Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Neoliberalism and stupidity.
Titanic tourist sub missing
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From what I’ve read it relied on communication from the support vessel for directions via text messages! It lost contact before the ETA so it could literally be anywhere.
Cid
Proper break this time
Nah, that would be a different order of stupidity. They may have just driven into it by accident of course...
Thing is they lost contact at 1:45 and the descent takes 'over two hours'. I suppose there's a chance that they managed to come down on top of it, or some isolated piece of wreckage.
Or maybe they did. And are presently being flung around the ocean waves with the oxygen running out. Grim.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Had a navy bod on BBC news. Standard op for a sunk sub is to "hammer like hell for 3 minutes on the hour and half past". Which could suggest they are still alive. Just need to find them.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Depends on what there procedures were, and whether the CEO bloke felt he was bound by them.
You should have a 'lost comms procedure' - an agreed plan for what you'll do if you lose communication. That could be an immediate RTB with the support team doing a Mayday call, or keep going but don't cross X line without Comms with the support team waiting Y hours before making a mayday call, or even fuck it, it'll be fine - but there should be a plan.
The other issue whether the CEO driving it was thinking 'ah, we've lost Comms before but it's been fine, and if I bin it off I've got to refund these idots a million dollars...'.
Its all just so sloppy - everything done to the lowest price, and with the assumption that nothing will go wrong. Might as well have just lined them up on the jetty and shot them...
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
They lost contact frequently which isn't that unusual for deep sea but it's also not good they don't have procedures for it or emergency comms
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
How did this text message thing work? Phones won't work deep under the sea.
I'm just thinking what this 'electrical failure' (theory) is about. Was everything (the boat, those screens, 'communication') all powered by the some poundshop 2 for 1 packs of AAA?
Was there back up in case of failure? Even if it was only 4 packs of AAA.
And yeah, why not just abort?
Tl;dr? Aliens.
Edit. That took me time to write. I see others are asking similar questions
I'm just thinking what this 'electrical failure' (theory) is about. Was everything (the boat, those screens, 'communication') all powered by the some poundshop 2 for 1 packs of AAA?
Was there back up in case of failure? Even if it was only 4 packs of AAA.
And yeah, why not just abort?
Tl;dr? Aliens.
Edit. That took me time to write. I see others are asking similar questions
UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
Holiday of a lifetime.
Yeah, I suppose one scenario would be that he just continued the descent as keeping the money was imperative. It does kind of seem this whole thing has been run on a shoe string needing paying punters to keep the operation afloat (pun lol).
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
And that experience would only cost $50k
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Sounds like how most of the world is run. We live in a lowest-bidder world.
I did wake up in the night and I checked the story and then thought about how much more comfy I was on my shit mattress than their current predicament and that they’d usually be on a better one.
You can’t buy sense I guess.
You can’t buy sense I guess.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
strangling the CEO would have a similar effect and be more satisfying
after that the Tory donor
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
probably, but given how that CEO is being reported he probably tried to pass the time by performing all the TED Talks he planned to give
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Very topical. Imagine Boris as the Prince
If your number is up... despite having been on the sailing before the sinking of the Herald of Free enterprise, we have used ferries many times since.
MS Herald of Free Enterprise - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Is there something about a strong personal aversion that’s unclear here?
No, this is Tory Britain. We actually live in a highest bidder world - as long as the highest bid on the paper trail has been previously arranged with an old school friend who's in on the mutual favour.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
What prospect of the people who built/operated this bought-on-wish sardine can facing manslaughter charges?
Probably none, as there will be watertight (sorry) waivers involved. The company will dust itself off and rebrand as a luxury burial-at-sea experience for CEOs who think their money somehow makes them a fucking viking.
Probably none, as there will be watertight (sorry) waivers involved. The company will dust itself off and rebrand as a luxury burial-at-sea experience for CEOs who think their money somehow makes them a fucking viking.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Or soon to be.
Buried at sea? Not what he had in mind. I wonder what the chances are that this twat of a CEO had reserved himself a storage tank of his very own in some cryogenics facility, with dreams of his second coming upon a grateful world. Way higher than average.
I hope they aren’t dead for three reasons. One, it’s a horrible way for anyone to die. Two, the 19 year old is blameless and had his whole life to live. Three, if they survive, the idiot CEO can be sued into oblivion and possibly jailed. That would be the ideal outcome.
T & P
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And at even the highest level. I believe it was John Glenn, the first American to go into space, who answered the question of how he felt when he first entered the capsule, by replying something like “Well, my life depended on 150,000 pieces of equipment – each bought from the lowest bidder.”
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I too have been on ferries that didn't sink.
When that helicopter crashed at Leicester City, my stepdad's mum was living in Leicester.
Mrs Frank was once in a car that stopped to avoid hitting a cat. The car that overtook hers was then destroyed by a roadside bomb a hundred yards up the road.
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