To be fair though, part of the passengers were a father & son participating in a sort of father & son trip in which the son was adamant that he didn’t want to go down in the submarine. He was literally scared. But the father dragged the son down with him, and sadly the son perished inside something he feared.
Billionaires like Larry Connor pursuing these expeditions with experimental submersibles seem to be driven more by ego, novelty-seeking, and a reckless desire to conquer challenges that provide little scientific value, rather than any practical purpose that hasn’t already been accomplished. Their decisions to risk their lives in this manner over something so well-explored is stupid and unnecessary.
Touch grass.
Not in this case. The new sub is actually being built by a competent company, not morons.
Some day, the now-competent company will get ruined by boomer investors that know nothing about submarines and it’ll be oceangate 2 electric bugalo.
Investors aren’t going to get into submarines unless they already are interested in them.
You can’t really be killed by both at the same time, unless somehow the guillotine blade lands on your neck as soon as the submarine implodes. But even then, only one of them will claim a kill to its name.
So this is a case where we can’t just have both. And I’m always the one who references that commercial in comments.
