Tag: Disasters

They Get FEMA But Not You

I live on the Gulf Coast and we are always vigilant during storm season and FEMA is always there to help out if there is a horrendous storm….but now with this prick in the White House some disasters may go without FEMA help….

I read Little Donny Do-Little has authorized FEMA funds but not for everybody….

President Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota, and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe late Wednesday, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois, and Maryland and leaving other states waiting longer for answers. The decisions fell mostly along party lines, with Trump touting on social media Wednesday that he had “won BIG” in Alaska in the last three presidential elections and that it was his “honor” to deliver for the “incredible Patriots” of Missouri, a state he also won three times, the AP reports.

The disaster declarations authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support recipients with federal financial assistance to repair public infrastructure damaged by disasters and, in some cases, provide survivors money for repairs and temporary housing.

  • While Trump has approved more disaster declarations than he’s denied this year, he has also repeatedly floated the idea of “phasing out” FEMA, saying he wants states to take more responsibility for disaster response and recovery. States already take the lead in disasters but depend on federal assistance when the needs exceed what they can manage alone. Trump has taken longer to approve disaster declaration requests than any previous administration, including his first, according to an AP analysis.
  • The states approved for disaster declarations include Alaska, which filed an expedited request after experiencing back-to-back storms this month that wrecked coastal villages, displaced 2,000 residents, and killed at least one person. Trump approved a 100% cost share of disaster-related expenses for 90 days.
  • North Dakota and Nebraska will also receive public assistance for August severe weather, and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota was approved for both public and individual assistance for a June storm that felled thousands of trees across its tribal lands.
  • Trump denied four requests, including Maryland’s appeal for reconsideration after the state was denied a disaster declaration for May flooding that severely impacted the state’s two westernmost counties.
  • Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, denounced the decision in a statement Thursday, calling the final denial “deeply frustrating.” “President Trump and his Administration have politicized disaster relief, and our communities are the ones who will pay the price,” said Moore. Maryland met the conditions necessary to qualify for public assistance, according to a preliminary damage assessment, but Trump, who has the final decision on the declarations, denied the state’s request.
  • Trump also denied Vermont a major disaster declaration for July 10 floods after the state waited over nine weeks for a decision. The damages far exceed what some of the small towns impacted can afford on their own, said Eric Forand, Vermont’s emergency management director.
  • The other denials included an application from Illinois for individual assistance for three counties impacted in July by severe storms and flooding, and one from Alaska to rebuild a public safety building that burned in a July electrical fire.

Now that is a soul-less son-of-a-bitch!

How can anyone support the likes of this SOB?

In my book anyone that supports or agrees with these types of decisions is a worthless piece of excrement.

Is this how a leader should treat his fellow citizens?

If you are Donny then yes it is….it is all about retaliation and revenge not what is best for the country.

This asshole makes me sick!

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Is FEMA doomed?

I live in a hurricane zone and we have had many but a couple of real devastating storms, Camille and Katrina, and we got a lot of aid and help from FEMA…..and we are not alone anywhere that there was a major disaster whether it be hurricanes, floods, etc FEMA was there to lend a helping hand….but thanx to your clueless leader that type of help may be ending…..

A few folks have taken it upon themselves to try and let the country know what danger are lurking in the Trump Administration….

Days before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA employees have issued a stark warning to Congress: the Trump administration’s cuts could leave the nation dangerously unprepared for the next major disaster. In a letter dubbed the “Katrina Declaration,” 182 current FEMA staffers criticized White House plans to shrink the agency and shift disaster response duties—and costs—to the states. The employees argue that such moves risk not only FEMA’s future, but also the readiness of the nation to handle large-scale emergencies, per the New York Times. “Decisions made by the current administration,” they wrote, could lead to “the effective dissolution of FEMA itself and the abandonment of the American people.”

Among the grievances: the Trump administration’s appointment of two acting FEMA chiefs lacking emergency management experience, new spending rules that have slowed FEMA’s disaster response, and the elimination of billions of dollars in grants aimed at disaster preparedness. Additionally, survivors now must provide email addresses to access FEMA aid, a hurdle for those with limited internet. The letter’s signatories argue the Trump administration is blatantly ignoring requirements of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, including a provision preventing the Homeland Security secretary from interfering with FEMA. Most signed anonymously, fearing retaliation. Nearly 140 EPA employees were put on leave following a similar letter of dissent last month, per the Washington Post.

Trump is the kiss of death for FEMA and in return the kiss of death for people affected by a disaster……and transferring the cost to the states is a stupid idea for most of those effected are dirt poor and cannot afford the programs they have now.

So the heart-less SOB in DC will make damn sure that people suffering continues and will buy another gold ornament for his fireplace.

Side note:  i heard that 30+ employees of FEMA have been put on leave for criticizing the agency.

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And Then The Rains Came

For week now the major story in the MSM has been the rains then flooding in Texas that has killed 100+ people and 150+ still missing presumed dead….there has been lots of back and forth on blame for this tragedy….there seems to be a wealth of misinformation in the saga so far….

I begin with an article in France24….

The catastrophic floods over the weekend have left more than a 100 people dead, including more than two dozen girls and counselors at a riverside summer camp, with rescuers racing on Tuesday to search for dozens of people still missing.

Multiple left-leaning accounts on the platform X peddled the unfounded claim that staffing cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS) by President Donald Trump’s administration had “degraded” its forecasting ability.

While the NWS, like other agencies, has experienced deep staffing and budget cuts under the Trump administration, experts say its forecasters rose to the challenge despite the constraints.

“There have been claims that (weather agencies) did not foresee catastrophic (Texas) floods — but that’s simply not true,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, wrote on Bluesky.

Read On….

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250708-texas-floods-misinformation-across-political-spectrum-sows-confusion

Then as usual there is a wealth stupid coming from Donny and his minions….

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem renewed her call Wednesday to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency calling it “slow to respond” to the deadly floods that have killed more than 120 people in Texas over the past week.

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Multiple sources said Noem waited until Monday to authorize the deployment of these search and rescue teams, more than 72 hours after the flooding began. Aerial imagery to aid in the search was also delayed waiting for Noem’s approval.

Noem used these very delays to justify her calls to disband FEMA entirely.

“Federal emergency management should be state and locally led, rather than how it has operated for decades,” she said. “It has been slow to respond at the federal level. It’s even been slower to get the resources to Americans in crisis, and that is why this entire agency needs to be eliminated as it exists today, and remade into a responsive agency.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/noem-fema-delays

A 72 hour delay in response time and then a call for an elimination of FEMA….was the delay [part of the pl;an to eliminate FEMA or just idiots playing golf and sipping martinis to be bothered with a response?

You tell me?

As suspect as this story is there was even more usual moronic blame being passed around….as usual it will be the Dems fault that this even took place….

Rightwing podcaster and influencer Charlie Kirk has claimed the death toll from the Texas floods “would not have been as high if it wasn’t for” diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Kirk made the comments during his program on Real America’s Voice, saying, “The Democrats are so despicable. The Democrats are not lifting a finger to remember the well over 100 that have died in Texas Hill Country.”

He added that what “you are not being told by the media anywhere, is that the death toll likely would not have been as high if it wasn’t for DEI.”

“This Texas tragedy is just the latest example,” Kirk went on. “It’s not just incompetence. This is DEI working to undermine meritocratic institutions, and more people likely died than otherwise would have because of DEI.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-texas-floods-dei-death-toll-b2785957.html

I am surprised that he did not blame immigrants….but is probably another story…

Oh there is more stupidity.

As Texas recovers from one of its deadliest floods, some Republicans are spreading a conspiracy theory that suggests that weather manipulation is to blame for the deadly flash floods that have killed at least 89 people.

Republicans, including Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have accused the scientific practice of being used to harm and kill, with Greene proposing a bill on Saturday that would make weather modification, also called cloud seeding, a felony.

Greene has previously suggested that weather manipulation has been used to harm Republican-majority areas in the south.

Fellow Republican and Congressional candidate Kandiss Taylor, who is vying for a seat alongside Greene in Georgia, also slammed the practice while directly blaming it for Texas’ incredible deaths and destruction.

“This isn’t just ‘climate change.’ It’s cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation,” she posted on X, without supplying any supporting evidence. “If fake weather causes real tragedy, that’s murder.”

“Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake,” she added in another post.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/weather-manipulation-conspiracy-theory-texas-floods_n_686c0c45e4b0082b3c90c01c

FOOLS!

But not to worry His Majesty plans to tour the damage today….

As President Donald Trump heads to Texas on Friday for a firsthand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding, he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief.

The Trump administration isn’t backing away from its pledges to shutter the Federal Emergency Management Agency and return disaster response to the states. But since the July 4 disaster, which has killed at least 120 people, the president and his top aides have focused on the once-in-a-lifetime nature of what occurred and the human tragedy involved rather than the government-slashing crusade that’s been popular with Trump’s core supporters.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-floods-fema-phase-out-b77d9681d2d39f8c201351b54ecf944f

I am sure there will be another of his insulting speeches to follow….where no one is safe from blame and accusations.

Where will the next disaster hit?

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DEI? WTF?

We all have heard about the air tragedy in DC….two planes collided and fell into the Potomac and everyone has died. As usual the world is looking for reasons and answers…..and the most damn absurd reason has come from Trump and his idiot minions and supporters….

President scapegoats diversity and inclusion initiatives while addressing air traffic disaster that left 67 dead

Donald Trump used the plane crash in Washington DC to attack his political enemies, claiming Democrats were responsible for declining standards in air traffic control and that the disaster “could have been” caused by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Trump turned what might have been a sombre a press conference into a baseless rant against DEI, despite no evidence of a link with the crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport, which involved an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter.

The president was backed by the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who said: “The era of DEI is gone at the defense department and we need the best and brightest.”

Then came the vice-president, JD Vance, who claimed, “we want to hire the best people … actually competent enough to do the job”, and said without offering evidence that hundreds had sued the US government because “they would like to be air traffic controllers, but they were turned away because of the color of their skin”.

Trump claimed that “very powerful tests” for competence in air traffic control were “terminated” by Joe Biden. He also claimed that when he was president between 2017 and 2021 the US “had a much higher standard [in air traffic control] than anybody else”.

Pressed on his citation of DEI as a cause of the crash, Trump said: “It just could have been.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-dc-plane-crash-dei

Dems fault?  This is what morons do when they try to sound intelligent.

DEI?  Seriously?

And this claim will fly around social media and idiots will regurgitate it over and over until it is believe by the mental midgets that support conservs and His Majesty…..

Just when you thought their stupidity was as low as it could go…..BAM!  you have this.

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Is FEMA In Danger?

I live in hurricane alley and after a destructive storm like Katrina FEMA was there to try and help the Coast recover…..granted there is a pile of bureaucracy that one must navigate but nonetheless it was a godsend to our recovery.

The new president has hinted that the department could be on the chopping block.

The president went on his first official trip to California and North Carolina two states that is dealing with disasters like storms and wildfires….

In Asheville, North Carolina, Trump reiterated to reporters his plan to sign an executive order to overhaul—and maybe eliminate—the Federal Emergency Management Agency, reports USA Today. “FEMA has been a very big disappointment,” he said, per the AP. “It’s very bureaucratic. And it’s very slow. Other than that, we’re very happy with them.” Trump said he would prefer that states take care of their own disasters. “Whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA,” he said, per CNN.

“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster … I think we recommend that FEMA go away,” he said during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year.

In case you are not aware of what FEMA actually does…..

According to the agency’s website, it’s mission is “helping people before, during and after disasters.” The agency says it employs more than 20,000 people and has 10 regional offices nationwide, allowing it to “leverage a tremendous capacity to coordinate within the federal government to make sure America is equipped to prepare for and respond to disasters.”

FEMA was officially created in 1979 through an executive order by President Jimmy Carter, and the agency says its history can be traced as far back as 1803. In 2003, FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security.

The agency aims to help people and communities understand and prepare for possible disaster risks, coordinates the federal response to disasters, and supports disaster recovery, according to its website. For more information about what specifically FEMA does and how it operates, you can visit the FEMA website.

Is eliminating FEMA part of the “Make America Great Again”?

If you have never had to deal with the aftermath of a real disaster then you have no damn idea what FEMA does or how it aids people in a crisis.

Like most of Trump’s ideas this is a piss poor one.

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What To Do In The End?

Let’s say society has crumbled around our ears into chaos…..the question has been asked many times….what do we do next?

Should we think about re-population? Should we start trying to re-build our failed society? Should we try to preserve the knowledge of man? Should we consider off-world move?  What should be the survivors main task?

This article is about the later…..

Last week, scientists announced that for the first time on record, Antarctic ice has failed to “substantially recover” over winter, in a “once in 7.5-million-year event.” Climate change is the most likely culprit.

Petra Heil, a sea ice physicist from the Australian Antarctic Division, told the ABC it could tip the world into a new state. “That would be quite concerning to the sustainability of human conditions on Earth, I suspect.”

And in March, a senior United Nations disarmament official told the Security Council the risk of nuclear weapons being used today is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War.

Both warnings speak to concerns about Earth’s security. Will our planet be able to support human life in the future? And if not, will humanity have another chance at survival in space?

Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed the rise of the “billionaut.” The ultra-wealthy are engaged in a private space race costing billions of dollars, while regular citizens often condemn the wasted resources and contribution to global carbon emissions.

Space—described in the Outer Space Treaty as being the “province of all mankind”—risks instead becoming the playground of the elite few, as they try to escape the consequences of environmental destruction.

But if we have to select humans to send into space for a species survival mission, how do we choose who gets to go?

In Montreal last month, the Interstellar Research Group explored the question: how would you select a crew for the first interstellar mission?

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-world-ethical-rebuild-humanity-off-planet.html

The way greed has taken control of the people I would say those that can bribe their way to a better life will leave the rest of us peasants behind to fend for ourselves.

Any thoughts?

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That Hell Bent Meteor

From time to time I try to be an FYI blog…..giving my readers something besides my usual lip about the government or the situations we find ourselves having to deal with…..here we go another attempt on my part….

Almost weekly we read about this asteroid or that that is coming to our little corner of the universe….mostly they fly by without incident even though it was headed directly for us.

Americans are more worried about an asteroid strike than life on Mars….

Polling more than 10,000 respondents, Pew found that a whopping 60 percent of Americans said their top priority for NASA was to “monitor asteroids [and] other objects that could hit the Earth,” with roughly half of those 10,000 adding that “monitor[ing] key parts of the Earth’s climate system” was among their top desired goals for the agency.

Their fears could very well be a reality….

A comet named 12P/Pons-Brooks is speeding toward us as I type…..

An unusual volcanic comet flying toward the sun appears to have “grown horns” after it exploded, causing it to shine like a small star and shower supercold “magma” into space. It is the first time this comet has been seen erupting in almost 70 years. 

The comet, named 12P/Pons-Brooks (12P), is a cryovolcanic — or cold volcano — comet. Like all other comets, the icy object is made up of a solid nucleus, filled with a mix of ice, dust and gas, and is surrounded by a fuzzy cloud of gas called a coma, which leaks out of the comet’s interior. But unlike most other comets, the gas and ice inside 12P’s nucleus build up so much that the celestial object can violently explode, shooting out its frosty guts, known as cryomagma, through large cracks in the nucleus’s shell.

On July 20, multiple astronomers detected a major outburst from the comet, which suddenly became around 100 times brighter than it usually appears, Spaceweather.com reported. This increase in brightness occurred when the comet’s coma suddenly swelled up with gas and ice crystals released from the comet’s interior, allowing it to reflect more sunlight back to Earth. 

https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/city-size-comet-headed-toward-earth-grows-horns-after-massive-volcanic-eruption

Let’s say instead of passing in close proximity it made a turn and hits the earth….how will we cope?

I am glad you asked.

Let’s say for a moment you want to camp alongside the dinosaurs. But not just any dinosaurs. You want to camp alongside the most famous. The most fearsome. So let’s say you spin the dials on a time machine to 66.5 million years ago and you travel back to the late Cretaceous period.

There’s the tyrannosaurus hunting the triceratops. There’s the alamosaurus, one of the largest creatures to ever walk the earth. There’s the tank-like ankylosaurus crushing opponents with its wrecking-ball tail. And just as you settle down on one particular evening, there’s a brand-new star in the northern hemisphere sky.

The star won’t flash, flare up, or blaze across the horizon. It will appear as stationary and as twinkly as all the others. But look again a few hours later and you might think this new star seems a little brighter. Look again the next night and it will be the brightest star in the sky. Then it will outshine the planets. Then the moon. Then the sun. Then it will streak through the atmosphere, strike the earth, and unleash 100 million times more energy than the largest thermonuclear device ever detonated. You’ll want to pack up your tent before then. And maybe move to the other side of the planet.

The day the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into what is now a small town on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula that bears its name is the most consequential moment in the history of life on our planet. In a prehistoric nanosecond, the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began. Not only did the impact exterminate every dinosaur save for a few ground-nesting birds, it killed every land mammal larger than a raccoon. In a flash, Earth began one of the most apocalyptical periods in its history. Could you survive it? Maybe.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-survive-a-killer-asteroid

You might want to read this closely for the possibility is there for an asteroid hitting the earth at any time.

Fore armed is fore warned.

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Who Should Pay?

By now the world knows of the disaster with the sub on it’s way to the Titanic wreck…..but did you know that the 19 year old went along so he could go viral upon his return?

Christine and Alina Dawood, the wife and daughter of Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood, who died on the Titan submersible along with his 19-year-old son, Suleman, weren’t far from their loved ones when they perished last week in the vessel’s “catastrophic implosion.” The grieving mom tells the BBC that she and her daughter boarded the Polar Prince support ship with the two doomed men, and that the family hugged and joked before the Titan made its descent to the bottom of the ocean. “I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time,” she says.

Dawood notes that her son even brought a Rubik’s Cube with him into the submersible, in the hopes of making his way into the Guinness World Records. “He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 meters below [the] sea at the Titanic,'” she recalls him saying, noting that her husband had brought along a camera so he could record the event. Dawood says she’d originally been the one who was supposed to go see the Titanic wreck with her husband, but that trip was nixed because of the pandemic. When it came time to reschedule, she decided to give up her seat to Suleman, “because he really wanted to go.”

All the news about what has happened but there has been few asking the question…..who should pay for this foolhardy endeavor?

When millionaire Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart.

And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who should foot the bill?

In recent days, the massive hunt for a submersible vehicle lost during a north Atlantic descent to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has refocused attention on that conundrum. And with rescuers and the public fixated first on saving and then on mourning those aboard, it has again made for uneasy conversation.

“Five people have just lost their lives and to start talking about insurance, all the rescue efforts and the cost can seem pretty heartless — but the thing is, at the end of the day, there are costs,” said Arun Upneja, dean of Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration and a researcher on tourism.

“There are many people who are going to say, ‘Why should the society spend money on the rescue effort if (these people) are wealthy enough to be able to … engage in these risky activities?’”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/25/submersible-titanic-wealthy-adventurers-rescue-costs-00103555

Personally I think they family/estate should pay for the massive search efforts….the people make the decision to attempt something dangerous then the family should be prepared to foot the rescue/recovery operation.

I have no time for the attitude….do it because it is there.

Let your thoughts be known.

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Titanic Tragedy Update

Looks like it is official….the sub was destroyed and occupants are dead.

Debris has been found near the Titanic that leads officials to believe the sub imploded.

Those hoping for the safe return of the five people lost in a submersible in the North Atlantic rooted for a miracle on Thursday. It did not come. First, the US Coast Guard announced the discovery of a debris field on the ocean floor near the Titanic. Then OceanGate, the operator of the sub, released a statement giving up hope of a rescue for the Titan crew, reports CNN.

  • “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the statement reads, per the Guardian. It hailed the five as “true explorers.”

  • After its initial no-details statement about the debris field, a Coast Guard spokesman said “five different major pieces of debris” that belonged to the submersible were discovered. That includes the nose cone, which was found about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, reports the Washington Post. “The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger at a news conference, per the New York Times. “On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families.”

    He added that a definitive explanation of what happened to the Titan will take time. Thursday morning had marked a critical 96-hour threshold since the vessel disappeared—the point at which breathable air would likely have run out.

I think there is something weird here.

The parts were found about 1600 feet from the bow of the Titanic…..why was it found just hours after the air would have run out.

I mean they were searching around the shipwreck for days and it is ‘discovered’ just hours after the air became toxic (that is if there was any air at all).

Call me suspicious but once the sub was found the story value would go down…..the timing leads me to be suspicious.

All my readers that said it was an implosion from the start of this drama may sleep well tonight for they were right on this issue.

A tragic end to the ‘adventure of a lifetime’.

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Titanic Tragedy Update

The search continues for the tourist sub diving ob the Titanic….as the story unfolds more and more information about this little sub has come out…..

A CBS Sunday Morning segment on OceanGate’s Titanic-touring submersible, originally aired in November, has now gone viral as it highlights the “MacGyvery jerry-rigged-ness” of the vanished vessel. Reporter David Pogue went inside the sub, where OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush—among five people now locked inside the missing capsule—showed him lighting purchased from Camping World and a modified gaming controller used to steer the vessel. “I couldn’t help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised,” Pogue commented. Rush countered that OceanGate worked with Boeing and NASA in creating the capsule itself.

Yet in a clip viewed 21.6 million times on Twitter in two days, Pogue reads from a waiver he was required to sign before going on a test dive, which describes the sub as an “experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death,” per Deadline. In 2018, dozens of industry leaders warned that OceanGate’s decision to forgo an inspection and certification could lead to “catastrophic” problems, the New York Times reports. OceanGate’s director of marine operations at the time claimed the company was “unwilling to pay” for such an assessment. It now charges up to $250,000 per ticket to the Titanic.

Pogue knew the risks. “I stayed up all night the night before my dive,” he tells CBS in a new interview. “I’ve never done anything that could kill me before and I was really, really scared.” He adds Rush assured him the vessel would maintain an oxygen supply and had seven different ways of reaching the surface. “So why haven’t they come to the surface?” Pogue asks. He says Rush told him he would be in real danger if the capsule sprung a leak or got snagged, but that that was very unlikely. However, author and reporter Dr. Michael Guillen recalled thinking he would die when a submersible he used to visit the Titanic in 2000 temporarily got stuck between the wreck’s stern and propellers, per Yahoo.

Would you go on an ‘adventure’ that required such a document be signed?   A “experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death”

There was so much that is being learned I ask why if these tourist were so smart why did they not do a little research….oh that’s right they have subordinates to do that for them….too bad they did not think to ask.

By the time I post this the operation will probably have gone from rescue mission to one of recovery.

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