Billionaire among the missing as tourist submersible exploring Titanic wreck disappears
Billionaire among the missing as tourist submersible exploring Titanic wreck disappears
A submersible that vanished in waters off Canada during a tourism expedition to explore the Titanic could have as little as 70 hours of oxygen left, with a British billionaire among those on board.
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If only these people didn't have so much money to waste, they'd be safe. Karma?
As a silver lining, there is no longer any money in further studying the Titanic. The company that does tours for billionaires is also the only company continuing to research the marine life growing on the Titanic’s wreck.
$250K to do this; I get that yes, the money could be spent elsewhere, but we don't know how much (may be $0, may be $xxM) these people donate. Plus, air travel and generally any travel was initially pioneered by the wealthy. These billionaires doing this and space tourism are paving the way for future generations.
Maybe the snail finally caught them :/
(Just discovered the story from my colleges so I'm 2 days late)
Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that's the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less
This man is not a scientist, engineer, or anyone with any social value whatsoever.
He might fund people who are though (...though I wish we didn't have a system that would need that...)
Well anyone 'could' fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.
That's true but he's among 4 other people who do have social value.
The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.
What 'scientific research' is there that needs to be done on the Titanic in 2023? That's an obvious smokeshow.
In a 2022 interview with CBC News, OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton Rush said the goal of the repeated subaquatic expeditions is to offer researchers an opportunity to analyze changes surrounding the sunken ship, including the development of coral reefs, decay of the ship’s metal and changes to the ocean’s current.