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The outcome everyone knew would happen. I don't understand the desire to go to that depth to see a sunken ship when I presume there is camera footage of it available. You can't get out and do anything, your view is probably pretty crappy given the thickness of any see through material. I see the allure with Everest and the view for your 60 seconds at the top must be impressive and it is a physical feat. But a sunken ship? I don't get it.

It would be pretty cool to send down a camera to get footage all around it at various angles and then build an app for a VR headset.

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There is a difference to seeing it yourself. Hugely different.

Getting a submarine certified to commercially dive it is another magnitude of cost compared to this venture.

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

The desire is motivated 100% by bragging rights for the uber rich. So they can recant their journey as an intrepid explorer (/s) at a cocktail party with their other smug uber rich friends. Same for going to space.

This is such a bad take. As if rich people suddenly lose the ability to feel novelty. As if a normal person going to see the grand canyon is "So they can recant their journey as an intrepid explorer (/s) at <a neighborhood barbecue.>"

Maybe, just maybe, the ultra rich have similar motivations as most other people and want to see cool shit. They just have way more spending money to make whatever they want a reality.

> It would be pretty cool to send down a camera to get footage all around it at various angles and then build an app for a VR headset.

Recently they published a full 3d scan of the Titanic wreck constructed from 700,000 images taken.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602182

That looks incredible. Would be really cool to explore in VR.

This could be a killer Vision Pro commercial, like the “Apple Watch saved my life” ads.

If you compare to the submersible trip, Vision Pro is quite the bargain.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-bx_E5OkM

> when I presume there is camera footage of it available.

Not sure if this is sarcasm...

I think they mean footage of the Titanic.

There is a whole movie with footage filmed by James Cameron over a dozen dives. It won an Academy Award…

What's it called?

Avatar - The Way of Water

The camera footage is probably better than whatever you could see through a few inches of porthole

Yes that was the intent with my comment. A specialized camera for that depth is going to capture better images than what you'll see thru whatever "window" is on the sub.

I was talking about the movie Titanic…

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