Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "7NEWS Australia" channel.

  1. You do not know that the 19-year-old was 'pressured' by his father into doing the Titan trip! You are accepting wholesale a version of events given by his aunt alone (and widely reported by sensationalist mass media), which is totally contradicted by his mother and other family members. In fact Suleman Dawood had contacted the Guinness World Records before the dive, to register his intention to complete a unique Rubiks Cube challenge aboard the Titan sub, close to the Titanic wreck. He was obsessed with Rubiks Cubes, and excited about this quirky challenge and his imminent creation of a new world record. That does not sound like a young man who was afraid, or doing the Titanic trip against his will just to please his father! I feel Stockton Rush found the perfect passengers, by targeting multi millionaires. The super-rich not only have the disposable income available to bankroll his aquatic ego trip, they tend to possess an innate confidence that nothing terrible will happen to them. Money protects you from life's 'bumps in the road', and huge amounts of money can even convince you you're immortal. Stockton Rush, a narcissist at the extreme end of the spectrum, was an accomplished snake oil salesman. His sales pitch to flog $250k apiece Titan tickets to the rich was slick and persuasive. He would tell them a deep dive to Titanic on his submersible was statistically lower risk than crossing the road. He also quoted the impressive safety record of submersible vehicles, in their 60 year history (a record achieved not by him with his dodgy carbon fibre coke can, but by all the professionals down the decades who observed the rules and maintained far higher standards than OceanGate, across the board). So despite the multiple mentions of death in the waiver Titan passengers signed, I recognise why so many wealthy adventurers trusted OceanGate. After all, Stockton Rush put his money where his mouth is and was aboard the Titan on every Titanic dive. His presence alone would have reassured them of the sub's safety.
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  2. Be fair, the cops had a big box of donuts to finish...
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  3. The Coastguard heard the unmistakable sound of the Titan submersible's implosion as it happened, and knew all along the five men were dead. James Cameron has since confirmed that the maritime world was fully aware of the tragedy the same day it happened, and even raised a toast in respect to their lost comrades (great sadness in particular about Titanic expert PH Nargeolet). Nor was there any mystery about Titan's location. Its broken remains were found by the unmanned robotic vehicle exactly where expected - on the sea floor, about 500 metres from the Titanic wreck, which obviously was its target that morning. The media circus counting down the oxygen left in the sub each day etc, when the men had died in a fraction of a second at the moment comms were lost with the mother ship, was a cruel farce, that must have greatly distressed the loved ones.
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