OceanGate Jeopardy

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Every now and then whether by design or not, the nonstop 24-hour news cycle covers a story like no other โ€“ a literal dam break of reporting.

Enter OceanGateโ€™s ill-famed submersible: โ€œTitan.โ€

When Titan lost communications and went missing as they submerged to view the Titanic in the North Atlantic, vast resources that rivaled the exhaustive media coverage were deployed to rescue the five occupants.  

Occurring at the same time was one of the worst tragedies on the Mediterranean Sea.  A fishing boat carrying about 750 migrants capsized with over 500 reported missing.  If this is your first-time hearing about it, you are not alone. 

Wealthy guys climb into a defectively designed submersible and the whole world stops and sends resources to help.  Deep down, the left loves billionaires.  Meanwhile, 750 capsize at the same time with miniscule coverage or care.  The woke media failed those they claim to champion.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told a Teledyne Marine podcast, โ€œexpertise was unnecessaryโ€ because โ€œanybody can drive the subโ€ with a cheap Amazon video game joystick.  Maybe Rush forgot to bring extra batteries?  Such a cavalier attitude about how modestly Titan was constructed only compounded the risks.

Rush continued, โ€œWhen I started the business, one of the things youโ€™ll find, there are other sub-operators out there, but they typically have, gentlemen who are ex-military submariners โ€ฆ a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys. I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational.โ€ 

Rush boasted his crew included a high school hammer thrower and a winter surfer. Rush proved woke can be deadly and it is best to go with proven commodities even if that means old, ex-military, white guys. 

Guess who was out and under the sea searching for him? 

As tragic as it was, eventually OceanGateโ€™s doomed submersible will be another footnote of Titanic lore. I can even see it as a future category on Jeopardy.

OceanGate for $100: Titanโ€™s passengers were disproportionately white, woke and wealthy, having paid $250,000/seat on the ill-fated submersible, while their survival was the same as the original vessel they were seeking. 

โ€œWhat is the ongoing fascination with the Titanic.โ€   

The drama unfolded like a disaster movie. The companyโ€™s sardonic name โ€“ OceanGate โ€“ was tailored for controversy.  The debris field was 1600 feet from the bow of the Titanic.

OceanGate for $200: Titan was a disaster in the making, but it did succeed in this.

โ€œWhat is an authentic Titanic experience.โ€

Poorly planned, staffed, and arrogantly undertaken was met with predictable results.  However, millions were spent in the attempted rescue and now salvage.  It is admirable to push boundaries and incur risks to explore new frontiers.  Nonetheless, this was not a โ€œnew frontier.โ€  It was an old shipwreck found years ago with plenty of canned footage available. Private citizens taking expensive and incredible risks should be billed for their trouble.

OceanGate for $300: While descending onboard the Titan what is better than having a billion dollars?  

โ€œWhat is a safe way out.โ€    

The historic Titanic shipwreck should be off limits to any further dives. Over 1500 lost their lives in this watery graveyard. Why canโ€™t we allow those souls who perished there in 1912 to rest in peace?  Rather, folks are profiteering from the tragedy more than a century later.

OceanGate for $400: According to ancient Greek Mythology, Titanโ€™s name in Neptunism means.

โ€œWhat is a death tube.โ€ 

The White House knew the Navy detected Titanโ€™s implosion, yet the search continued with all the confidential information safely stored in Joe Bidenโ€™s Corvetteโ€™s glovebox. The Navy withholds this information as another sea service, the Coast Guard, is conducting rescue operations. And yet folks wonder why government trust is at a low point.

OceanGate for $500: The deadly implosion of the Titan has the same effect on leftists when asked this question. 

โ€œWhat is a woman?โ€

Schadenfreude aside, the fate of both the Titanic and Titan have eerily similar causes of arrogance, foolishness, and a deceitful sense of infallibility. 

Titan was another case of preventable overindulgence.

Perhaps both of these tragedies from the Mediterranean to the North Atlantic will instill a much greater reverence for the value of human life โ€“ including life in the womb โ€“ the most innocent life there is. 

Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca is a New York City native and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who writes for TTC. He resides in the Pennsylvania Coal Region. His work can also be found in The American Spectator, NewsBreak, Daily Item, Republican Herald, Standard Speaker, The Remnant Newspaper, Gettysburg Times, Daily Review, The News-Item, Standard Journal and more.

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