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Tragic yes, not allowed? Don't be silly. Would you ban climbing Everest or similar peaks? Would you ban the Isle of Man TT? If people want to risk their lives that is on them. We all have a choice.
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Tragic yes, not allowed? Don't be silly. Would you ban climbing Everest or similar peaks? Would you ban the Isle of Man TT? If people want to risk their lives that is on them. We all have a choice.
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Probably in the sea
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IIRC it's the same one the BBC did a documentary on a few months back, they've had issues in the past with buoyancy systems etc and I think it's designed so that one of the weights dissolves over time (something like after a day it'll reach neutral buoyancy, then get lighter), they'd also had something like an electrical failure and a failure of the control systems where they'd accidently reversed the inputs.Just heard this on the wireless and had to go away and read up on it, they've been out of contact for what, eight hours now? Surely this isn't going to end well
So whilst I doesn't sound like it'll end well, there is a chance that in the next day or so it'll bob to the surface with some very annoyed, but relieved and stinky people on board.
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found the show.
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In the area of the Titanic I think
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Potentially!
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Did they ever catch that iceberg?
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food for though :
Are you saying this is like Jaws and the Iceberg has come back for round 2?
‘Iceberg 3D’ up next.
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The Fast and The Freezing - Atlantic Drift.
No way they are going to get them out.
Anybody saying this stuff should be banned... That's ridiculous. What would life be with no risk? Especially when it's yours to choose!
Unfortunately this is a high risk situation and things can and do go wrong. Feel for those people. 96 hours must be horrendous. The experts probably know thier fate.
So tragic. But thems the risks. They would have been fully briefed. Though I accept it's one of those you never think it's gonna happen to You!
Anybody saying this stuff should be banned... That's ridiculous. What would life be with no risk? Especially when it's yours to choose!
Unfortunately this is a high risk situation and things can and do go wrong. Feel for those people. 96 hours must be horrendous. The experts probably know thier fate.
So tragic. But thems the risks. They would have been fully briefed. Though I accept it's one of those you never think it's gonna happen to You!
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Sincerely hope they get rescued, but I won't hold my breath.
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I reread this and seriously, no pun intended, it's a phrase I use a lot.
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I reread this and seriously, no pun intended, it's a phrase I use a lot.
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We're all waiting to die anyway.
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Right now I'm thinking of that sad scene on the Titanic movie where all the ghosts of the people onboard are all in the atrium clapping, as 5 new friends join them
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Right now I'm thinking of that sad scene on the Titanic movie where all the ghosts of the people onboard are all in the atrium clapping, as 5 new friends join them
Maybe they got distracted by a small blue shiny thing.
Since when has that ever been the policy of the UK police? People are arrested on a daily basis for smoking weed.
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Subs don't operate at those depths or anything close to it, it wouldn't survive the pressure anyhow