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I had no idea that "tourists" visited Titanic. Is this the new thing after Everest became crowded?

Costs about $250k per person - https://oceangateexpeditions.com/tour/titanic-expedition/ (Site looks to be down at the moment, probably overloaded due to people searching after this news). I don't think it's particularly crowded, but certainly could become one day in theory.

Cached Link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bwPF96...

The article mentions $250k/person

Two way ticket ..

Is there the option of a one way ticket? Do they drop you off in the wreck of the Titanic and leave you there?

Maybe it's for if you want rescuing from the wreck.

which wreck. for that kind of money, i hope it's specified.

"Goliath Awaits is a 1981 American made-for-television action adventure science fiction thriller... about an ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1939 whose wreck is discovered in 1981, with over 300 survivors and their descendants living in an air bubble inside the ship."[1]

Watched it as a kid, and it definitely stuck in my head. Quite impressive cast.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_Awaits

And the movie is in the public domain, so you can stream it on the the internet archive!

https://archive.org/details/goliathawaits1981

is it really? the wikipedia article says it was first broadcast in 1981

It was donated to the public domain by the creators. If you follow the link to IA it's explained there.

I don't see it I'm afraid. Yes, it says it's CC0, but that doesn't mean it's actually true...

I mean you have to trust that the IA did their due diligence. I trust them.

It seems that they just did that.

We'd have to look at the details of the contract to see if half of the ticket price is refunded in the event that they bring you to the Titanic but don't bring you back to the surface.

I would prefer to be left there.

You're right, Google showed $125k from other articles and some looking at this earlier (a year or so ago) and $125k sounded right. I guess they doubled it!

So roughly the cost of a first class ticket. (In today's dollars.)

With identical results.

I think I'd prefer drowning to whatever horrors happen when your submersible runs out of life support at the bottom of the ocean.

Surely if they slowly run out of air they won't be fully conscious when there is none.

Yeah I suppose that would be the ideal outcome. I was thinking of some kind of depressurization scenarios where they get crushed by 300 atmospheres worth of pressure.

Wouldn't that be much faster than drowning though?

> Costs about $250k per person

Actually, the trip down is free. The $250K is to bring you back... ;-)

I think it was George Carlin who asked why people say "have a safe flight" instead of "have a safe landing."

These accounts are apparently of one of the participants (called "mission specialists" in Ocean Gate Expeditions parlance):

https://twitter.com/ActionAviation0 https://www.instagram.com/p/CtmxGHvs1yE/

I was told by WIRED that Richard Branson was offering suborbital spaceflights soon- back in 2005.

https://www.amazon.com/Wired-Magazine-January-Richard-Galact...

Not only the Titanic, but someone recently started bringing tourists to the Marianas Trench.

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