• @mke
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    6 months ago

    The last few pages of the transcript are chilling. I don’t know who this helmsman, AB-1, is, but I deeply feel for them.

    (Implied) heavy content

    CAPT: come on @AB-1. gotta move. (we) gotta move. you gotta get up. you gotta snap out of it- and we gotta get out. AB-1: okay. CAPT: come up. AB-1: okay.

    AB-1: help me. CAPT: don’t panic. don’t panic. CAPT: work your way up here. AB-1: I can’t.

    AB-1: help me. CAPT: you’re okay. come on. CAPT: don’t freeze up @AB-1. come on.

    AB-1: I can’t *. CAPT: yes you can *. AB-1: my feet are (slipping/slippery).

    AB-1: I need a ladder. CAPT: we don’t have a ladder @AB-1. AB-1: (a line). CAPT: I don’t have a line @AB-1. AB-1: you gunna leave me

    AB-1: (I need someone to/help somebody) help me. (you don’t wanna/you gunna) help me? CAPT: I’m the only one here @AB-1.

    AB-1: (I can’t). AB-1: I can’t. AB-1: (I’m gone/I’m a goner).

    • RandomStickman
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      176 months ago

      Yeah I read the Wikipedia page and it went from “rhut row” to downright depressing real quick

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        On October 5, an unidentified body in a survival suit, presumed to be from El Faro, was found but was not recovered. According to the rescue diver, the body was unrecognizable, its head three times normal size

        how tf does that happen?

        https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_El_Faro

        • RandomStickman
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          36 months ago

          My guess is a combination of bloating from decomposition and, more importantly, pressure from the depths

          • Doom
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            16 months ago

            waterlogged, cells are swollen with ocean water probably