News @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 5mo ago

OceanGate co-founder organising trip to one of world’s deepest sinkholes a year after Titan disaster

www.independent.co.uk Trip planned to one of world’s deepest sinkholes a year after Titan disaster

Guillermo Söhnlein’s Blue Marble Exploration is planning a descent to explore Dean’s Blue Hole

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ooh, can we get Bezos and Musk on this one?
- Not yet. The submarine should do 2-3 tours before we get musk and Bezos in, since then its more likely to break.
  
  Nice, lull the billionaires into a false sense of security....then squish!
All the cool billionaires will do it.

Just saying.
- Not all…
Nice, all the billionaires should get in the idiot squisher
Sounds dangerous. Should take Musk and Bezos along so their genius can save him in case anything goes wrong.
- Don’t forget to take Rupert Murdoch and Julian Sinclair with them.
  
  Throw in Charles koch, the Devos family, her brother erik prince, .... how many can fit in this thing again?
I wouldn't complain about this becoming an annual tradition.
Someone, once again, has the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable
Sounds like this sinkhole is a non-trivial dive, but depth-wise it's only 200 meters. Pressure vessel engineering should not be the limiting factor. Also, for whatever reason, this guy left OceanGate in 2013.
- If they use CF composites again, it doesn’t matter. They have a limited lifespan and will eventually fail from the load cycles of diving and coming back up.
  
  Which is why nobody else uses CF in pressure hulls. It’s a ticking time bomb with no way to properly validate integrity.
  
  They won't. They will use two Triton submersibles, the market leader that builds submersibles for a long time. They are not going to build their own fever dream.
  
  Not to mention the Expedition leader left Ocean gate over 10 years ago.
  
  This is not interesting at all and is click bait that shouldn't even make the news section.
- That's a bit different depth than the Titanic at 12K feet.
What can we do to get this guy to design SpaceX's Mars capsule and then put Elon on it?
Okay, so. How much trouble would we get in if he bought Trump and a couple others a trip with a gofundme?

Or do you think the secret service would stop him?
Livestream it this time. We can record it and watch an implosion in slo-mo.
- You ok? It might be time to take a break; do the whole grass touchy thing. Take a deep breath even.
  
  Maybe it's the arrogant billionaires who need to touch some plant life before they destroy them with their greedy selfish plundering of the planet?
  
  How deep does grass grow?
Trump too small to fit in one of these.
♪Lightning is striking again♪

♪Lightning is striking again and again and again and again♪
Make sure your affairs are in order. Have a nice trip!
Okay guys, maybe the is a contradiction in capitalism that make it collapse. It just append to be toxic masculinity
I don’t think he’s anywhere near finished carving the submersible
Not the wisest idea.
Are they still using COPV’s? The engineer in me needs to know.
Have you or someone you love been killed in an under water vehicle? You may be entitled to compensation!
- Look at this submarine chaser over here
Can ya fit a few more billionares in there this time?

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