Cunts with more money than absolute sense.
A cunting for ‘look at what I can afford bragging rights’ to wankers with more money than sense.
I am of course referring here to those chinless idiots who thought paying a quarter of a million (maybe more) to dive several miles down to the seabed in little more than a cigar tube was a really good idea in return to show off to their mates.
Billionaires who do similar by paying vast sums to strap a rocket to their arse and go to the moon.
I give zero fucks for these people. Only people I feel sorry for are the people who are risking thier lives to find them and those they leave behind.
Selfish cunts.
The Blame Game.
While several multi billionaires are choking to death under the ocean, see links below.
Already, it’s not our fault, its yours!
No it isn’t, its yours.
Isn’t it fucking fabulous to see grown ups acting like toddlers.
It’s not just this, it’s grown people who somehow cannot say “well, I made a right cow of that, how can I put it right”
Sadly, it’s probably way to late for these tragic billionaires, several nations will morn.
Can I take my tongue out of my cheek now, Admin?
Nominated by Chuff Chugger and Jeezum Priest.
Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind.
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Semi-serious question for any clever cunters:
Does anyone genuinely know what’d happen if a human was instantly transported to the bottom of the Marianas Trench?
Would they become flattened, burst or be compressed into something the size of a grape?
I simply can’t fathom(!)
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Have you heard of the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident Mr Cunt Engine? An utterly horrific way to go.
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Evening LL, I just read up on it, thanks for the info.
At least explpsive decompression would’ve meant a lot less suffering than sitting in the dark in mind-bending terror for a couple of days before croaking.
Jesus, the thought of that’s so awful that I can’t even bring myself to say anything dickish about the incident.
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ha ha, I see you changed your mind further down the thread Mr Cunt Engine. welcome back 🙂
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Very good vid on YouTube… A picture speaks too many words, the leftovers look like the worst sort of slaughterhouse nightmare. Body parts blown 30 yards by the catastrophic depressurization. However, life extinct in a millisecond or two.
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All that dough, and they use it to look at an ancient heap of metal. Bone idle jaded feckless cunts.
I am surprised that cunts like Lammy, Sir Lenny, Coogan, Lineker, the BBC, and sundry celeb knobheads haven’t whined about this balls up’s lack of diversity.
‘Submersible disaster not inclusive enough’ says woke bellend Lineker.
‘No sambeaus or trannies on Titanic sub’ complains Phoebe Waller Cunt.
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I’m surprised Lambeau didn’t claim to have a friend on board. A shame Lineker, Branston and B Liar weren’t there too. All rich enough. It could have been worse, might’ve been on 1st day of a season ticket… .
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I read a book by a bloke who served aboard the Polaris subs.
They’ve suffered a terrible end and RIP to them.
On the flip side, a nuclear submarine – think how well they are built – operates at 300m below sea level. Have you seen the state of that pile of shit they attempted to go 4 miles down in? And theres no light down there so you have to watch light up camera images from inside. So why go down there in the first place? You may as well of watched it on a ROV from the safety of the surface. They took a huge risk for literally zero benefit here. Baffling
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Bragging rights at the billionaires cunt club that’s all.
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As a qualified aerospace engineer, I’m wondering how the fuck the authorities didn’t step in and stop the bellend owner before he killed someone.
Fuck me, it used to take weeks for a single bit of wing structure I’d designed to be checked, go through the stress department computers, work out the tolerance stackups and then through final scrutineering by the chief engineer (that was how it was done on the A380, A350 and A400M, nothing was left to even a tiny bit of chance).
Utterly ridiculous.
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100%. Did I read somewhere the submarine wasn’t safety certified because they literally never thought anyone would be thick as fuck to do something like this so they’ve never legislated it or something?
Reminds me of the fishing trip bloke I knew of in South Wales who took a tourist mackerel fishing trip out in a force 9 gale. why, why, why
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Watch the video in the link I put up a lot earlier in this comments section. The chinless wonder CEO has a insurance disclaimer report- basically saying it’s a pile of shit and you have to sign your life away (which looks like he literally did) he joked about it and said ‘where do I sign?’
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Liability waivers are common devices when the public decide to engage in activities deemed ‘outside normal parameters’ of anything beyond sedentary secretarial work.
As a P.A.D.I. instructor I had my students fill out the stardard full libility waiver which (in theory) would absolve me of any liability should a student suffer injury or death as long as I could PROVE that the training schedule had been applied, monitored and tested rigourously and to the letter. They were 90% ‘high net worths’ with more than enough facility to sue my arse into the stone age should I fuck up.
A few questioned it but none refused to complete, date and sign it. I certainly questioned it when I was first presented with one of these and a biro and at that point you have to ask yourself “OK this is where it gets serious, how badly do I want/need to do this?”
I doubt such a document would in any way trump UK law but what it did do was present people who’d never contemplated anything more dangerous in their lives than a spot of light pruning with a focus point in their thinking and risk assessment processes; a stark and immediate primer regarding human mortality to which they will be required to pay constant attention and I even more so!
Y’ wanna do this kinda stuff? Well acceptance of risk goes hand in hand it’s just a question of degree, you might die, there’s no dodging it.
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Rich CUNTS always know better than you.
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You at BAe Broughton..Filton…?
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RAT (FOX) News is reporting the names of the passengers and crew.
Suleman Dawood
Shahzada Dawood
Stockton Rush
Paul-Henry Nargeolet
Hamish Harding
2 rich Pakis, a former Frog Naval officer, a Jock “Adventurer” and some pretentious upper class twit.
Jesus H. Christ Himself!
I wouldn’t get in a fucking dinghy with those guys. I wouldn’t trust any of them to drive a bus over a bridge across the Thames.
They’re out of their depth in a bathtub.
A completely predictable tragedy.
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True General. It’s like Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year underwater.🤣
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On the subject of cunts with loads of money and zero sense, what this bird says about Henery Hewitt is hilarious and true.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1671199958215667737
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Evening Norman, that’s Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter, isn’t it?
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Think it is Thomas.
Evening, pal.👍
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Interesting to note, that if you’re a half chat, they always state they are blick and all the ‘struggles’ that go with that colour.
That closet puff Hamilton is no more blick than he is White…..but because he can be heard if he says he’s blick, then he’s blick.
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Money money money till it goes funny then your fucking sunk. Jokes aside (which of course means I’m a sick bastard) from reading about that submersible, doubt if the thing was safe in a paddling pool. If an official enquiry is held the resulting report should be interesting reading.
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There was an official report in the form of a disclaimer that was supplied to the CEO who is shown on video mocking it and saying ‘where do I sign?’
I suppose unlike most of us, insurance is a pre-requisite. You break your leg and you can’t earn for 12 weeks you’re financially fucked. A load of billionaires however would be….meh! Who needs insurance…fuck me I OWN the insurance company!
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Sounds a bit jabby.
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All was going well, until Titan hit an iceberg on the way up. Various chants of
“I want my money back now,” would certainly have been said at this point. But at least in 1912 you could, if you were lucky, & or a woman get offered a lifeboat. Not in this case however! I guess the rest is history!
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In this case all was going well until they entered the water.
I bet there was a disclaimer:
All purchases final. No refunds or exchanges.
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Wonder if some wag on the mini-sub has played the ‘Jaws’ music on their phone to lighten th mood?🤣
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Oh now Norman.
That’s a bridge too far, or an abyss too deep.
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Or ‘Yellow Submarine’ or that Celine Dion theme tune?
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Don’t, please.
Not Celine Dion.
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Death would bring welcome relief from a Celine Dion earworm…or Octopus’s Garden for that matter.
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Speaking to a diver who’d done the Red Sea thing and he said their dive boat used to pipe the Jaws theme as it’s recall signal via a thru-hull speaker! Yep, that’d do it! Fucking brilliant…
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As I said earlier, it’s my contention that the DIY submersible imploded less than two hours after initial launch.
If it’s any consolation, I doubt they would have been aware.
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Are Nintendo Game Boy hand controls waterproof? Well there’s a consideration for the next expedition. ‘Lessons will be learned’ etc etc.
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As I tribute to the unfortunate five, I have removed my car’s steering wheel and replaced it with the joystick from a woodgrain Atari 2600.
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You’re all heart, Thomas.
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I expect the wholesale griefjacking and ‘tributes’ machine has already started on social media.
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Even before death was declared, Norman.
Blood sucking grief vampires to the left, grief-stricken relatives to the right.
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Better to go that way Jeezum than freeze to death at the bottom of the ocean
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Just messaged the Mrs about this and called them raft cunts, my phone is a sarcastic bastard at times.
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Anybody would have to be mad to get into it, never mind go underwater in it.
Obvious that this sumersible was made of absolute crap. Del Boy’s van would be safer.
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The Blue Peter team, or Pugwash, could’ve done better. Looks like those daft vids on making a pizza oven out of an old propane tank.
Muff diving is safer, and I always wear appropriate suit.
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These may be reckless deaths but you never know when your number is up. I read about this bird in my local rag. She was a health and fitness nut, always down the gym always ate healthily etc etc. She was a member of a scuba diving club and they went on a diving holiday to Greece or somewhere like that.
Anyway she got up before everyone else one morning and decided to have breakfast al fresco. So she sat on the terrace, under the shade of a tree, and gave her order to the waiter. ( no doubt something healthy) While he was away the tree fell on her head and fucking killed her! What a cunt eh? Who could see that coming?
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You never know when The Grim Reaper is going to strike Freddie. 💀
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I have an implanted tracker on Shaun.
Oh, hello Dad!
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The Grim Reaper is going to strike Freddie?
Not yet I hope, Cuntalugs.
That fucker owes me twenty quid.
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I don’t owe any cunt shit.
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Who could see that coming?
The cunt who chopped down the tree.
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Getting into a death trap tho is like really increasing your chances….I mean fuck me I can think of safer things to do. I am sure the grim reaper didn’t have all those individuals time of death on the same day at the same time doing the same thing in his diary for that day.
There’s an awful lot of things that are beyond your control so your time is up…..getting into a sub made in a shed and go to the bottom of the ocean manned by unqualified idiots really is asking for you to die.
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They got into it because it was unsafe and high risk. They did it for a buzz as their wealth brings so much security that everyday life is mundane. that level of wealth means the uber rich can pay their way out of just about any situation that arises but no amount of wedge can defy the laws of physics. tragic? no. tragic is when shit is thrust upon you beyond your control. they were in control of their destiny. they rolled the dice and they lost.
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Descending in a shed couldn’t be much more dangerous.
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How dare you insult sheds ! Sheds are a bastion of the over 50’s, we can escape the bullshit droning of the Mrs about the latest cunt doing cunt things on cunt TV.
Plus you can knock one out when the noisy cunt neighbour is doing yoga.
CUNT.
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US Coast Guard press conference confirms they found wreckage from a catastrophic failure and have notified the families all parties are deceased.
No word on recovery of the bodies other than the undersea environment is “extremely unforgiving.”
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About as unforgiving as Prince Phillip when he found out that Princess Diana was up the duff with a mu§lim baby and had her bumped off by the SAS in that Parisien tunnel.
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And they don’t have a sieve big enough.
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Sorry, that was tasteless.
I’m better than that.
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that was playing on you for 12 minutes eh 🙂
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There certainly won’t be a lot left of them……nearly vapourised under that kind of pressure
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Put it in the curry.
Now you know what’s wrong with the curry!
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The hagfish ate a hearty meal when the tin can was opened. Didnt even have to chew, just suck it up.
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I see the BBC are referring to these feckless idiots as ‘true explorers’
No….a true explorer is one who explores and then comes back to further our understanding of the world. Someone who has an education in what they are exploring, someone who has had training in the rigours expected of them…extremes of heat or cold or sand storms for example. Not people with so much money they don’t really know what to spend it on
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They got into it because it was unsafe and high risk. They did it for a buzz as their wealth brings so much security that everyday life is mundane. that level of wealth means the uber rich can pay their way out of just about any situation that arises but no amount of wedge can defy the laws of physics. tragic? no. tragic is when shit is thrust upon you beyond your control. they were in control of their destiny. they rolled the dice and they lost.
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Nicely summed up there Cunter
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Indeed, CST.
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I saw a ladyboy stick a 12 inch dildo up her arse once.
Travel broadens the mind.
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…and the sphincter apparently
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I have no sympathy for Stockton Rush whatsoever. He repeatedly ignored warnings from people far more qualified than him about how unsafe that sub was and paid the ultimate price for his arrogance and hubris. This was completely avoidable.
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I mean, he used an Xbox controller as the steering wheel ffs. Come on.
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and carbon fibre for the main body. I mean it’s strong if you’re using it to replace steel in a racing car…..but that would be the first to go under that pressure. Carbon fibre is strong if designed to take a force at one pre-determined angle, so in F1 suspension it can be very strong if you impact a wall at the angle you would normally hit a wall, but hit it at an angle different to that it will simply shatter to dissipate energy. As there would be pressure all over and at every angle at that depth, or even before going too far down, and the carbon would simply shatter
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The xBox controller was the only piece of kit that had undergone any sort of “design process” or “quality control.” The rest was about as travel-worthy as a Trabant.
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“…I mean, he used an Xbox controller as the steering wheel ffs. Come on…”
…’cause they don’t break do they? …can knock fuckin’ nails in with them bastards … so why is their a pile of dead FuxBox and Twat Station controllers in the cupboard next to the telly? I taught the eldest to take the fuckers apart when they’d killed one after another as I was sick to death of autopsying the things. Wafer thin pcb’s, cheapest componentry the chinks could source, hyper fragile micro USB connectors.
Probably thought it would be fun and a real treat to pass it to the paying guests and let them swing it around in the water column!
“… As there would be pressure all over and at every angle at that depth, or even before going too far down, and the carbon would simply shatter…”
If it was a solid fabrication it would be fine, ie incompressible, but if there were voids in the laying up or any delamination or enclosed hollows as part of the design then it would definitely be vulnerable to the crush.
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he openly bragged and quoted General MacArthurs one about people being remembered for the rules they break…..’and I’ve broken a few rules’ he said. fine if you are designing a revolutionary prototype sandwich toaster, sheer idiocy if referring to a craft designed to take passengers 4 km under water
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https://convert-units.info/pressure/standard-atmosphere/350
So over 5000 pounds per square inch pressure at the bottom.
Even half way down the pressure would be more than enough to turn the mad humans on board that rather ridiculous vessel into…meat paste?
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Puree.
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It’s pitch dark down there.I mean it ! No light whatsoever!
So how did these asphyxiated idiots think that they were going to SEE a fucking thing?! Of course, it would be the 1.5 v Raleigh bicycle lamp attached to the “built-in-an-enthusiast’s-garden shed” vessel with duck tape!
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Here’s a thought. Every man has a duty to be there to protect and provide for his family (if he is lucky enough to have one). Any man engaging in reckless acts knows that he is at risk of failing in that duty. if you’ve no dependents and nobody to love or who loves you then do whatever you want to get your kicks as long as it doesn’t affect others. if you have then man the fuck up and stop thrill seeking like some spunk bubble on his first 125
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Ah yes…..your first 125, back in the days when you were indestructible and had no fear. I got loads of bruises but no broken bones. My mate got his head crushed under the rear wheel of an artic.
Long time ago but RIP. Wasn’t my time.
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The thrill of danger is in every man, surely CST?
I have two sons but without riding big motorbikes very quickly, life would be boring as shit and my bogs wouldn’t want to not enjoy life..
I will concede, however, that at the age of 51, I don’t ride anywhere near as dangerously as I did 30 years ago.
Fast motorcycles are way better than sex, an adage Stuart Lubbock should’ve adhered to.
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My bogs!
I meant my boys.
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it is defo in every man and that’s why we need to be able to control it. I shudder at the thought of the utterly fucking stupid things I did when I was half my age. take risks but assess them first. if you got folk dependent on you then re-assess. if the potential for death is high, don’t go there.
yeah, poor old Stuart should have gone to Brands to watch superbikes that weekend
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The thrill of danger in every man Thomas? Mostly I’d agree but over recent years I’ve met young men in their twenties who get their thrills from computer games and say things like; “Ooh no, I never break the speed limit on the road.” I admit though I gave up the bikes when I woke up in hospital with a fractured skull. I wasn’t frightened off them, rather I decided I preferred the company of the girl friend who raced down to see me. As my wife of forty-nine years she is in the next room and I feel I made the right decision. As you’re in aviation have you tried a light aircraft? If so you’ll know the smilarity to the bike when you pull a steep turn with 60 degrees of bank, the throttle to the firewall and the stick hard back. I once read someone’s opinion that riding a motorcycle and flying a light aircraft were about equally risky. I can only say I felt much safer at 2,000′ in the Cessna than I did on two wheels on the public highway.
So enjoy yourself and take care Thomas. I want to keep reading your posts!
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“…Every man has a duty to be there to protect and provide for his family (if he is lucky enough to have one). Any man engaging in reckless acts knows that he is at risk of failing in that duty….”
Couldn’t have put it better… I was at the point where I was getting invited to do a bit of caving, tech wrecking, people started coming into the shop asking about doing Nitrox, rebreathers were starting to become commercially available, invite from a mate in Norway to go ice diving with him … so tempting … but then … the Missus appeared … followed by pregnancy and birth and at that point… OK this is a critical fork in the road. Do I? Don’t I?
Easiest decision I ever made, no more overheads, 25mtr limit from now on, always carried a pony cyl + reg as bailout and caving can fuck right off!
Still fancy ice diving though …. I mean … just fucking WOW!!!
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These little buggers don’t go below 300 M and cost 4 billion a pop.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought-class_submarine
What the fuck where they thinking about going down 3000M in some home made death trap.
Bell ends .
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the Russian titanium hulled subs are something else when it comes to dive depth. the Mike class can do 1km. makes vanguard look a little silly based purely on this attribute
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Complex systems won’t survive the competence crisis https://twitter.com/OceanGate/status/1236722117024022529
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…”thought leaders”…??? What the bollocks does that even mean? If I was fucked at -12,000ft I’m wanting a 50yr old white submariner Chief Eng with 30yrs service not some witless Doris trying to conduct a ‘mindfullness’ class!
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Id like to be
Under the sea
In a octopus garden
In the shade
Resting our head
On the seabed
Because we know
We cant be found
I don’t Live in a a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, anymore
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Too soon ? … nahhhh!
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Why is this so interesting?
200 comments (perhaps a record number?) about something really quite irrelevant to anyone’s experience seems a bit odd to me.
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“Why is this so interesting ?
Excess exposed Ewan
What could possibly go wrong, even though the vessel might be held together with elastic bands and epoxy.
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Excess exposed in what way new that makes it so interesting?
This is a rather odd subject to become “viral”. Perhaps, as my own pointless comment demonstrates, it has become interesting due to its own “gravity”
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Smoke and mirrors pal.
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I don’t know what you mean “smoke and mirrors”.
Nothing deceptive involved, and pretty simply put – a fairly mundane accident. Less interesting than many a mountaineering death, which is mostly unremarkable in the news, even though more relatable.
Why the interest I wonder? The absurd coverage reminds me of the spurious and weird Nicola Bulley reporting, which went on for weeks. There was nothing much to say there either.
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Whenever a story like this is over reported I always wonder which news is being under reported. I believe the media attention this saga got was a smokescreen for far bigger issues.
The week that chemical train derailed in idaho and caused an epic environmental event that will have decades of legacy the big story was Chinese balloons and crashed ufos.
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Probably a made up load of bollocks to pacify the plebs into thinking that a little part of the elite has ironically died.
I’m calling bullshit.
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I don’t think a couple of billionaires makes a dent in that elite.
It really isn’t any sort of psy-op.
Get out more.
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Get a shitty DJ at the wake singing we all don’t live in a yellow Submarine.
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I think today’s modern news coverage has blown this up, because it blows everything up these days. Far bigger vessels have met disaster and with much larger death tolls. But the way the BBC, Sky and the like are going on, you’d think it was a replay of MS Herald of Free Enterprise or even the Titanic itself.
And referring to the five dead as ‘true explorers’ is ridiculous. Exploring a world famous shipwreck that was discovered over 30 years ago? They will be caling them great humanitarians next. Another horrible modern media trait. Anybody who dies – good or bad, gifted or useless – is automatically canonised. Nobody made them go down there in that dodgy contraption.
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“… Far bigger vessels have met disaster and with much larger death tolls. …”
Quite so; anyone ever even heard of the M.V. Wilhelm Gustlov? No of course you haven’t. Ask yourself why.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deadliest-disaster-sea-happened-75-years-ago-yet-its-barely-known-why-180974077/
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Oops… ” Gustloff “
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I saw “Womens'” and for some reason my mind understood “Womens’ Institute”… How lovely to have home-made jam and scones on board – then I re-read…
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So so so much wrong with this shonky piece of bathyspheric bollockery.
Some thoughts…
From the first announcement of its loss I said to m’self… “they’re fucked, no way back from that depth”
Been trying to find the tech specs for this contraption but can I fuck. Some corporate promo vids but nothing of substance. Apparently there are patent claims made by this company so I’ll have a dig through US Patent Office filings to see if it throws any light on the spes. For now I’ve only got the Mk1 eyeball to go by but first off…
Where’s the emergency flotation/lift bags for bouyancy at the surface in the event of it having to make an emergency ascent and wait if its mother ship has lost its location?
Worryingly for me would be the lack of any means to open the hatch from inside. Fucking WHY?? By doing so you’ve immediately set the stop watch running on ANY rescue scenario. Fuck me they did NOT think this through.
Drop weights? I did spot what look to be a bunch of eyeleted lead blocks lying on the skids in one profile shot at the surface on its launcher but no connection to the hull I could see.
I can’t conceive that this wasn’t incorporated as its the “get me outta here” sine qua non of submersible design. So that points to the question “What release mechanism was used? Electro-mag? hydraulic?” and the next question is “What back up/failsafe release machanism was installed? Accoustically triggered frangible/explosive bolts that can also be activated from the surface ship if necessary.
And my next question after that is “Was there a ‘fail to safe’ element incorprated such as a galvanic ‘trip wire’ release, basically a corrodable element that starts to degrade the moment it hits seawater and acts as a timed element/ fuse. For instance, after 24hrs submersion and regardless of circumstance it WILL drop the lead and bring you up. (could be dangerous if entrapped though)
Why has all comms and telemetry failed? Not so much as a sonar ‘pinger’ has been heard? BACK UP SYSTEM/S ??????????????? w.t.f.?
Apparently the hull has been designed to work at 13,100ft. OK… but has it been tested to that depth? Where and how long ago under what conditions? Maintenence logs please.
To me that seems a very marginal ‘safe working load’ being that its projected operating depth will be circa 12.500ft. I’d want at least 75-100% over-capacity. If I was certifying this thing I’d want it taken to 20,000ft for at least the duration of its breathing gas supply.
Speaking of which, what gas reclaim/CO2 scrubbing/O2 injection system was utilised here? Did it have its own dedicated power supp? Can it be manually overidden in the event of battery fail?
All this and so much more.
“…Semi-serious question for any clever cunters:
Does anyone genuinely know what’d happen if a human was instantly transported to the bottom of the Marianas Trench?..”
Well the first thing to go would be both eardrums resulting in swirling vertigo followed a split second later by every sinus space in your head imploding taking out your optic nerves. Any cavities under dental fillings are crushed in, your thoracic, abdominal and digestive cavites and gas pockets forced into a space 1/50th its designed operating volume.
If you managed somehow to draw a second breath that wasn’t water the partial pressure of O2 in that breath at that depth would be deeply toxic producing immediate HPNS (high pressure nervous syndrome) = convulsion, pulmonary failure > death.
Breathing bog standard 21% normal air below just 60-70mtrs is extremely dangerous because of its toxicity/elevated partial pressure.
Nitrogen narcosis can occur at even shallower depth (30-35mtrs) Knicknamed the “Martini Effect ” because its like suddenly necking a double Martini.
Scenarios…?
It lost contact at 1hr45m into its descent so about 2/3rds of the way down = 8,000ft. If all motive power was lost it would be picked up by the Gulf Stream (?) which runs at 1-2knots so every hour will extend the search radius. If they’d managed to get to the surface by dropping weights they would almost certainly have been found by now.
Catastrophic and sudden hull failure – I guess I’ve covered that above. Nasty but quick. There would have been a surface debris trail.
Slow but significant leak that couldn’t be sealed – The ingress would cause the internal air pressure to rise as it attempts to equalise itself to the ambient external pressure. By the time their breathing air was at 6-7 bar the elevated ppO2 would probably induce convulsions, pulmonary failure and death within 15mins.
Aerosolised water ingress – There is no heating system on board so you’re looking at hypothermia. Ambient temp of water at that depth = 2-3degC which equates to death in around 1-2hrs maybe 3 for a fat fucker. This would be my preferred exit in that circumstance.
Fire on board? – well… work it out for yourselves…
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A very fine piece of writing there, CC.
Nice one 👍🏿
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Under the current circumstances,that is a very well thought out and very erudite ,I can see you have used what most haven’t ,namely a good degree of intelligence in going through this no matter how morbid the subject nature,very cohegently reasoned and quite simple to follow in layman s terms.
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I’m not going to join in the debate about having more money than sense, etc or cunting these poor individuals or the wealthy in general. These were human beings – yes, two of them were billionaires, but I have heard nothing bad reported about them as individuals.
I have to say that no amount of money would have induced me to enter that claustrophobic claptrap submarine. It looks like an oil drum on roller skates. It’s controlled by a games console, ffs. Possibly the passengers failed in their due diligence, but they were confronted, it seems, by a snake oil salesman of the highest ability, god rest his soul. I call him a snake oil salesman, but he was more of a monomaniac, a driven man who had absolute faith in his craft, and a victim to his own hubris. Its a shame he took others with him on his one way trip to destruction.
The safety of this “submarine” had already been called into question. Concerns centered around the plexiglass viewing port, and I bet that was the source of the implosion. It was not certified to those depths. An employee , a highly experienced marine engineer, called the company out on this. He was sacked and given an hour to leave.
I would love to go into space. But there is no way I would do it until the technology was proven and tested and at least as safe as commercial air-flight. But we also need adventurers prepared to take a risk if we are to get anywhere. But these adventurers should not put anyone at risk except themselves. Its the commercialisation of this adventurism, the selling of tickets to inexperienced members of the public who might not appreciate what they are getting into, which in my view, borders on the immoral.
At least their deaths were instantaneous. Suffocating in the freezing dark of that oil drum on the bed of the Atlantic, with the CO2 levels rising and causing delirium, would have been a far worse fate.
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“…Concerns centered around the plexiglass viewing port,…”
Correct MMCM, but then they actually used it’s size (largest ever fitted or something) as its u.s.p. and marketed it thus.
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I hear Cardi B of all people is gobbing off about how one of the dead’s stepsons is behaving terribly.
Well, this known troublemaker and gobshite with form is hardly well known for her own good behaviour, eh?
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Quite frankly, I don’t blame the stepson. I’d do the same, get some music and booze down you.
In the meantime, search for channel-swimming firefighter Iain Hughes has been called off. He was doing it for charity. The world’s priorities are wrong, but us ISACers know that!
The only person in the Curry’s 10/6d contraption I feel sorry for is yhe young lad. Truly, a waste of a life.
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Big time. the lad only went on it to please his dad . he had massive reservations apparently. what sort of father would firstly get in the fucking thing and secondly get in it with his son?
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Who is Cardi B?
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it’s a small honey bee. normally prefixed with brown banded. Almost extinct in uk
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