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[News] Missing submersible.
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Nottseagull
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Ironic post.
The debris could have been from the Titanic.
Oh, did you assume it was found floating? Best not to make sarcastic comments when you're not in possession of the facts.
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How mad is this?
The family of Hamish Harding, the billionaire missing aboard the Titan submersible, has condemned the “extremely bad taste” of a submarine-themed ball held at his former Cambridge college hours before oxygen on the craft was expected to run out.
Pembroke College students attended an “Into the Depths” ball, themed on under-sea exploration, and sang sea shanties and reportedly danced to Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On – the theme from the 1997 film Titanic – on Wednesday night.
The college said that by the time the OceanGate Titanic expedition had become an international rescue mission, it was too late to change its theme.
Kathleen Cosnett, 69, Mr Harding’s cousin, said it was “unbelievable” that the college had gone ahead with an event in such “extremely bad taste”.
“That’s terrible – polite courtesy has missed out on quite a few generations,” she told The Telegraph. “Ridiculous. They would have had a record of him studying there, I would have thought.
“They ought to think more than twice, and show consideration. Perhaps we are lucky they didn’t play Yellow Submarine. But perhaps they are not old enough for that.”
Full story (subscription required): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...-pembroke-college-host-submarine-themed-ball/
Free but it's the Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hours-sub-alumnus-Hamish-Harding-ran-air.html
The family of Hamish Harding, the billionaire missing aboard the Titan submersible, has condemned the “extremely bad taste” of a submarine-themed ball held at his former Cambridge college hours before oxygen on the craft was expected to run out.
Pembroke College students attended an “Into the Depths” ball, themed on under-sea exploration, and sang sea shanties and reportedly danced to Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On – the theme from the 1997 film Titanic – on Wednesday night.
The college said that by the time the OceanGate Titanic expedition had become an international rescue mission, it was too late to change its theme.
Kathleen Cosnett, 69, Mr Harding’s cousin, said it was “unbelievable” that the college had gone ahead with an event in such “extremely bad taste”.
“That’s terrible – polite courtesy has missed out on quite a few generations,” she told The Telegraph. “Ridiculous. They would have had a record of him studying there, I would have thought.
“They ought to think more than twice, and show consideration. Perhaps we are lucky they didn’t play Yellow Submarine. But perhaps they are not old enough for that.”
Full story (subscription required): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...-pembroke-college-host-submarine-themed-ball/
Free but it's the Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hours-sub-alumnus-Hamish-Harding-ran-air.html
I have to say, this story has put me right off the idea of going amateur submarining
- Mar 23, 2023
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Impossible, the titanic is too big to sink.
I watched a YT doc the other day about a Virginia Class Submarine (USN) and they use modified X Box controllers for some of the systems onboard, I guess the 20-30 somethings are use to handling these style of controls
US Seagull
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- Oct 12, 2022
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Baldseagull
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Trips to visit the wreck of the Titan on sale soon.
- Aug 7, 2003
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Serious lack of empathy on here.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Channel 4 news giving up another hour for a 'search special'. Ffs. No other news has happened today, oh apart from a dinghy sinking en route to the Canary Islands killing at least 35 migrants.
Weststander
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Just abandoned by them at 19:11. C4 News back to their 365 gloom about living in the UK.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Oh, not quite a search special then. I take it back (unless they still spend a disproportionate amount of time on the story)
Weststander
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You were correct and they called it “a special” until 10 minutes ago.
Then quietly ditched. We’re wondering if that’s because the debris’s been found and the US Coastguard have therefore cancelled their press conference later this hour.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The incoming lawsuits will be a whole new chapter on this tragedy. The vessel was not subject to the stringent safety checks other seagoing craft are, as it operates primarily in international waters, outside of the jurestiction of the US / Canadian authorities. They cut corners. OceanGate as a business are surely finished now anyway, even without the inevitable litigation.
JamesAndTheGiantHead
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Will that stand up if they’ve got signed waivers from consenting adults acknowledging that if they get in there’s a chance they’ll die?
It’s not like hopping on a ferry where these things are regulated and you can just get a ticket and assume all the safety stuff is taken care of.
As soon as they saw the PS3 controller they must have known this was going to be a gamble.
@BevBHA 's like of that comment has made me consider the fact he might be a bloke from Bevendean and not a bird called Beverley.