Nearly a year after the implosion of an OceanGate submersible en route to the Titanic’s final resting place, a tragedy that killed all five people on board, a billionaire is planning another trip to the wreck. Larry Connor, whom the BBC refers to as an Ohio luxury real estate tycoon and adventurer, is planning a trip to the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean with Patrick Lahey, co-founder of Triton Submarines. Neither was involved with the OceanGate expedition, and after the implosion, Triton was among the companies rushing to differentiate between “classed” and “unclassed” subs: Triton uses only classed vessels, which are considered very safe, while the OceanGate vessel that imploded was unclassed, using experimental materials and designs, the Wall Street Journal reports.
With the bad press the OceanGate implosion brought to the submersible industry, Connor got in touch with Lahey and suggested they build a vessel that could repeatedly and safely make the trip to the Titanic, which sits more than 12,400 feet deep, to illustrate that OceanGate’s sub was the exception, not the rule. “I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way,” says Connor, who has previously made trips to the Mariana Trench and the International Space Station.
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Yes, it could be life-changing.
What’s the right way, dipshit? Maybe to not have a ghoulish fascination with a tragedy?
Well, at least they’re not using a contraption built in a garage using surplus materials…
Still, I don’t really see the point.
Money doesn’t buy common sense.
What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the Titanic?
A Titanic iceberg.
The Titanic.
Graveyard of hubris-filled rich people for 112 years and counting.
It sank.
Get over it.
…will HE be hiring boring 50 yo White guys?
…if not, Im sure Boeing can hook him up with the latest in DEI…
aircubed
WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024, 10:56 AT 10:56 AM
“What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the Titanic?”
Halfway.
https://youtu.be/bcLazPauA1c?si=nvHahzokRgAJCi4w
No equipment needed – Just calculate an accurate drop point and let him go!
Play this one before you do –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWRZP6F0v5A
Kate Winslet aint down there dude.
He probably watched “Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea” on TV as a kid.
‘Larry Connor, whom the BBC refers to as an Ohio luxury real estate tycoon and adventurer,’
Wait a minute. We have luxury real estate in Ohio? Who knew?
I guess I’m in the minority here.
I find it fascinating and would go down to Titanic if I could.
Ever since Bob Ballard found it there have been numerous safe dives from safe submersibles.
I wouldn’t let some dipshit who did it wrong and paid the ultimate price stop me from pursuing my dream of one day going down there to see for myself.
‘Merica!
Eugenia
WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024, 12:35 AT 12:35 PM
‘Wait a minute. We have luxury real estate in Ohio? Who knew?’
…absolutely!
Check out the humble abode of the West Chester Weeper himself, John “Democrat Ally” Bohener.
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/john-boehners-house/view/google/
…pretty good for 30 pieces of silver, especially considering the custom sewer work needed to handle his tears…
…you can actually get a dryer, less costly look here…
https://thetitanicexhibition.com/chicago/
The streets of Chicago add all the life hazard adrenaline of a REAL dive, and with more colorful Sea Monkeys,too!
…or, if ChiCongo is still too adveturous, head across the pond for a genuine White Star experience built from the ACTUAL components of Titanic’s sister Olympic, and make a meal of it!
https://www.titanicandco.com/olympic/olympicsuite.html
…theres also a “thing” in Pigeon Forge TN, but Ive spent my link budget so you can look on your own. They have (limited) artifacts too.
…So reach out and touch the Titanic if you like.
No mothership required…
LBS,
I’m with you. I like to explore, to see stuff.
BUT!….at the same time, be respectful of others, and of the dead.
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints”.
Gettysburg…everybody knows about it.
Yet tourists go there daily, re-enactors do their thing annually.
Yet as long as “the honored dead” are respected, no one thinks twice about it.
My grandpa was fond of saying: ‘that fool’s got more money than sense.’
My grandpa tried to warn everyone that the Titanic was going to sink. They got so tired of hearing it that they threw him out of the movie theater.
I have a poster signed by Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
My friend funded the Bob Ballard expedition, and he gave me a framed photo that he took of the Ballard submersible going down to the Titanic.
Aircubed: That made me LOL and nowadays that isn’t easy. I’m still looking for bigfoot.
@SNS,Thanks, I was close to forgetting the cry baby. In Akron and Cleveland i have seen some stunning old houses from the 1930’s. Some are in good repair while others need some help. I don’t care for the new McMansions I see taking up former cow pastures and corn fields.