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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1h

Can I propose that the comedy equivalent of Saudi sportswashing be called “funnylaundering”

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

It should really be called the Child

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever want to annoy transphobes, just point out that our Sun is non-binary.

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

Well we’re off to a cracking start, it’s actually the Camden Head in Angel. Should have guessed that. Doing the walk of shame to the Northern Line now. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

There’s loads of them still up for grabs. Less than 1% argon.

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

Correction: 21% of all iPhone Airs should be on O2.

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

The iPhone Air should only be available on O2.

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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 1d

"Your honour, the defendant says the reason he was going at 130mph when he drove through that orphanage was because his navigation app told him he 'gotta go fast', and that, as such, he cannot be held liable for those numerous lost souls"

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Sonic the Hedgehog has been added as a sidekick on GPS navigation app Waze. Users can replace their standard navigator's voice with Sonic's as they drive.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sonic-t...

Sonic the Hedgehog has been added as a sidekick on GPS navigation app Waze | VGC

Users can have Sonic direct them while driving…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 1d

London friends! I’m doing 5 minutes of standup tonight as part of Angel Comedy RAW, at the Camden Head pub in Camden. My first ever gig with Angel Comedy! Should be good fun 😊

www.angelcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...

Angel Comedy RAW Wednesdays (Free) | The Camden Head Comedy

Angel Comedy RAW Wednesdays (Free) on 15th October, 2025 at 7:30pm at The Camden Head. Hosted by Angel Comedy Club London.

www.angelcomedy.co.uk

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anna 🫧🍧💿 @bastilas.bsky.social · 4d

sometimes I think about this

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3d

If this isn't the last video that MTV ever plays, I will be so furious:

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 4d

Why didn't Davros just eat an apple a day

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 4d

Fun fact: in Louisiana, there's a depiction of the Norman Conquest told through the medium of faucets.

It's called the Bayou Tap History.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 5d

okay who did this?

A display of wild swimming books. At the bottom of the display, under all the other books is a copy of JAWS by Peter Benchley.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 8d

I'm attending a NATO conference today and someone has done the funniest thing possible with the name of their wi-fi network

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 7d

I buy all my gaming keyboards at Wasda.

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 8d

I’m reminded of when Daisy May Cooper appeared on @standardissueuk.bsky.social and told the story of some Americans coming to England to see Shakespeare’s birthplace, and asking for directions to “Stratford You-Ponnavon”.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 8d

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 9d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 9d

Went to see The Smashing Machine tonight; still can’t stop myself mentally adding “Gromit” to the end of the title

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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David Strathdee @davidstrathdee.bsky.social · 10d

I wish you could get gift vouchers for calories.

Like “happy birthday, here’s 5000 free calories, have all the bread and chips you can eat”.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10d

the thing no one tells you about preparing to launch A Thing in 2025 is that on top of working on The Thing you will also have to write one hundred million different bits of copy of varying lengths for all the different bits of the internet you're meant to have a presence in

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 18d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 18d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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