@rookie54 saidI wouldn’t agree, it’s more to do with the highly unusual circumstances I think as was this story which fortunately ended with all of the trapped men surviving.
the only reason these folks are in the news is because of the staggering amount of money involved
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https://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359839104/the-incredible-story-of-chilean-miners-rescued-from-the-deep-down-dark
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@divegeester saidA comforting thought especially for their families and friends. Let's hope no one else will try a similar thing - just leave the wreck where it is.
I was hoping that if the men died that it would not have been through a long drawn out period of suffering on the sea bed and gradually running out of breathable air, and it now seems that thier deaths would have been instantaneous and early on in the dive.
Small mercies.
@divegeester saidPlay stupid games, win stupid prizes.
These billionaire guys paid 250k each to go to the bottom of the ocean to an historic graveyard which is about 2.5 miles down, where the pressure is nearly 400 times as much as at the surface, to visit a shipwreck which they can only see on a small monitor, in a cramped tube with no windows, with no seats and which was controlled by a modified PlayStation controller.
...[text shortened]... have gotten together in the first place?[/i]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65957709
F around and find out.
They had too many dollars and not enough sense.
@gambrel saidIts the curse of the wealthy. By age 40 most of them have no reason to live. They have no bucket list, nothing to conquer no more dreams to follow. They would have travelled the world over, eaten all the different types of food and bring all their fantasies to reality.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
F around and find out.
They had too many dollars and not enough sense.
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@rajk999 saidthey probably weren't chess players..
Its the curse of the wealthy. By age 40 most of them have no reason to live. They have no bucket list, nothing to conquer no more dreams to follow. They would have travelled the world over, eaten all the different types of food and bring all their fantasies to reality.
@fmf saidIndeed. This was being discussed last night on Channel 5 here in the UK. The bottom line in that debate was more or less (although not articulated as bluntly), this incident is more unusual, therefore more interesting, therefore more media prone. Looking at various social media I say that media consumers were less interested, less caring about the 5 people who died in the Titan (sometimes scathingly so), than they are about the migrants who die making crossings. But viewers are more interested in the circumstances, technical implications and controversies surrounding OceanGate.
It got way more coverage than the 600 people who drowned off Pylos, Greece, in similarly ghastly circumstances, a few days ago.
Edit; there is also the Titanic and the bottom-of-the-ocean disaster movie drama.