I’m so claustrophobic there’s no way in hell you’d ever get me in that thing in the ocean. I’m not even sure I could handle sitting in it on dry land 1000 miles from any body of water I have extreme claustrophobia
every time I think about that guy who went spelunking into really tight caves and got stuck headfirst and couldn’t get out and died. I get the heebie-jeebies.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died when the Titan submersible imploded during a voyage to the famed Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic in June 2023. No one survived the trip aboard the experimental submersible owned by OceanGate, a company in Washington state that has since suspended operations.
The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence.
A jury has awarded $116 million to the family of one of five people killed in a no-door helicopter. The craft crashed and sank in a New York City river in 2018 and left passengers trapped in their safety harnesses. The verdict came this week in the lawsuit over the death of 26-year-old Trevor...