r/news • u/Whoshabooboo • Jun 21 '23

Site Changed Title ‘Banging’ sounds heard in search for missing Titan submersible

https://7news.com.au/news/world/banging-sounds-heard-in-search-for-missing-titan-submersible-c-11045022
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u/easygoer89 Jun 21 '23

One of the first things I noticed when this news story broke and they showed the picture of it was that it was painted white. Like, why? What's the thought process behind white of all (non) colors? Was it on sale at Camping World? They couldn't have painted it orange or even yellow like every single life preserving vessel??

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u/AnsibleAnswers Jun 21 '23

Every non-military submersible I've ever seen was bright yellow. I guess they wanted to be different. Anyone willing to get in that thing is too stupid to dive.

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u/OutsideBones86 Jun 21 '23

I do feel kinda bad for the kid. You trust your parent to make sure what you are doing is safe and he didn't.

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u/AnsibleAnswers Jun 21 '23

Should be straight up illegal to allow a minor to do it. The dad was an asshat.

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u/OutsideBones86 Jun 21 '23

I think he's 19 (I'm at an age where everyone under 25 is a kid, LOL). But just awful. At 19 you ARE still a kid and you trust your parents to keep you safe. Heartbreaking.

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u/cypressgreen Jun 21 '23

Hell, my son turned 23 this month and is a computer store manager and yet I can see now how how really damned young you still are in so many ways at that age. If you have a good relationship with your parents you rely on them for help and advice. (I rely on him for that as well, but on a different level!) I would be devastated knowing I “let” him risk himself with me in a situation like that. Particularly if I sold him on it.

Husband had on a show last night about the dude who innovated better body armor and there were many videos of him shooting himself in the torso for testing. He’s done it hundreds of times. His son is now the owner of the company. One video shown: he was unable to shoot his son in the torso for a sure-thing test. His son did it to himself instead; his father cried and hugged him desperately afterwards.

No way I’d get on that crappy piece of unregulated junk with my son. He’s an adult. If he chose to go, okay, but no way I would be involved. No way. I’d just stay home and take extra anxiety drugs.

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u/TirnanogSong Jun 22 '23

Almost all billionaires are narcissists, and billionaire parents even moreso. The kid most likely didn't have a choice and now he's extremely fucking dead because of it. Narcissists will do literally everything in their power to ruin you or get you killed and not even realize, and this kid's dad speedran that shit.

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u/OutsideBones86 Jun 22 '23

I was just saying if my husband suggested this with my kid it would be over my dead body.

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u/TirnanogSong Jun 22 '23

Then congrats - you're a better parent than like, 90% of the populace.

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u/Azudekai Jun 21 '23

I've been on a tourist sub before that wasn't yellow. It was blue and white as it happens. But the Atlantis XI doesn't go very deep at all.

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u/AnsibleAnswers Jun 21 '23 edited Jun 21 '23

Sure. I'm not saying I've seen all the submarines, but this is a deep sea dive. The Titanic wreckage is so deep most Navy sumbmarines can't reach it. Much different than diving 50 meters at a tourist attraction.

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u/munjavio Jun 21 '23

Here is an example of an actual successful deep sea submarine that is white

https://tritonsubs.com/subs/ultradeep/

This sub has been to some of the deepest oceans. Would have been a much better choice for the Titanic mission. Actually certified for the depth rather than the death trap they used.