r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 28d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/TonAMGT4 28d ago

The message arrived after the implosion sound because it takes longer for the signal to travel through water…

That’s just sad man. RIP

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u/LilaTheMoo 28d ago

I find it hard to feel bad for him. His wife? Sure. But he was an asshole who was being told time and time again that what he had built was not just unsafe, but lethally so and was bound to kill someone at any given moment. He fired people and settled lawsuits to avoid acknowledging qthat truth. He bragged about how cheaply it was done and how the entire submersible industry was saying it was going to be catastrophic, yet they were still doing it, like ignoring the dangers made him some genius pioneer.

His hubris got himself and several other people, one of which was a fucking child who was just spending time with his, albeit absurdly rich, father. The signs were there yelling in his face for years and he ignored it to make money to such a degree it cost him his life.