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People are perfectly happy to accept some risk. However you can’t expect normal people to take on extreme risk and expect a profitable long term business. If the actual risk are close to BASE jumping then you’ve failed.
> If the actual risk are close to BASE jumping then you’ve failed. The myriad BASE jumping businesses would probably like a word. Risk tolerance varies.
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I’m afraid not, but other companies could be contracted. Regardless, for a sub like this to just go missing, likely means something catastrophic happened. At those pressures, the individuals likely died instantly and felt no pain.
> At those pressures, the individuals likely died instantly and felt no pain. Only if the hull imploded. Dying from say co2 poisoning can be quite unpleasant.
I get the flex this affords, but I can't think of anything less appealing than spending 8 days underwater in a tiny capsule. I hope they're found and nothing happened.
For those mentioning about detailed location tracking / communication: Non-low-bandwidth communication underwater is really difficult due to the physics of EM waves traveling through a medium such as water: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_acoustic_communic...
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People are perfectly happy to accept some risk. However you can’t expect normal people to take on extreme risk and expect a profitable long term business. If the actual risk are close to BASE jumping then you’ve failed.
> If the actual risk are close to BASE jumping then you’ve failed. The myriad BASE jumping businesses would probably like a word. Risk tolerance varies.
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Who’s hiring? :-D
http://guillotinery.com/
> Fuck 'em
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I don't think there is any glass. Both of the end caps are supposedly titanium and there are cameras.
That's not true. There is a "large viewport", per their website: https://oceangate.com/gallery/gallery-titan.html
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People are perfectly happy to accept some risk. However you can’t expect normal people to take on extreme risk and expect a profitable long term business. If the actual risk are close to BASE jumping then you’ve failed.
> If the actual risk are close to BASE jumping then you’ve failed. The myriad BASE jumping businesses would probably like a word. Risk tolerance varies.