For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).

They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?

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    1 year ago

    Seeing the construction of the submersible, I would not have ridden it… As soon as the inventer said “I got these from, uh, camper world…” I would be scurrying the hell out of that thing…

    Apparently the acrylic viewing window was not rated for that depth, and the body of the submersible is constructed from carbon fiber… That whole rig seems sketchy as hell to me…

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      this video’s journalists even are like “dude this is incredibly scuffed”, those scientists with them should be considered heroes in some sense