Missing Titanic Submersible

A truly incredible training opportunity in any case, and that has immense value.

I just hope those passengers didn't choose the suggested minimum tip prior to submerging.

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Originally Posted by oldnew_guy

They just did the SAR stuff we fund the USCG to do.

They did it well: they organized a multi-agency, multi-nationality response a minimum of 400 NM out to sea, no one else died, they completed their search and found the sub and in the meantime they managed the public speculation about the status of the sub while they didn't have complete information. Textbook USCG.

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Yup.
Textbook consummate professionals.

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Originally Posted by pfluffenmeister

I just hope those passengers didn't choose the suggested minimum tip prior to submerging.

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well played

I’m constantly impressed with how well the USCG does its job day in day out and most of the time completely under the radar or out of the evening news.

In just one day last week I saw them respond and recover a stranded pleasure vessel (idiot boaters on the ICW without a clue as to the tides) and then that afternoon clear the beaches without complaint or issue when four or five shark went chasing a couple bait balls down the shoreline.

The cold water rescues I’ve seen on the Great Lakes are insane as well, never mind what they do in way worse environments.

I wandered down to the CG Academy one afternoon when visiting my sister at her college down the road (she was sailing against them, and thankfully won that day lol); very cool spot.

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Originally Posted by frorider

I think you meant to say purview not purlieu my good sir.

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Ahem.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionar...o%20a%20forest.

You can use the noun purlieu for any outlying or nearby areas, or even to mean "usual haunts," like the used record shops and cafes where you and your friends normally hang out.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Sometimes, punnery isn’t pretty.

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Sometimes?!

If anyone here has amazon prime, the book “Deep” by James Nestor is free to read and has a chapter about these super deep depths, the visibility and such. It was a good read all around
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Freedivi...4-0c5b33307349

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

The scavenger and attention seeker memes have started and they’re viscous.

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Those slimy bastages.

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Originally Posted by babybear

If anyone here has amazon prime, the book “Deep” by James Nestor is free to read and has a chapter about these super deep depths, the visibility and such. It was a good read all around
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Freedivi...4-0c5b33307349

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Speaking of the Deep, at age 14 I was a very enthusiastic viewer and really appreciated the very fine acting abilities of Jaqueline Bisset.

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Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

"You're remembered for the rules you break". Yep, you'll go down in history as an idiot that ignored well tested engineering, thought you could do better and it only cost your life and the lives of several others.

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Edward Smith to the courtesy phone please.


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Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

"You're remembered for the rules you break". Yep, you'll go down in history as an idiot that ignored well tested engineering, thought you could do better and it only cost your life and the lives of several others.

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"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope that the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny that he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned. That is the phantasmagoria that haunts his nights and dogs his days."

- Herbert Hoover

Something tells me there was no such person working at that company. I hope not, anyway. Knowing what the boss was doing would be like suffocating in the sub after the controller batteries died. Better the implosion comes through faster than the (old) speed of sound.

"Once upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."

-Herbert Hoover

Near, far, wherever you are.... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b7a74350d7.jpg

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https://twitter.com/rowankaiser/stat...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

This has most likely already been posted here but just in case it hasn’t - some interesting commentary from James Cameron

Bmills we share different impressions of the uscg.

I can respect that. I’m only going off what I’ve seen personally and my interactions with them.

Unfortunately the same, but it’s been a while so hopefully lessons learned.

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Originally Posted by Peruvian

Is the topic back to banging the kids’ friends’ moms again?

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pictures would help

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So.

Spend a half mill

To go in some rando homemade carbon tube with titanium end caps. At depth. Serious depth. Just to see the dead titanic?

Wtf.

Get a life.
Do something. Other than Instagram snap chat gram fuckery.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I can respect that. I’m only going off what I’ve seen personally and my interactions with them.

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Lake Lanier?

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Originally Posted by highangle

Lake Lanier?

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I wouldn’t head out on Lake Lanier in a frigate.

That lake exists solely to kill people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...logs-1.6887770

now Canada is getting in on the action