If someone told me that a submersible named the Titan, owned by a company called OceanGATE, carrying three billionaires, had gone missing on an expedition to the Titanic, I would think it was some pitch for a new thriller mystery novel and not something that had actually happened due to the hubris and stupidity of rich people.
You know that asteroid that almost destroyed Earth in the 90s? Turns out the whole thing was secretly created by Michael Bay, who then PAID Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to look heroic while blowing it up!
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
[Cueball is holding a guitar and singing on a pier.]
The ship was the pride
of the American side
It was due to set
sail forCleveland
As the big freighters go,
it was bigger than most
With a crew and good
captain well seasoned
But taking a walk on
the shore by the dock
Was a songwriter named
Gordon Lightfoot
He was humming a tune
but it didn't have words
For it's challenging
trying to write good
Poor Gordon sought glory
but needed a story
His career in folk
music imperiled
He mulled over this as
he watched them do work
On the hull of the
Edmund Fitzgerald
Perhaps it was wrong,
what he did for a song
He should never have
bribed that mechanic
But his maritime crimes
are no worse than the time
Young James Cameron
sank the Titanic
HAMISH HARDING: Rich guy who went to space with Jeff Bezos, now dead for his hubris in thinking his money could protect him from the depths. Treated the sea as a playground. Faced the wrath of Poseidon and is now dead.
JAMES CAMERON: Rich guy who spent his career making movies about the awesome power of the sea (The Abyss, Titanic, Avatar 2), documentaries for National Geographic about the deep sea, and funded scientific research in to the Mariana Trench. Has paid his dues to the sea. Spared by Poseidon and allowed to keep making movies.
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“I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules.” —Famous last words and a fitting epitaph, by OceanGate’s CEO, Stockton Rush
Titanic Director, James Cameron, who visited the Titanic 33 times onboard a submersible and also holds a world record for the deepest dive ever at 35,787 ft in the Mariana Trench, has weighed in on the Titan disaster, saying, “I knew Titanic submarine imploded on Monday and rescue was a charade.”
Re: The Titanic submarine. Somebody said “a scaredy cat is still an alive cat” and I can’t stop thinking about that.
Obviously you can’t live your life in total fear of everything.
But if you need that adrenaline rush: Um, surfing, rock climbing, kayaking, sky diving, etc.
Of course these activities are risky too.
But unlike sealing yourself in a tin can death trap to get a brief, murky glimpse of something we already saw in the 1997 movie, they aren’t death sentences either.
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