it appears the crew on the submersible were comprised of
- The guy who founded the company who built the sub.
- The guy who flew on the blue origin rocket.
- Two other folks who paid the ticket to watch.
- Someone who actually did meaningful study on Titanic, French Explorer and academic.
So there were people on board who weren't simply tourists, people trying to use that submersible as the tool it could be for study of the wreck.
Just like there have been crewed Blue Origin flights where the participants actually used their time in weightlesness to tend experiments and perform them.
The point of this first post, as snarky as I made it, was to point out the hubris of it all, putting yourself in that seat not for the potential it holds to better you or your study or the world as a whole, but because it's something you can afford to do and think is fun.
If you're climbing on that rocket or in that submarine just for fun as a joyride, you can still lose it all in the same way as people who take that flight or dive seriously for the power it has to benefit their field and the world.
I think that's hopefully a better, less snarky summation of my point?
there that's the phrase that just hit me like a sack of bricks.
