A submersible that vanished in waters off Canada during a tourism expedition to explore the Titanic could have as little as 70 hours of oxygen left, with a British billionaire among those on board.
    • hikarulsi@lemmy.worldOP
      03·
      2 years ago

      Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that’s the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          11·
          2 years ago

          He might fund people who are though (…though I wish we didn’t have a system that would need that…)

          • RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net
            5·
            2 years ago

            Well anyone ‘could’ fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.

        • ch00f@lemmy.world
          04·
          2 years ago

          The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.

  • FuzzyDoublePumper@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I imagine the same thing happened here as with some airliner crashes where the pressure failsafe didn’t work and they all passed out and suffocated. They probably didn’t even know there was an issue before going unconscious.

  • CommodoreSixtyFour_@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    A billionaire doing his part on stopping the existence of billionaires would be great. I fear the inheritence, though. Maybe something good will come out of it.

    I can only say: I would have not wished that person harm. I would have wished them to return safely. But it does not make me sad to hear that they did not.

  • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
    33·
    2 years ago

    Can you explain how this counts as news, @hikarulsi@lemmy.world?

    This is massively insulting to the rest of the people onboard as well, who are not mentioned in the article from what I saw.

    • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      “There’s not enough content!”

      “Wtf is this useless content?!”

      I get it’s not super interesting, but here we are talking about the worlds circumstances that caused such fkn stupid thing to happen. And how this even makes headlines is sort of primed for political discussion etc.

      Its what you make it.

  • Jurbl@lemmy.ca
    33·
    2 years ago

    Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Do you want my billionaire? I thought it would be a novelty, to show off to my friends, like a houseplant, but it turns out, its kind of just a piece of shit.

      • Oobleckonyoface@kbin.social
        0·
        2 years ago

        While true, his billions aren’t going to be distributed to the poor, a dead billionaires money goes to a dead billionaires family who probably deserves the money even less but feel owed the money even more than he did.