I can’t be the only idiot who didn’t realize the Titanic went down that close to Maine/Newfoundland. I’m 38 years old and never once even thought about where they actually sank.
Yes, Earth do not be flat after all.
Around the same age and this was my main takeaway from all this as well. One of my parents was watching the BBC with their coverage of it and I saw the map yesterday and was like wow, was it really that close? What was I doing in school?
I thought it was more in the centre of the Atlantic. Poor bastards almost made it.
Yeah I felt a little dumb seeing that. I swear I must have known that at some point. Won’t forget it this time though :S
Me too, and I did look up “Iceberg Alley” way back when.
It extends in the east here: Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Look them up on Wikipedia if you’re interested, I had to.
For the curious. I didn’t realize it was this close
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That’s awful, but perhaps better than stuck for hours or days inside of a dead, dark, cold submarine at the bottom of the ocean as the oxygen slowly runs out.
My exact thoughts. Hypoxia is a terrible way to go.
Is it? I thought you’d just get confused and drowsy until you sleep forever.
May they rest in peace.
Question… why wasn’t this an unmanned, remotely controlled submarine with a front-mounted camera? If it had been destroyed, that would have been a lot of money up in smoke, but no lives lost.
Cause then they couldn’t hold over their billionaire friends head’s that they’ve actually been there!
I will not celebrate peoples’ deaths, but I will not necessarily mourn them either. Their relatives certainly did not ask for this (regardless what you think of them), and they have to deal with this for the rest of their lives. Maybe some will get over this, maybe some will not.
At least it’s a relief that there was no suffering.
