Not a good idea
OceanGate
Who'd've thought that tourist submarine trips to explore
RMS Titanic at a depth of 3800m below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean could be potentially hazardous? More to the point, who thought it was a good idea in the first place?
But, if the idea of suffocating to death at the bottom of the ocean doesn't do it for you, how about a catastrophe en route to space? Not letting the failure of Virgin Orbit get him down, that grinning buffoon Sir Richard Branson is going into commercial space tourism with Virgin Galactic.
Anyone grabbing those $450,000 hot tickets has more money than sense. They even make OceanGate's $250,000 depth charges
pale in comparison.
Virgin Galactic
If what goes up, explodes; what goes down, implodes. Recent talk of banging noises and conjecture over how many hours of oxygen was left for the Titan's occupants—a source of some obsession at Beeb Towers—appears to have been nothing but a distraction, a prolonged and nightmarish charade
in the words of James Cameron; and the US Coast Guard was not conducting a rescue mission, rather than confirming a tragedy.
If there's a bright side, it's that the end would've been quick, rather than drawn out and terrifying.
News that British actor Ross Kemp's visit to Titanic in OceanGate's Titan was cancelled over safety fears, revealed that Kemp's talent agent is nothing less than a full-fat professor!
Mr Kemp's agent at InterTalent, Prof Jonathan Shalit, said the production company had carried out checks on the OceanGate submersible, but had deemed it unsafe.
Rachel Russell, BBC News
Which could be something as lowly and run-of-the-mill as a professor of media and inclusivity at Bournemouth University. But not quite.
He also holds an honorary professorship, awarded in 2012, and honorary doctorate at Henley Business School of Reading University in recognition of his contribution to the arts, music and broadcasting.
Wackypeedeehyah!, Jonathan Shalit
Still, it's not like he's going to be troubling the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony anytime soon.
YouTube channel Fleet Files released a prescient video almost three months prior to the Titan's disappearance. It's more sensational than educational, and sounds like it was grabbed from a Wackypeedeeyah! entry.
Nevertheless…
(spooky) [cue Twilight Zone theme] (spooky)