Shipwrecks, ‘Submarines’, and the Cost of Billionaire Boredom.
Overall thoughts on this missing submarine, and billionaires in general.
I’ve been following that story about the missing submarine just like everyone else. I’ve been keeping tabs on updates about that missing deep sea vessel that carried five people — two of them billionaires — deep into the depths of the ocean, miles below the surface so they could go to see the site of the wreck of the RMS Titanic, watching as the amount of oxygen they had left slowly dwindled until now, it has run out.
These five men, one of them just nineteen years old, spent their last days alive in a vessel the size of a minivan without food or water. They’re quite literally sitting in their own filth and probably vomit, too as panic and CO2 poisoning set in, the little oxygen they had filled with the smells of all of it miles below the surface in the darkness and ice cold temperatures. Every hour that went by the fear and panic is intensifying until at some point, they come to terms with their fate and are probably just wishing for death to take them.
I genuinely cannot imagine a worse way to go and of course I absolutely sympathize with them on a human level, but if we’re being completely honest I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling a certain level of pure frustration…
