I suspect many rich people are desensitised to fun. They spend more and more, on more and more adventurous bs, out of sheer boredom.
Like how an addict’s tolerance to their drug of choice grows and grows. So you’re telling me not being ultra mega rich is allowing me to maintain my levels of fun. Huzzah!
I think it would be pretty cool to see but in no fucking way is it worth trying to get there.
Specially if you consider its actually WAY WAY easier for us technologically to go into space than the god damn Deep sea atm. Specially if you want to put people down there so it needs a space with O2 inside and everything.
I did some basic scuba diving and the coolest thing I saw was definitely a ship wreck. I have pictures of the dive, but they simply don’t do it justice.
This was only at 17m depth though, so risk was okay as long as you have the right training and are smart about it.
The Titanic is legendary and must be amazing to see. The fact that you’re one of the few people to witness it, definitely adds to the appeal.
Do I think it’s worth $250,000 and/or the risk? Definitely not.
For others, that amount if money is just not and issue (sadly), and the risks were not explained clearly to them.
Why do people want to see a concert in person, or a famous building, or a piece of art? You can see the Mona Lisa anywhere in the world on your computer screen, why would you want to go to see the actual picture itself? There are better videos of a Beyonce concert on YouTube than you’ll get from a seat in the audience. A football game on ESPN has better coverage than a stadium seat. Why do any of that?
Because the thing itself is special. Viewing it through the screen isn’t the same as being there, as having your breath taken away as the sheer enormity of the moment hits you.
I think some of it is the exclusivity— it’s hard af to there obvious. And some of it is the same impulse people have for going through abandoned buildings. They want to see the decay/ruins.
Because it’s cool
I think visiting a part of history really helps a person appreciate what happened. Seeing something in-person is sometimes just so much more of an experience than a video. I personally would be pretty scared to go in a submarine but I can see the appeal to have a unique historical experience.
The Titanic was only found in 1985. Imagine if we found the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 today intact at the bottom of the ocean. Also it wasn’t just some common vehicle like a Boeing 777, the titanic was the biggest luxury ship ever built at the time. So change Malaysian Airlines flight 370 with Air Force One for cultural parity.
It would be incredibly interesting for someone of our generation to visit it. But a young person in 2060 would just ask why anyone would find an old airplane wreck of any interest.
Also, it speaks to the imagination. It’s a brilliant tale of hubris; the ship touted to be unsinkable brought down by an iceberg.
I get it. If I had stupid amounts of money and someone was like, “hey wanna go see the Titanic?” I’d be like, “nah, I saw it in theaters and it was too long. Oh wait you mean the actual Titanic?! Fuck yeah!”
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You want to go see the Titanic?
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Nah, it’s too long
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No, I meant the actual wreck of the Titanic
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I know. It’s like 270 meters…
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I have a side-question: do they actually see the Titanic directly, when they go down there? It seemed from the pictures that there was only a computer screen in that submersible, and no window. Is it all about seeing it on the screen and feeling the moves of the submersible synchronized to it? That experience feels easily replicable from the surface…
I don’t understand why one would think there is no window. I’ve read a couple of comments like that. The thing is called “cyclops”, articles discuss the large porthole dome window, and it’s fairly visible in photos.
At the time I had only seen pictures from an angle where the window couldn’t be seen, so yeah it didn’t make sense to me at the time. I also had not read anywhere about the Cyclops name before just now, or read articles about the vessel itself. I’m not sure what there is to be puzzled about, we’re similarly not all similarly caught up, we just haven’t all read the same articles.
