• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      He might fund people who are though (…though I wish we didn’t have a system that would need that…)

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        Well anyone ‘could’ fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.

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      The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.

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          In a 2022 interview with CBC News, OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton Rush said the goal of the repeated subaquatic expeditions is to offer researchers an opportunity to analyze changes surrounding the sunken ship, including the development of coral reefs, decay of the ship’s metal and changes to the ocean’s current.