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[–] Odusei@lemmy.world 150 points 1 year ago (7 children)

End of an era.

They did dozens of successful trips to the Titanic, but for some reason people only wanna talk about the time they accidentally cooked and pancaked the CEO

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 131 points 1 year ago

"You fuck a goat one time"

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 60 points 1 year ago

an old irishman shuffles into a bar at sundown with his eyes low and his head down
the bartender says "ay, billy! whats the matter. you seem troubled"
billy responds with "you see this bar we're standing in. I built it with me own hands! but they don't call me the bar builder, no!

and the bridge everyone uses to cross the river to get to the market, i built that that with me own hands too! but do the call me the bridge builder? no, they do not.

and the wall that protects our city, i built that with me own hands too! and they don't call me the wall builder neither.

BUT YOU FUCK ONE GOAT!...

[–] nepenthes@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know you're being facetious, but I just wanted to point out that out of however many dives, only something like four of those missions were successful 😬

[–] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Well it's the same with literally everything No one is talking about Indonesia flight 1-151

[–] multimultiverse@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago
[–] JackBruhhh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhat of a similar fate as the White Star Line. Although nobody is going to merge with these guys.

[–] New_account@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Titanic fanously sank on its maiden voyage, so that's a little different. The Titan submersible was successful for hundreds of dives before the implosion, which I'm sure gave the team a false sense of security and ultimately led them to ignore all the red flags.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

The Titan imploded on it's 14th commercial dive. Also, during testing the hull was damaged by pressure cycling and had to be repaired or replaced. OceanGate claimed at one point the Titan had done ~50 test dives, but not all at the depth of Titanic. IMHO, the false sense of security was born of ignorance.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hundreds? I thought it was more on the order of dozens, and not many dozens at that.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not hundreds, that person was incorrect. Their entire fleet of 3 subs had done around 200 dives total, so none of those 3 subs has done hundreds of dives. Depending on which source you read, the Titan had been to the Titanic between 3 and 14 times prior to the accident. It seems even the journalists reporting on the story couldn't get solid facts out of OceanGate.

[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Also, Titan was the only sub they actually designed and built.

Their first two subs were purchased. They didn't design them, they didn't build them.

They used their first sub pretty much as it was. They used their second sub as a kind of trial platform to develop some of the systems that they later used on Titan - stuff like the game controller for steering the sub, for example.