Ohio billionaire Larry Connor said he wants to prove that the imploded Titan sub "was a contraption" and that the ocean can be "kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way."
  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1352·
    7 months ago

    I definitely think he should. Maybe he can recruit a few more billionaires to prove that it was just a freak accident.

    I would like to recommend my e-book, “How to build a totally safe paper-mache deepsea submersible” available on Amazon for free.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    7 months ago

    Larry Connor is a real estate investor in Dayton, Ohio

    Oh, a landlord. Does he have any friends in the business he can take with him?

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    7 months ago

    I mean, he’ll probably be okay. Deep sea submersible technology is pretty nailed down at this point.

    What happened with the Titan is the Ocean Gate guy thought he was smarter than everyone else and could make a deep sea submersible with non-standard components (carbon fiber that had passed it’s expiration date, off-the-shelf electronics, oh and a window not rated for the depths it was going). And to be fair the out of the 15 attempted dives down to the Titanic only one of them catastrophically failed. A 6.6% failure rate isn’t too bad… for some applications.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      151·
      7 months ago

      What happened with the Titan is the Ocean Gate guy thought he was smarter than everyone else

      So a billionaire? Like this guy?

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      7 months ago

      Honestly if it was just a drone it would have been pretty respectable. Using otherwise less desirable tech and materials to achieve a goal equivalent to high tech shit is pretty impressive. But they just gad to put people in it.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 months ago

      Every new detail I learn about the engineering of the Titan submersible takes me to a yet more profound depth of claustrophobia I did not know was possible.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 months ago

    Do it! Take all the other billionaires with you! Any of the ones that don’t want to go down to the Titanic can be sent off to Mars with Elon.

  • arc@lemm.ee
    14·
    7 months ago

    This guy seems to be taking safety slightly more seriously with his sub plans than the last guy. Which is unfortunate for people looking forward to more billionaires transforming themselves into paste.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    the ocean can be “kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way.”

    yeah, like if you make a series of staged* test dives to determine the vessel’s endurance and viability before filling it with a group of rich dummies and going straight to the bottom in one go.

    *“staged” as in test diving in successive stages of increasing depth, not “staged” as in “faked”