Hard to give a toss about most of them, they knew what they were getting into and it seems like the entire submersible community tried to warn against it, but such was ignored and disregarded as established interests stifling ‘innovation’.
But I feel really bad for Suleman Dawood. He was just a kid, and was – seemingly wiser than the rest of them – rightly terrified of this aquatic death machine. A lot of people, especially in the media, have tried to make light of their collective, violent end, suggesting it should be some consolation that it would’ve been over before they knew anything was wrong, Except according those most informed on the situation, stubborn owner aside, those onboard seemed to be entirely aware something was wrong. (Why else would they have been trying to surface?) Really sucks that a teennager got roped into this stupidity on account of his Titanic-obsessed dad.
Gallows humour is to be expected with these things, but finding out about Suleman left me utterly depressed. Perhaps it’s wrong to direct my irritation thus, but I felt particularly disgusted at someone who casted things as somehow beautiful for a father and son to die together, as though creating a deep, spiritual bond between them in the afterlife. So much media mindlessly lumping him in with his father’s motivations as though he was a fellow extreme tourism enthusiast, rather than a scared kid simply looking to his father for validation.
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Hard to give a toss about most of them, they knew what they were getting into and it seems like the entire submersible community tried to warn against it, but such was ignored and disregarded as established interests stifling ‘innovation’.
But I feel really bad for Suleman Dawood. He was just a kid, and was – seemingly wiser than the rest of them – rightly terrified of this aquatic death machine. A lot of people, especially in the media, have tried to make light of their collective, violent end, suggesting it should be some consolation that it would’ve been over before they knew anything was wrong, Except according those most informed on the situation, stubborn owner aside, those onboard seemed to be entirely aware something was wrong. (Why else would they have been trying to surface?) Really sucks that a teennager got roped into this stupidity on account of his Titanic-obsessed dad.
Gallows humour is to be expected with these things, but finding out about Suleman left me utterly depressed. Perhaps it’s wrong to direct my irritation thus, but I felt particularly disgusted at someone who casted things as somehow beautiful for a father and son to die together, as though creating a deep, spiritual bond between them in the afterlife. So much media mindlessly lumping him in with his father’s motivations as though he was a fellow extreme tourism enthusiast, rather than a scared kid simply looking to his father for validation.