Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : Blue White
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 08:12:54

On 23 Jun 2023 at 05:39p, Blue White pondered and said...
 
 BW>  te> These people paid obscene amounts of money to descend to the
 BW>  te> wreck site of the Titanic and do what, exactly?  Gawk at the
 BW>  te> hubris and folly of man?  It's macabre.
 BW> 
 BW> The one thing I have not gleaned from any of the coverage is whether or
 BW> not the sub had successfully been to that depth before.

My understanding is that they had, but I agree its far
from clear from the coverage.

 BW>  Hu> This catastrophy is reminent of the space shuttle.
 BW> 
 BW>  te> I mean, a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean last week
 BW>  te> and hundreds of people died, but we didn't see wall-to-wall
 BW>  te> coverage of that.
 BW> 
 BW> We might have if it had capsized off of our coast.  I wonder what the
 BW> coverage was like in the country/ies near where it happened?

That's a fair point; I am curious what the Greek press has
to say about the whole thing.

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