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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

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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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · 1h

Could be literally anybody

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2h

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."

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 3h

they hate me

Unread text from “Jonas Brothers” reading “Boo!”

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

but Hilo seemed like a really nice town

MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

i did not get to see ‘Akaka falls today

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 11h

i had a dream last night that i was in the military and all the big strong military men used me like a mop to clean the floors. Okay.

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

(because they had just sold out when i arrived today)

MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

i’d say if you’re in hawaii and you go to Tex drive-in, definitely do not get the burgers, but the fries were delicious and i’ll be returning for malasadas

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

looking away from it you can tell it’s general size and shape but you can’t see like, the hubble pic or anything

MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

rooster just crowed at 2am go back to sleep bitch

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 11h

it turns out you can also just kind of see Andromeda, but it’s not nearly as obvious. In fact, I kind of have to look away from it to see its dim light, like an old CRT TV that just got turned off. The pictures show something similar to looking directly at it — i.e. you can’t see the galactic disk.

Andromeda galaxy (M31) circled in a bright/gray sky photo. Cassiopeia is just above the visible treetop, forming an M whose left triangle points at M31.

Darker sky photo, without a circle around M31, which is located slightly up and left from the center of the image. Cassiopeia, the easiest way for me to find M31, is visible just down and right from the center of the image

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 13h

now to go nebula hunting

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 13h

my cis woman friends when their weirdly feminine male bestie turned out to be a garden variety woman

article reading rescuers learn that the exotic bird they found was actually a seagull covered in curry

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 13h

not quite, but the steam was gorgeous

Kilauea from relatively close up. Not sure if this was like 1000 feet or a mile. This is a long exposure so it looks brighter than it was.

Kilauea from relatively close up. Not sure if this was like 1000 feet or a mile. This is a long exposure so it looks brighter than it was, but it really did get much brighter during this photo!

Kilauea from relatively far away. This is definitely at least a mile, because I had to drive 1 mile to get here. The steam around the volcano has formed an accidental ring, being lit in deep red against a background of stars. The Sagittarius teapot in particular is pretty visible — I could see the milky way but my camera couldn’t.

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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 13h

Much to see. Much to learn.

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 20h

GayBot: Hi, I'm GayBot. Thanks for upgrading to Windows 11. Would you like me to show you around?
YES >NO<
GayBot: Great! Did you say 'no' because I'm gay?
YES >NO<
GayBot: Really? Do you have any gay friends?
YES NO >PREFER NOT TO ANSWER<

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 18h

please god let this volcano start spewing lava the moment i look at it

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Garrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · 18h

More like didn't see turtles am I right

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 18h

damn hilo kinda rocks

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 18h

aloha

selfie without bikini (scandalous) and without makeup: somehow hotter

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 19h

who want me fr

mirror selfie in a car window. i’m wearing a bikini and im wet with ocean water

mirror selfie with a peace sign in a car window

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 20h

truly i am blind as fuck

a sea turtle sleeping on the beach where i almost touched him with my shoe. sorry buddy! he is on a normal sandy beach with giant lava rocks

two sea turtles literally right next to where i was walking before. they are on a big lava formation near white gravel that sounds clinky like seashells when you walk on it. all of the turtles are sleeping near a huge tide pool.

6 sea turtles are visible encircling the tide pool. I later saw a 7th but didn’t take a picture. the one closest to the water is moving closer to the ocean, not that you can tell.

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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 20h

i almost stepped onto/into a sea turtle and i was like “OH FUCK wow how did i not notice that!” and then i backtracked and discovered that i had stepped within 1 foot of 7 separate sea turtles

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mean & evil @tape.bsky.social · Sep 4

i heard theyre inventing a new type of poop
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check out this music i really really like, its a free download on bandcamp its probably the best music in the world
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MACE!!! @physicssux.bsky.social · 1d

cool and nice :3

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