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.
  • hikarulsiOP
    1110·
    3 年前

    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
        83·
        3 年前

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

        • RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net
          125·
          3 年前

          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
        67·
        3 年前

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

        • RedMarsRepublic
          113·
          3 年前

          What ‘scientific research’ is there that needs to be done on the Titanic in 2023? That’s an obvious smokeshow.

          • ch00f
            5·
            3 年前

            In a 2022 interview with CBC News, OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton Rush said the goal of the repeated subaquatic expeditions is to offer researchers an opportunity to analyze changes surrounding the sunken ship, including the development of coral reefs, decay of the ship’s metal and changes to the ocean’s current.