Another Billionaire Wants To Visit The Titanic In A Submarine To Prove That Deep Sea Tourism Submarines Are Safe, Actually
In what seems to be becoming an annual story, a billionaire wants to take a miniature submarine down to the Titanic, this time with the mission to prove that taking a miniature submarine down to see the Titanic is not a death sentence.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Ohio billionaire Larry Connor is planning an expedition to the Titanic in a two-person submarine built by Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey.
Connor reportedly wants to complete a trip to the Titanic in a miniature submarine to show other very wealthy adventurers that the trip can be done without dying, which is a legitimate concern after last year's infamous OceanGate submarine implosion when OceanGate's "Titan" sub killed five wealthy travelers on their way to see the Titanic.
“I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way,” he said.
Lahey has designed a sub called the "Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer," and Connor believes the sub can make the trip to the Titanic's wreckage "repeatedly." Lahey thinks that the issue with the Oceangate was that the company had sidestepped various safety certifications, a mistake he will not make by ensuring his vessel will be up to code and be made out of tested material, unlike the Titan, which was made out of carbon fiber. The Triton will likely not be piloted with a video game controller either.
While it seems likely that Lahey's Triton won't suffer the same fate as OceanGate's Titan, social media did not have high hopes for its chances, with many expressing that they felt the OceanGate incident proved that trying to visit the Titanic in a very small boat is not a good idea.
No date is set for Connor and Lahey's trip, but needless to say, the two will be under a lot of pressure — in addition to carrying the weight of the deep sea tourism industry on their backs, the two will be under 375 atmospheres of water pressure at the Titanic wreckage. That will be about 5,500 pounds of pressure per square inch on their vessel.
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wared
a billionaire ceo: * Gets crushed by submarine under extreme water pressure *
2020:
Skittles Lad
>2020
What?
Hype train conductor
If this is what it takes to rid the world of billionaires one at a time, I'm all for it
kfchitman
It's going to be different this time guys. They have prepared, and now have a 1st party Xbox controller.
that1dude0092
Lets see how different this billionaire is gonna be from the other guy.
Will he actually listen to experts or will he ignore and fire them whenever they start bringing up serious safety issues?
TheHolyEmpress
The idea of sending more wealthy billionaires deep into the bottom of the ocean inside unproven and potentially dangerous experimental submarines actually sounds great to me.
polandgod75
Broke: eating the rich
Woke: encouraging the rich to go under the sea.
KozaChain
Dubstadrak
Nyazilla
KumichouGamer
How's about, do an assload of unmanned test dives to test safety first, ensure that the testing does not leave the submarine's condition vulnerable to being broken, aborting mission as soon as communication is lost, and having someone on board with experience and manual control to pilot the submarine to safety should communication be lost?
Linkzor24
Well, we already know how to dive the very depths of the ocean, it's not some esoteric secret lost to the sands of time. Oceangate CEO was just a massive idiot with a huge ego.
ralphie1231
If there was any justice in this world, Poseidon would have turned him into a blobfish for this type of hubris.
SchAltogether
Funny thing about that, the reason blobfish look deformed and ugly when out of water…
… is because, as a deep sea fish, its body is unable to withstand a low pressure enivoronment, causing it to effectively explode.
(What it's actually supposed to look like)
So effectively, by being into a blobfish before going underwater, he'd be doomed to the opposite fate as the people that got on board the Titan.
ObadiahtheSlim
"Lahey thinks that the issue with the Oceangate was that the company had sidestepped various safety certifications, a mistake he will not make by ensuring his vessel will be up to code and be made out of tested material, unlike the Titan, which was made out of carbon fiber. "
Yeah, that sounds about right.
1navov
Funfact: carbon fiber is great for tensile loads (i.e. being stretched out from the inside), but is shit against compressive loads (i.e. being crushed like a soda can)
Guess what it was used for in Titan.