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phantom13 said:
The people criticizing those who don’t want to waste time and money doing a litter pick at 4kms deep seem to be missing that no one is suggesting there shouldn’t be investigations, I haven’t seen a single person saying that.

What I’m saying (and I think most who agree with the don’t bother with the recovery) is that recovering whatever little is left isn’t going to aid the investigation and spending likely millions of dollars doing it to add a pointless paragraph on a report for the betterment of the billionaire submersible tourism industry isn’t worth a single taxpayer dollar.

We’ve been to challenger deep, there have been hundreds if not thousands of dives to the titanic wreckage, these all worked because the people doing it were trying to turn that s**t into tourism.
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I think there's certain scales of investigations. This will be investigated, even if purely for insurance reasons. I don't think anybody is saying that there should be some sort of full-blown sea floor scanning looking for the debris like it's MH370, but to just write it off as "they ****ed around and found out" and leave it at that is equally stupid.

I'm probably naive as well, but any ships or technology used for any investigations would have been purpose built for this type of situation, so what else would they be doing instead? Write it off as a training exercise if anything. USA military budget is over 2 trillion this year, with the Navy allocated 255.5 billion and people are complaining about the money of an investigation lmao.
 

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JyeDye said:
I think there's certain scales of investigations. This will be investigated, even if purely for insurance reasons. I don't think anybody is saying that there should be some sort of full-blown sea floor scanning looking for the debris like it's MH370, but to just write it off as "they ****ed around and found out" and leave it at that is equally stupid.

I'm probably naive as well, but any ships or technology used for any investigations would have been purpose built for this type of situation, so what else would they be doing instead? Write it off as a training exercise if anything. USA military budget is over 2 trillion this year, and people are complaining about the money of an investigation lmao.
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So blow more money cause… reasons.

That’s cool.

Like I couldn’t be more clear that they should (and will) investigate but blowing millions (which aren’t already accounted for) to pick up scraps which will tell you nothing is a pointless exercise.
 
Moonwatcher said:
Surely cinemas bring it back for the 25th anniversary this year especially with the renewed interest. Though they might want to avoid being criticised as callous.
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Pretty sure they re released it last year for its 25th anniversary and it tipped the billion dollar box office.
 
JyeDye said:
I think there's certain scales of investigations. This will be investigated, even if purely for insurance reasons. I don't think anybody is saying that there should be some sort of full-blown sea floor scanning looking for the debris like it's MH370, but to just write it off as "they ****ed around and found out" and leave it at that is equally stupid.

I'm probably naive as well, but any ships or technology used for any investigations would have been purpose built for this type of situation, so what else would they be doing instead? Write it off as a training exercise if anything. USA military budget is over 2 trillion this year, with the Navy allocated 255.5 billion and people are complaining about the money of an investigation lmao.
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They wouldn't even notice if they took it from Ukraine donations.
 
phantom13 said:
So blow more money cause… reasons.

That’s cool.

Like I couldn’t be more clear that they should (and will) investigate but blowing millions (which aren’t already accounted for) to pick up scraps which will tell you nothing is a pointless exercise.
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Sorry, I agree with that. I quoted the wrong post instead of this one.
Gralin said:
I mean I think an investigation is a complete waste of time.

It's a pretty clear case of * around and find out
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JyeDye said:
Sorry, I agree with that. I quoted the wrong post instead of this one.
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And i days in five with them investigating the company I just don't see any value in trying to recover the debris
 

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I saw Titanic at the cinema when it came out in 1997, I was bored shitless for the first half with the romance stuff but it picked up when the boat sank.

The guy jumping off the ship just before it sank and hitting the propeller was the highlight, it got a lot of laughs in the cinema that I was at.

It probably wouldn't have got a lot of laughs from the rest of the people on the Titanic at the time if that actually happened.
 
Plugger35 said:
I saw Titanic at the cinema when it came out back in 1997, I was bored shitless for the first half with the romance stuff, picked up when the boat sank.

The guy jumping off the ship just before it sank and hitting the propeller was the highlight, it got a lot of laughs in the cinema that I was at.

It probably wouldn't have got a lot of laughs from the rest of the people on the Titanic at the time if that actually happened.
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It's just your garden variety chick flick with some brilliant set design and special effects.
 
I saw Titanic in the 3D re-release and it was so realistic I could feel James Cameron taking the money from my pocket
 
I like watching the Titanic documentaries and apparently there was a fire that was on the ship down in the bellows when they set sail for America.

It was a steam ship so they relied on coal powered steam and they had a coal fire on the ship that they couldn't put out which weakened the steel hull.

They didn't show that in the Titanic movie but according to the experts that contributed as much to the Titanic sinking as it hitting the iceberg.

A lot of factors contributed to it sinking, the iceberg was just one of them and also that no other ships came to it's rescue when they should have done.

That's what makes it such a fascinating story.
 
Moonwatcher said:
Coal fires were reasonably common apparently. If they hadn't hit the iceberg they wouldn't have been in danger. Not sure how much I believe that they would have survived the iceberg strike had they not had the fire.
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Some of the experts also reckon that they would have been better if they just hit the iceberg straight on rather than swerving to try and avoid it.

The ship was much stronger at the front and might have been able to withstand the collision better than the side of the ship which was much weaker.

A lot of factors contributed to it sinking and calling it the unsinkable Titanic didn't help either, hubris has a way of catching up with you like the Titan.
 
Plugger35 said:
Some of the experts also reckon that they would have been better if they just hit the iceberg straight on rather than swerving to try and avoid it.

The ship was much stronger at the front and might have been able to withstand the collision better than the side of the ship which was much weaker.

A lot of factors contributed to it sinking and calling it the unsinkable Titanic didn't help either, hubris has a way of catching up with you like the Titan.
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What do they say these days about low quality steel in the rivets?
 
Gough said:
If the Titanic hadn't sunk all the japes at Downton Abbey wouldn't have happened.
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Loved that show
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