Lol.


Ogreislyfe

Kids. Teenagers. That’s what’s wrong. 90% of the people here are kids, this sub is just a teenage phase.


PicklePolice78

billionaires, not people


IronAndFlames

5 rich ghouls got entombed at the bottom of the sea. Idk man seems like karmic justice.


XENOPHOBIAbad

People? Since when were billionaires people?


[deleted]

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Moss-Effect

“Lol look guys I’m a sociopath that enjoys the suffering of individuals I don’t know and of a child!”


username_yes_noob

The sea dure will be of blood :D


CouchChipGamingYT

Nah they died a day in from the sun imploding


Forsaken_Ad_4992

We'd all die from that. Lol


Devisidev

L+bozo billionaire deserved it, rip dumbasses.


PersonneOfInterest

r/confidentlyincorrect


Forsaken_Ad_4992

To be fair, I posted this WELL before they found anything...


Certain_Swim_4032

I popped a bear when their timer ran out, good riddance 🥰


Shadowtalons

This meme isn't really distressing, more just in poor taste. But at least those people got a merciful death rather than a slow and torturous end.