Commercial submarine ($250,000 per ticket) exploring Titanic loses contact w/ 5 onboard, 4 days of oxygen

[nyknick]

The Reuters report on the potential legal situation facing OceanGate going forward also highlights some interesting quirks about how maritime law works in these situations.

For instance, the report notes that under maritime law, owners of vessels involved in an accident may ask a court in the US to limit damages claims by family members to the current value of the vessel.

Since the Titan was destroyed, Reuters notes, “that would be zero”.

But to do this, OceanGate would need to prove it had no knowledge of potential defects with the submersible and would carry the burden of proof, which is a hard standard to meet.

Another maritime law, the Death on the High Seas Act, limits the amount people who were financially dependent on another who died in a naval accident to only a portion of their future earnings. Plaintiffs also cannot recover losses for pain and suffering.

Maritime Law fukkery incoming, lets see if they can weasel their way out with so much heat on them.

 

[mastermind]

i knew it. so much in this hemisphere is caught on spy tech but you cant automatically reveal things. knowing earlier wouldnt help those people anyway, but it would help get this ridiculous story out of the news cycle a little faster

The media would have ignored it to keep up with the death clock beat.

I didn’t care about this story at all, but the death countdown stuff is disgusting. Western News media is sick.

 

[nyknick]

The media would have ignored it to keep up with the death clock beat.

I didn’t care about this story at all, but the death countdown stuff is disgusting. Western News media is sick.

This was like the Chinese spy balloon story on steroids.

It had the added 'drama' of lives on the line and also the Titanic, only way the media could get more excited was if a British royal was somehow involved.

 

[Gains]

so the submarine guy is a cato institute dumb fukk

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

so the submarine guy is a cato institute dumb fukk

@DEAD7 the hardest hit

 

[Professor Emeritus]

James Cameron's Take On The Titan Disaster Is The Best We've Heard

The "Titanic" director is also an experienced deep-sea explorer who is the first person to make a solo descent the deepest part of the ocean.

www.thedrive.com

I didn't realize people had visited it so often. This whole ordeal signs even stupider now. Imagine paying half a million dollars to risk your life doing something that James Cameron has done safely 33 times.

It's crazy when he talks about how safe and careful the industry has been, then this guy comes in and just acts like an Elon Musk throwing caution to the wind.

 

[Batsute]

As somebody who worked on oil & gas on the training and safety side, he’d still be long dead before O&G signed off on something like that. Safety is one of their biggest concerns especially for contractors like TransOcean. Even if he proved it was “safe” once 2nd & 3rd parties reviewed that shyt they would’ve passed on that playskool sub.

 

[King Ming]

Sohh no bodies will be found?

Conspiracy theories about to popoff!

 

[mastermind]

Sohh no bodies will be found?

Conspiracy theories about to popoff!

After seeing that video, you probably have a mental illness if you believe there is some other nonsense.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I’m sitting here bugging out at how 500 years ago nikkas like Magellan and Christopher Columbus got on a boat and said fukk it let’s just see where this takes us and went sailing on the sea with no technology

You can’t see shyt out there at night


Muthafukkas were insane to do that shyt!

 

[Joe Sixpack]

These idiots knew that this company had mad red flags and they still went on this shyt to die

They paid money to go down there and die on a machine that had mad red flags

It’s really hard to have sympathy for these fukkin idiots

I only really feel bad for that 19 year old kid dude had his whole life ahead of him

fukkin idiots

 

[radio rahiem]

I’m sitting here bugging out at how 500 years ago nikkas like Magellan and Christopher Columbus got on a boat said fukk it let’s just see where this takes us and went sailing on the sea with no technology

You can’t see shyt out there at night


Muthafukkas were insane to do that shyt!

Pretty sure they navigated using the stars. Even back then.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Pretty sure they navigated using the stars. Even back then.

Yeah but still

shyt is still crazy

You ever been on a cruise?

That water is mad rough

They were insane

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Sohh no bodies will be found?

Conspiracy theories about to popoff!

I really thought the underwater UFO guys were gonna have a field day with those knocking sounds.

 

[ill]

Sohh no bodies will be found
Conspiracy theories about to popoff!

The only tinfoil theories going around right now is that the US Navy knew about the implosion days ago and the current administration let it play out to bury a certain news story