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[FrostyWinnipeg]

22 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

Quite disturbing, using the final resting place of 1500 people as a tourist destination

Research is one thing - tourism is altogether different

It is what it is whether its the Arizona memorial or Auschwitz. 

[Mark H.]

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

It is what it is whether its the Arizona memorial or Auschwitz. 

The lessons that Titanic has to teach us - will.not be learned by viewing the wreck. Auschwitz, on the other hand ..

[Tracker]

Search Crews Detect Underwater Noises In Hunt For Missing Submersible

Officials estimate the crew of five trapped inside could run out of oxygen by Thursday morning.

A Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises during the ongoing search for the missing Titan submersible, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday morning.

Rescue crews are desperately searching for the vessel, which vanished midway through an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic on Sunday morning. Any recovery is a race against the clock, as officials estimate the crew of five trapped inside could run out of oxygen by Thursday morning.
The Coast Guard said remote operated vehicles, or ROVs, were searching for the Titan, a minivan-sized craft, and some had been moved to a new search area after the Canadian plane detected the sounds.

 

[Fatty Liver]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

The Coast Guard said remote operated vehicles, or ROVs, were searching for the Titan, a minivan-sized craft, and some had been moved to a new search area after the Canadian plane detected the sounds.

 

Edited June 21, 2023 by Fatty Liver

[Tracker]

As of 5:00 CDT, more banging noises were detected but the submersible has only 10-12 hours of oxygen left.

[bustamente]

Looks pretty bleak for finding the passengers of this submersible alive, more likely this adventure become their coffin.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

25 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Looks pretty bleak for finding the passengers of this submersible alive, more likely this adventure become their coffin.

Sad but true.

[Tracker]

At this point, the mission becomes recovery, not rescue.

[FrostyWinnipeg]

56 minutes ago, Tracker said:

At this point, the mission becomes recovery, not rescue.

Looks like its over now.

US Coast Guard says debris field has been discovered near Titanic submersible search area

Edited June 22, 2023 by FrostyWinnipeg

[Tracker]

7 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Looks like its over now.

US Coast Guard says debris field has been discovered near Titanic submersible search area

That, by itself, does not constitute a definitive outcome, but with the elapsed time it does.  It looks like the previously unaddressed concerns doomed the submersible costing lives of innocent people. 

BTW: did you know that all of the pools on the Titanic are still filled with water?

[Rod Black]

16 minutes ago, Tracker said:

BTW: did you know that all of the pools on the Titanic are still filled with water?

Salt water pools. 

[HardCoreBlue]

2 hours ago, bustamente said:

Looks pretty bleak for finding the passengers of this submersible alive, more likely this adventure become their coffin.

Gawd damn that's creepily unsettlingly morbid.

Taken from Kait Gradner's twitter feed:

 

 

[Tracker]

If memory serves, Clive Cussler wrote a novel a while back about this kind of scenario.

[bustamente]

Reports have the submersible imploding, if they were not already dead the implosion would of been swift in their demise.

[Rod Black]

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

Reports have the submersible imploding, if they were not already dead the implosion would have been swift in their demise.

I heard it would be microseconds. 

[iHeart]

what happened to you Zuckerberg you used to be cool

https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1671993974368641026

[FrostyWinnipeg]

4 hours ago, iHeart said:

what happened to you Zuckerberg you used to be cool

https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1671993974368641026

I agree with Meta, shouldn’t have to pay. They drive people towards news web sites.

[iHeart]

Just now, FrostyWinnipeg said:

I agree with Meta, shouldn’t have to pay. They drive people towards news web sites.

wait that's the issue? CBC and Bell Media is charging meta too much to have their stuff on facebook? social media used to be a fun escape then bigots and people who refused to accept science had to go and ruin it

[Tracker]

Conservatives Are Now Blaming The Titanic Sub Tragedy On 'Wokeness'

On Sunday, the submersible Titan went missing far off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in the North Atlantic ocean. The tourist expedition, led by OceanGate, a company that runs submersible trips for tourism and exploration, was supposed to take five men to view the shipwreck of the Titanic, nearly 13,000 feet below sea level.

A search for the sub, which included OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush onboard, is now over after debris from the vessel was located following an apparent “catastrophic implosion,” the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.

As the U.S. and Canadian governments shelled out funds in the rescue and recovery effort, the media reported on a series of safety concerns that most likely led to the sub going missing.

But conservatives had another theory. Could the sub have disappeared because OceanGate’s CEO went “woke”?

Wokeness has become a new boogeyman for the right, and no one is safe — even in a case like this, with five people believed to have lost their lives in the deep sea.

Being woke once meant being aware of social injustices, but conservatives have appropriated it to refer to anything that they disagree with or that has a hint of liberalism. It’s often used as a not-very-subtle replacement for racial slurs.
On Wednesday afternoon, Fox News’ Jesse Watters suggested on the network’s show “The Five” that the men may have perished in the sub because Rush was too woke.

“There’s been lawsuits, there’s been accusations about slashing regulations. He’s quoted as saying he didn’t hire a bunch of 50-year-old white guys with military experience because he didn’t want his vessels to be not inspirational for a younger generation,” Watters said, referring to the OceanGate CEO previously stating that he didn’t want to hire older white men.

[Rod Black]

5 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Conservatives Are Now Blaming The Titanic Sub Tragedy On 'Wokeness'

On Sunday, the submersible Titan went missing far off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in the North Atlantic ocean. The tourist expedition, led by OceanGate, a company that runs submersible trips for tourism and exploration, was supposed to take five men to view the shipwreck of the Titanic, nearly 13,000 feet below sea level.

A search for the sub, which included OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush onboard, is now over after debris from the vessel was located following an apparent “catastrophic implosion,” the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.

As the U.S. and Canadian governments shelled out funds in the rescue and recovery effort, the media reported on a series of safety concerns that most likely led to the sub going missing.

But conservatives had another theory. Could the sub have disappeared because OceanGate’s CEO went “woke”?

Wokeness has become a new boogeyman for the right, and no one is safe — even in a case like this, with five people believed to have lost their lives in the deep sea.

Being woke once meant being aware of social injustices, but conservatives have appropriated it to refer to anything that they disagree with or that has a hint of liberalism. It’s often used as a not-very-subtle replacement for racial slurs.
On Wednesday afternoon, Fox News’ Jesse Watters suggested on the network’s show “The Five” that the men may have perished in the sub because Rush was too woke.

“There’s been lawsuits, there’s been accusations about slashing regulations. He’s quoted as saying he didn’t hire a bunch of 50-year-old white guys with military experience because he didn’t want his vessels to be not inspirational for a younger generation,” Watters said, referring to the OceanGate CEO previously stating that he didn’t want to hire older white men.

Source? 

[Tracker]

James Cameron speaks about the loss of the Titan submersible: https://9gag.com/gag/ap9YQon

9 minutes ago, Rod Black said:

Source? 

https://www.alternet.org/Bank/titan-sub/

[Rod Black]

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

James Cameron speaks about the loss of the Titan submersible: https://9gag.com/gag/ap9YQon

Thanks. The title actually was “James Cameron explains what happened with titan”. 

[JCon]

14 minutes ago, Tracker said:

 

https://www.alternet.org/Bank/titan-sub/

And the NY Post ran a story about it too.

[Tracker]

2 minutes ago, JCon said:

And the NY Post ran a story about it too.

The right wing, led by Faux, is so desperately bereft of substance to manufacture rage about that they are seizing on anything, no matter how moronic, to try to create furore. 

[Tracker]