It had made the journey a few other times, so the rating wasn’t really the issue. But the repeated descents must have weakened the hull, and this was the time it didn’t make it.

Looks like they are setting up a media scrum at 3PM EST. I’m guessing that they’ve mostly likely found the wreckage, or I don’t think they’d be perform a press briefing mid-day on a Thursday.

It beer canned and tore apart right at the hour 45 minute mark. They’ve all been dead since Monday.

Not enough hours to matter. Because its not like they would make that choice in the first hour that they had trouble.

Given that fathers were with sons, when a day goes by or two, without rescue, how many hours would those fathers gift to their sons?

And in news getting significantly less coverage:

They order their filet mignon well done with ketchup.

“If they’d just lost comms they woulda certainly surfaced immediately”

The was a QOTD back in early May titled “What Car’s Special Edition Wasn’t Really All That Special?”. Somehow this one slipped through the cracks and would’ve taken the the #1 spot on that list, hands down.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Suffocating to death in the pitch black as batteries fail would be truly terrifying.

Honestly - if they’re still underwater, I hope you’re right. A catastrophic failure would be the most compassionate outcome. The pressure is so great that if that sub failed, structurally, they wouldn’t have even known it. Suffocating to death in the pitch black as batteries fail would be truly terrifying. And I…

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending how you look at it, my guess is they were gone a few days ago when contact was lost. If they’d just lost comms they woulda certainly surfaced immediately, but I’m thinking they lost comms b/c of a yet to be determined catastrophic equipment failure.

This situation is nightmarish enough, but at this point people have to be realistic. There’s less than a half-dozen submersibles on earth capable of diving to that depth, and it’s been said none of them are within 20 hours of being at the site. And even if they were, I don’t believe any of them have to ability to…

It immediately made the ID.4 a non-buy for us. The capacitive slide for volume was stupid. Just give me a damn knob.

[CarCo Inc, HQ, interior. And aide rushes in to the CEOs office]

The CEO was a huge massive idiot, and it’s clear that under his direction the company didn’t take safety as seriously as it should, but holy hell that’s an editorialized headline right there. It’s basically a blatant misrepresentation of what the guy said.  Like I said before, even what he actually said should be…

What’s the old saying? Regulations are written in blood?

Because I’m sure that unsupervised, they will raise rates only enough to cover increased costs.

/s

That’s interesting, my insurance actually got cheaper on my last renewal a few days ago, and I have several motorcycles.  Though I am in San Diego, maybe not the hot bed that San Francisco is right now for claims.