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The four day-long search for the missing Titan submersible has ended the way everyone though it would probably end, as reports confirm the vessel and all five passengers were subject to a “catastrophic implosion” at some point during its voyage towards the Titanic shipwreck.
For a week, global media has struggled on how to report on this near-certain death of all those onboard.
Meanwhile, in the sewers of social media – quite a lot of fun was poked at the whole disaster, in what has been perceived as cabin full of billionaire elite who believed they are above the law of physics.
In news rooms and households around the world, people are divided as to whether or not this is Titanic-esque tragedy, or a Fyre Festival-esque comedy.
Either way, dad now knows a fuckload about subversive submersibles.
OceanGate – the ‘tourism’ company behind this bizarre incident – has been attempting missions since at least 2017, and successfully reached the Titanic wreck for the first time in 2021, and then again in 2022.
It has 18 expeditions planned starting this summer of 2023, according to its website. Missions take approximately 10 days, eight of which are at sea, and cost passengers $250,000 each.
But there’s heaps of different types of submersibles, says dad.
“There’s no regulatory body signing off on this things” he says.
“There is far less technology involved than a submarine.”
“You see, a submersible is a watercraft designed to operate underwater, usually supported by a nearby surface vessel, platform, shore team or sometimes a larger submarine. OceanGate had nothing down there with them”
After a week of frantic and rapid up-skilling in the world of underwater travel, dad says he really wonders about whether or not the OceanGate submersible was able to achieved neutral bouyancy.
“You’d only utilise positive or negative buoyancy to facilitate vertical motion. But, it seems something was a bit of kilter”
“Oh well. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all this information now that this whole rescue mission has come to a close”
It is not yet known what bizarre news story will be the next thing to occupy every minute of dad’s day, given that he can now name every single border town within the contested seperatists regions between Russia and Ukraine, and has officially satisfied his deep desire to educate himself on how Melissa Caddick’s leg ended up on a beach end on the South Coast.
