As should anyone attending a Blink 182 concert.
Given the choice to see them for reasonable price i’d take it, but if i had stuff going on with my family i would find it hard to justify attending.
This kid knows how to set priorities. He’ll go far in the business world.
More importantly, according to those articles, among the standard equipment that they decided not to burden the sub with was a LOCATOR BEACON! The lack of which is now posing a problem.
Concerts are for closers
I don’t really understand this, either. What was he going to see on the 36th dive that he hadn’t already seen dozens of times already?
In the onboard toilet, of course:
I can see the need to be defensive about Blink-182; but it’s hard to come up with imagine what value would be derived from having him fretting on the sidelines.
For sure. On paper it might be nice to go do something to get your mind off a bad situation, but having a parent lost in a sub is a few steps past bad.
No, underwater GPS is not a thing, and it’s incredibly disingenuous of the writer to imply that the sub makers have omitted something that they couldn’t possibly have fitted.
GNSS systems work at microwave frequencies which cannot be received underwater. The only radio signals that can practically be received underwater operate at ultra low frequencies and lower at which frequencies it take minutes to transmit or receive even the simplest messages. GNSS systems rely on measuring signal arrival times in billionths of a second, not minutes.
The civilian service of the US Navstar GPS service operates at 1575.42MHz and 1227.6 MHz and at those frequencies is attenuated to essentially nothing by a relatively thin layer of water. The same limitations obviously apply to the military and aviation services as the laws of physics don’t discriminate.
Our daughter texted us that story and reminded us that if we were missing and she had tickets to BTS she would resume the search after the concert.
Thing is, he could have gone to the concert and not posted about it.
Then again, this guy has a history of questionable actions on social media. Like a felony arrest for stalking women and threatening to blow up a concert they attended.
I’ve seen Garriott at Dragon Con a few times. He talked once about his Titanic dive, and an incident he realized could have easily been fatal. It sounded like an experience he would not try a second time.
“INNOVATION. Those pesky safety measures won’t get in the way of my brilliance and greatness”, said the CEO’s famous last words.
Primarily, you’re prosecuted in the country in which your boat is registered, but other jurisdictions include your country of origin, or your victim’s country of origin. Or, interestingly, if any country decides that the murder you committed falls into the definition of piracy, they can choose to prosecute you.
I’m having the same problem.
On the one hand, it would/will be a horrible way to die.
On the other hand, 5 less Billionaires who paid for a “risky experience” just found out that risk is real and has consequences that all their money won’t get them out of.
5 billionaires
2 billionaires, 1 billionaire’s son, 1 techbro and 1 explorer
On a three hour tour, a three hour tour!
