Comments by "Hookah Smoking Caterpillar" (@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar) on "British billionaire on missing submersible on Titanic expedition | ITV News" video.

  1. People visi Langenark cemetery in West Flanders, Belgium (been there myself, in fact). There is a communal grave as well as the individual plots. The communal grave holds the remains of about 44,000 German soldiers from the First World War and is basically an underground chamber. Unfortunately, it occasionally gets desecrated by people breaking into it. Other than the water and the cost there's no real difference.
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  2.  @cutie5110  Your life is at risk everywhere. You could trip on a path and crack your skull open on a gravestone.
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  3. I think it would be quite terrifying in terms of what is going through your head. But you would want, assuming there hasn't been a catastrophic implosion of the sub, to try and calm yourself and slow your breathing to preserve oxygen and eventually, I guess, you would pass out as the oxygen becomes stale before you eventually died. The worst part would be knowing there was nothing you could do to try and help yourself other than control your breathing and stopping your mind racing.
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  4. It's designed to deal with the pressures - it even says that on the clip. Did you bother to watch it?
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  5. Do people not visit graveyards in you country? The desecration is to remove things, not visit it.
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  6. Each to their own. You could trip and break your neck getting out of bed in the morning, I mean, why take the risk? Everything we do has risks, it wouldn't surprise me to find that these mini-subs are statistically safer than getting in a car and driving to work. The fact this is making international news shows just how rare it is, plus the Titanic element, I suppose.
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  7. Tell them to shut up. It saves oxygen and gives you potentially a longer time in which to be rescued.
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  8. Bodies would be eaten and the bones would disarticulate and be scattered before, most likely also being consumed. China plates can still be seen in the wreck and some have been recovered, the only teal difference is that bones are organic, and thus a potential food source for something and plates are not.
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  9.  @hotmess2766  Not true. Thomas Andrews, the designer, said in a newspaper interview that Titanic was "virtually unsinkable." The press of 1912 being no different than the press today decided to drop the caveat of "virtually" and just went with "unsinkable." The rest, as they say, is history.
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  10. I don't see how not having enough lifeboats on board for everyone (because you think people will think your ship is unsafe if they see them all - the irony) has anything to do with mini-subs.
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  11.  @animateddepression  Just a tiny, weeny little bit of exaggeration there, I feel.
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  12. You're a martine engineer are you?? Qualified to speak on the size if hatches??
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  13. As are many women
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  14.  @DarkPlaysThings  That assumes you have ruled out any possibility of rescue. People tend to hang on to the merest threads.
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  15.  @kurtdowney1489  I suspect like many people, I have no fear of death. Things will just stop and that's it, game over. But, yeah, quick, with as little fore-knowledge and pain - that's the best.
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  16. Probably safer than you getting in your car and driving to work, at a guess.
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  17.  @mogreen19  I think it depends on character and personality. Not job.
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  18. Bollocks!
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  19.  @theowatchnerd  I suspect you may well be right.
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  20.  @theowatchnerd  I've visited many WW1 ones, some small, some huge, some British, some German. Langemark has a communal grave for 40,000 WW1 German dead.
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  21.  daysRnumbered  You don't have a fight or flight response if you trip and break your neck.
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  22.  daysRnumbered  A broken neck can kill - good luck with that phone call.
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  23.  daysRnumbered  Not if they are dead they haven't.
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  24.  @ismailucar2608  No, you are not a maritime engineer. You've said it yourself you have an interest in industrial engineering. Not the same thing by a million miles.
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  25.  @ismailucar2608  You are not qualified, by your own admission. Your opinion warrants no attention, especially as we don't even know what has happened.
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  26. FFS, does everything have to be a conspiracy theory?? Cock-up is a far more likely probability.
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  27.  @DuckieMcduck  Tosh!
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  28.  @mogreen19  I don't think any amount of training or experience can prepare you for what, if they are still alive, would seem like an almost inevitable demise. I guess your t and e might give you some comfort about what efforts are likely being made to find you, but you would also have a greater sense of the realties of actually achieving that.
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  29.  @551moley  I'm sorry, I don't understand you comment.
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  30.  @ChrisAndCats  They do, my sister visited Auschwitz. I'm not sure I feel about visiting. I think I would probably find it overwhelming.
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  31.  @MrDanny91  Dead is dead. People caught inside the ship, or pulled under as it sank would have died comparatively quickly. Nobody really knows how many survived, and then froze in the water. Only for those who died inside the ship can the wreck really be considered a grave. For the rest who perished, other than those whose bodies were recovered, it is symbolic - no different really than say the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium - as their remains would be scattered across a vast area.
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