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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 5h

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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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jan 30

trying to explain the american vice president to a stranger: imagine if the antichrist was from ohio

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · Jan 30

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · Jan 30

I mean yes, there is such a concept in Christianity. It appears quite notably in the letters of Paul, for instance, where it’s a concept he *relentlessly* argues against, and in the Gospel where it’s a concept Jesus very much repeatedly scorns. So it is technically in there!

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Problems Clown, Esq. @deltavelocity.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they really should have gone all the way to Moscow. Instead they just…turned around? Cuz the guy they were marching on asked them not to?

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 2d

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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Ayo Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously just go back to being a Baptist

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2d

It really is important to note how much Bondi is on TV and how dissimilar this is from literally any other AG, R or D.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi claims that cities aiding residents hurt by immigration raids is breaking the law

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Prestige journalism really deserves the agonizing decades long death it's suffering through, it just sucks we have to live in the rubble of their hubris and maliciousness

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

"the only person who truly mourns you is Candace Owens" should be nightmare fuel to all of these people

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Airplanes.gov.uk @planeyboys.bsky.social · 2d

TOGA & apply cream #planeposting #planeyboys

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Problems Clown, Esq. @deltavelocity.bsky.social · 2d

the images of the USS New Jersey in dry dock for repairs last year are still kind of surreal tbh

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · Jul 19

Painting done by Rick Guidice for Ames Research Center for Pioneer 10's Jupiter slingshot.

The planet Jupiter stands center, surrounded by the fiery paints that symbolize both the stars and Jupiter. A humanoid person stands faintly behind the planet, meant as if they are 'throwing' something to indicate the slingshot of Pioneer coming in a fiery race around Jupiter and back out deeper into the solar system.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

this is why the only option left is the raging hot Stove

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2d

The thing is there are no guardrails that can withstand the full force of 45% of the electorate polarized into either accepting authoritarianism or not finding it a dealbreaker. Whatever system you design, if you don’t figure out how to push that number down, your guardrails can’t meet tolerances.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Problems Clown, Esq. @deltavelocity.bsky.social · 2d

The issue is that Joe Biden’s core instincts on most issues were solidly locked at where they were in ~1970, which was good for some issues (unions, Russia) and bad for others (Israel, obviously)

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 3d

Often think about Obama mocking Romney at the third debate as a paranoid Reaganite relic for correctly identifying Fascist Russia as an ascendant threat because it would distract from the far more important task of extralegally blowing up random al-Qaeda No. 12s in Pakistan and weddings in Yemen

Punk in Rehab @midwestfolkpunk.bsky.social · 3d

Obama LOVED drone strikes.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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grimely.bsky.social @grimely.bsky.social · 2d

"The executive has usurped the power of the purse to pay for a standing army" is something that the Founders very explicitly wanted to prevent from ever happening but, ah, well, nevertheless

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 3d

1985 concept for a Orbital Transfer Vehicle.
It used aerobraking to return payloads from GEO to LEO without a braking burn, and with its lifting body design, perhaps get a free inclination change out of it too. But, it would be dead weight in all other maneuvers.

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Problems Clown, Esq. @deltavelocity.bsky.social · 5d

Do you think Assad is a wargamer. I feel like he’d be a big fan of TNO

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 5d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5d

Some thirteen year old from Arkansas: Mooooooooom, former president of Syria bashar al-assad is making fun of me on Fortnite

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 5d

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 6d

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

Gerisch, a 46-year-old sales executive, isn’t sure whether he and his family will stay put. SB 79 would allow five-story residential buildings on his and other nearby streets, which sit within a half-mile of a Metro K Line light rail station.

“I feel like I’ve been blindsided,” he said. “A lot of us were.”

Under SB 79, developers would be permitted to build up to nine-story residential buildings adjacent to subway stops, seven stories within a quarter-mile of them and six stories within a half-mile — overriding local planning and zoning rules.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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