Subj : Re: Submarine Deaths
To   : disconnex
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 08:24:18

On 24 Jun 2023 at 11:39a, disconnex pondered and said...
 
 di> My hunch is that beneath the waters surface one of the last places on
 di> earth for things to be done out of sight and out of mind, and by pushing
 di> this story into the public mind sends the message to "stay away this is
 di> unsafe, nothing to se here worth dying for".
 di> 
 di> Imagine if they shed light on the deaths of migrants crossing the oceans
 di> with as much vigor as they did these 5 "explorers". They would create
 di> the general idea within the public to be against anyone coming to shore
 di> by boat because it would be too dangerous, and that would go against
 di> their agenda.

I dunno.  Sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory, my dude.

Occam's Razor almost certainly applies here.  Years in, we've
become inured to migrants dying crossing the Med; but billionaires
trapped in a sub on the bottom of the ocean next to the wreck
of the Titanic?

Now that's a juicy story.

I really don't think that it's more complex than that.

Andrew's point about _why_ people may want to visit the
Titanic seems sound to me, but that it costs a quarter
of a million US to go still seems kind of macabre.

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