On 18 June 2023, Titan, a submersible operated by the American tourism and expeditions company OceanGate, imploded during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
What are the chances that any one attempting to collect any video of the wreck and maybe details that dont match historical narratives are going to simply die suddenly?
Since 1985, there have been numerous submersible expeditions to the Titanic for phtographic documentation and collection of artifacts. The chances of dying suddenly are 100% if you go down in an unsound vessel (e.g., the Titan). As for anyone else, natural causes or they are still alive.
Yeah you're totally right.. did some digging and had no idea how busy the wreck was with visitors - almost 250 people have been and gone and can tell the tale. Not so exclusive a place as it once was.
Yeah looked at the history of the titanic and when/who was there, he has supposedly been there 33 times. Some time after Robert Ballard was the first and into the early 2000s.
A big gap between 2005 and 2019 in which no-one was there. And things resumed in 2019 by Victor Vescovo, EYOS expeditions, Triton submarines. And up until the recent Oceangate disaster, there were other visits in 2023 from a company called Magellan Ltd, doing 3d scanning and modelling with a pair of crewed submarines.
Seems like James Cameron has been there more than anyone else, but almost 250 people have been now. And most seem to hate the commercialization of the experience but its undeniable that it looks like its been picked over pretty heavily for stuff to forage and sell.
What are the chances that any one attempting to collect any video of the wreck and maybe details that dont match historical narratives are going to simply die suddenly?
Pretty good chances. Pretty good chances that they'll never come back alive.
Quite the opposite. Aside from the Titan, they all came back alive.
Since 1985, there have been numerous submersible expeditions to the Titanic for phtographic documentation and collection of artifacts. The chances of dying suddenly are 100% if you go down in an unsound vessel (e.g., the Titan). As for anyone else, natural causes or they are still alive.
Yeah you're totally right.. did some digging and had no idea how busy the wreck was with visitors - almost 250 people have been and gone and can tell the tale. Not so exclusive a place as it once was.
I thought James Cameron made it down there to get real footage for his movie?
Yeah looked at the history of the titanic and when/who was there, he has supposedly been there 33 times. Some time after Robert Ballard was the first and into the early 2000s.
A big gap between 2005 and 2019 in which no-one was there. And things resumed in 2019 by Victor Vescovo, EYOS expeditions, Triton submarines. And up until the recent Oceangate disaster, there were other visits in 2023 from a company called Magellan Ltd, doing 3d scanning and modelling with a pair of crewed submarines.
Seems like James Cameron has been there more than anyone else, but almost 250 people have been now. And most seem to hate the commercialization of the experience but its undeniable that it looks like its been picked over pretty heavily for stuff to forage and sell.
Like this gigantic panel currently at a casino!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Piece
So yeah my bad.. I had no idea how busy it seems to have been.