#maritime disaster

[prideprejudce]

people saying that users aren’t being compassionate enough towards the billionaires stuck in the death coffin at the bottom of the ocean and calling us “ghouls” for bringing up the absolute absurdity of the entire situation and it’s like……of course no one ever deserves to die by suffocation or freezing to death and it’s a hope that by some miracle that these people are found and somehow saved. however people are aloud to point out the irony of how our current wealth gap is so high that there are people who are able to spend 250k, an amount that most people don’t see in their entire lives, like it’s a movie ticket. except instead of seeing a movie they are entering a death chamber to the bottom of the ocean so they can gawk at the mass grave of over a thousand people

“the CEO of the company tricked them and he’s the real capitalist villain while the other passengers are blameless” I agree that the CEO (who is also stuck in the submarine with them) is as grimy as they come and cut corners in order to make as much money as possible. that’s a given. but as we are seeing now, most people who have never even stepped foot in the ocean their entire lives could see that this was a disaster waiting to happen. you don’t have to be a maritime expert to see that. the submersible has no emergency beacon, is controlled by an off brand game controller, made from parts from a camp store, navigated by texts from above, is bolted in from the outside, and has a contract that passengers sign that mentions “death” three times on the front page. most people couldn’t be paid to step foot in it - and these people paid 250k to go to the bottom of the ocean in it

once again, no one is relishing at people dying stuck in an essentially gutted out minivan at the bottom of the ocean. especially when one passenger is 19 and the other is a legitimate titanic researcher. but people are allowed to be mad that thousands upon thousands of dollars of taxpayer money and resources are being used to try and literally pluck these people out of the ocean and save them from a grave that they literally helped dig themselves into without a care in the world. they are the 1% who can put themselves in peril as much as they please and spend money and waste resources like it’s water but will always expect to be saved from the brink of death by us regular folk so they can call themselves an “adventurer” at their next luncheon

#oceangate #titanic #the titanic #the titan #titan submarine #titan submersible #stockton rush #maritime disaster #this has been sitting on my mind for a while #bc people are wagging their fingers at users calling out the obvious lunacy of this entire scenario and calling them Ghouls #like if ur okay with people being able to spend 250k to bury themselves at sea while others fight homelessness that’s on you

[scotianostra]

January 31st 1953 saw the early roll-on/roll-off ferry, MV Princess Victoria, sink in a storm while en route from Stranraer to Larne with the loss of 130 lives.

Another tragedy at sea that is seldom mentioned or remembered. She set sail from Scotland on 31st January 1953 in the midst of a violent storm. A short time later she started to take on water from the car deck stern doors causing her to list before she capsized.

The Princess Victoria was built in Dumbarton in 1947 and was operated as a passenger car ferry between Stranraer and the Northern Irish port of Larne.

A full blown gale was in progress when the Princess Victoria left her home port of Stranraer on the Scottish west coast on 31st January 1953. A short way into the voyage the stern doors on the car deck were breached by high seas, and despite attempts to secure the doors the seawater continued to penetrate them pouring into the car deck.

She listed badly and capsized, sinking with the loss of 130 lives.

#scotland #scottish #history #tragedy #maritime disaster #loss of lives

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"FIRST PICTURE OF THE BAND OF SS. TITANIC," Toronto Star. May 1, 1912. Page 1. ---- NEARER MY GOD, TO THEE. ---- In the recent tragedy of the Atlantic, these men showed wonderful courage. By continuous playing they prevented panic, which undoubtedly saved many lives, and gave consolation in the black hours of night as the ship sank with her 1,635 souls into the depths. Their last minutes as they stood knee-deep in water playing "Nearer My God to Thee" form one of the most glorious chapters in the world's story of self-sacrifice and heroism.

#rms titanic #titanic #titanic disaster #sinking of the titanic #ship's band #maritime disaster #shipwreck #ocean liner #trans-atlantic crossings #nearer my god to thee

[vox-anglosphere]

105 years ago today, most of Halifax was flattened when two ships collided in the foggy harbour. The massive explosion left 1900 dead, 9000 injured and 12,000 homes destroyed. The city of Boston was the first to send help.

#Halifax explosion #WWI #Nova Scotia #6 December 1917 #munitions ship #maritime disaster #history #On this day

[weirdwisconsin]

On this day in 1975, the 729-foot Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald was swallowed by the churning waves of Lake Superior, taking all 29 members of the crew to the cold, dark bottom with her. Sightings of the spectral Fitz began soon after.

#wisconsin #weird wisconsin #haunted #paranormal #ghost ship #ship wreck #lake superior #travel #explore #maritime disaster #travel wisconsin #discover wisconsin #haunted places #history #wisconsin history

[historyhailey]

#duluth #Duluth mn #Minnesota history #duluth history #weird newspapers #weird history #historic newspapers #shipwreck #empress of Ireland #maritime disaster

[versey21]

15th April

Ode on the Loss of the Titanic by Geoffrey Hill

On this day in 1912, RMS Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. The sinking’s death toll was catastrophic: over 1500 people died of drowning or exposure, nearly three quarters of the passengers and crew.

Untergang der Titanic by Willy Slower (1912). Source: Wikipedia

Ode on the Loss of the Titanic

Thriving against facades the ignorant sea

Souses our public baths, statues, waste ground:

Archaic earth-shaker, fresh enemy

(‘The tables of exchange being overturned’);

Drowns Babel in upheaval and display;

Unswerving, as were the admired multitudes

Silenced from time to time under its sway.

By all means let us appease the terse gods.

The Titanic disaster caught the public imagination because the sinking appeared to be the Ancient Greek god Hubris at work, bringing down an “unsinkable” ship and many of the rich and famous of the day, together with hundreds of unnamed third class passengers seeking a new life in America. Taylor��s poem invokes both the god of the sea, Poseidon, and the god of the Hebrews in his tale of divine anger at man’s presumption.

#poetry #geoffrey hill #titanic #maritime disaster #hubris

[thatrandomblogsays]

My sister and I are well adjusted adults

#titanic #i really like boats #history meme #rms titanic #titanic 1912 #maritime #maritime disaster #mine

[johndoe-lesbo]

Just watched this and I am absolutely sick. Boats are the devil’s creation.

#boats are my numero uno enemy #I love them and hate them #I’m absolutely horrified #ss arctic #maritime disaster #YouTube #pic #me post #🖤🖤🖤

[ukdamo]

The Titanic

Gillian Clarke

Under the ocean where water falls over the decks and tilted walls where the sea come knocking at the great ship's door, the band still plays to the drum of the waves, to the drum of the waves.

Down in the indigo depths of the sea the white shark waltzes gracefully down the water stairways, across the ballroom floor where the cold shoals flow and ghost dancers go, ghost dancers go.

Their dresses are frayed, their shoes are lost. their jewels and beads and bones are tossed into the sand, all turned to stone, as they sing in the sea eternally, eternally.

Currents comb their long loose hair, dancers sway forever where the bright fish nibble their glittering bones, till they fall asleep in the shivering deep, in the shivering deep.

#titanic #poem #gillian clarke #sinking #deaths #drowned #maritime disaster #icon #signifier

[humanfist]

#never forget #the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald #maritime disaster

[prideprejudce]

The Ocean is terrifying!

Here are some book recommendations to prove it!

#book recommendations #book rec list #booklr #oceangate #the titanic #titanic #maritime disaster #book recs 2023 #now that I have all of your undivided attention - read these! #they are a mix of fiction/historical nonfiction #but all still terrifying!

[scotianostra]

April 28th 1919 saw two crew members lose their lives from Fraserburgh lifeboat, Lady Rothes.

The Fraserburgh lifeboat crew of 13 had launched their motor lifeboat Lady Rothes, following a call for help from the Admiralty drifter Eminent. In a gale, the ship’s engine had broken down. They signalled for help at 9am, drifting towards shore at the south end of Fraserburgh Bay.

Someone had called out “It’s nae a day for oilskins today, lads!” – the inference being that if the boat capsized the oilskins would drag the wearer under if they capsized.’ Coxswain Andrew Noble and Acting Second Coxswain Andrew Farquhar were the only ones who chose to wear oilskins.

All the lifeboat crew put on their lifejackets and launched.

The crew had a lot of faith in the lifeboat. It was self-righting and had proven its mettle in previous rescues. The volunteers were ready to take to the oars if the engines couldn’t power through the heavy swell. Before the lifeboat reached the Eminent, disaster struck.

The lifeboat took one lump of water on the port bow , it knocked her onto her beam end and the second wave caused her to capsize. Three of the crew members managed to cling onto the lifeboat, but ten were thrown overboard.

The Lifeboat magazine of that The 42ft-long Lady Rothes was just overcome by the swell, the sheer weight of the water and the size of the waves.’ era described it as a ‘DEPLORABLE accident’. Nobody was at fault.

The lifeboat righted herself immediately. Four of the crew managed to clamber back onboard, out of the icy water. Two of the others clung onto the lifelines on the hull of the lifeboat.

That left four of the lifeboat crew strewn across the water. The lifeboat and the men were swept helplessly towards the beach.

The desperate crowd on the shore pulled the men clear of the surf. Andrew Noble and Andrew Farquhar were alive when they were cast up on the beach, but despite medical attention, they died almost immediately.

Many people are shocked to learn that the men died after being pulled out alive. You can only surmise that it was due to exposure, exhaustion, cold water shock, inhalation of water or secondary drowning. We’ll never know whether their oilskins made a difference in the water.

The rest of the crew survived.

Meanwhile, the Eminent and crew were still in distress. Eminent ran aground. Those ashore managed to attach a line to the boat and all nine of the Eminent’s crew were saved.

Reports are sketchy about how it happened as the newspapers focused on the lifeboat tragedy. It might have been the local lifesaving brigade. There was also one report of heroism by a man called Stocks, a boxing champion, who jumped into the raging sea with a line and swam to the Eminent.

Both Andrew Noble and Andrew Farquhar left widows and children, who the RNLI was able to help them financially.

It was a huge loss for the station and community. Andrew Noble was an RNLI medal-winning coxswain who had served since 1887. Andrew Farquhar volunteered on the crew and worked as a pilot at Fraserburgh Harbour.

The lifeboat had been at Fraserburgh since 1915. It was named after the Countess of Rothes who survived the Titanic disaster, and funded by her father.

The lifeboat had minimal damage from the disaster and was back on service in a matter of weeks. It’s an indication of the faith that the crew had in their lifeboat, that the same volunteers came forward.

The Fraserburgh crew continued to save lives on the Lady Rothes until she was retired from service in 1937.

Pics are of the lifeboat and Andrew Noble (left) and Andrew Farquhar (right)

#scotland #scottish #history #Aberdeenshire #maritime disaster #lifeboat

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“38 Rescued by Canadian Navy,” North Bay Nugget. March 24, 1942. Page 1. ---- Battered by mounting seas, the grounded after section of an Allied merchant freighter lies grounded on the reefs off Sable Island, near Canada's coast. In a daring exploit of seamanship, and at the cost of one Navy man’s life, 38 seamen were rescued from the wreck. Before these photographs were taken by a patrol plane of the RCAF, the forward part of the ship had broken away carrying 10 men to their death in the icy waters. The upper photo was taken before the rescue. Below the abandoned ship is shown barely visible above the surging waters.

#sable island #seamen #merchant freight #maritime rescue #maritime disaster #maritime accident #atlantic ocean #reef #canada during world war 2 #battle of the atlantic

[thatpunnyperson]

According to NBC here in the US, the missing titanic sub has been found. As debris. Off the bow of the Titanic wreckage.

And it looks like the sub suffered what we all suspected, and what was undoubtedly the more merciful of the two options: a catastrophic implosion from the pressure.

Also, more info has come to light about the fishing trawler with the hundreds of migrants that sank cataclysmically off the coast of Greece, indicating that the greek coast guard knew about the vessel AND how much trouble the vessel was in, and were towing it at a speed that made it capsize, at which point they unhooked the tow line and watched the trawler sink without helping the passengers to safety. Despite a bunch of other ships trying to help as well throughout the whole ordeal.

So a lot of people are dead, all because of regulations (and the lack thereof) regarding sea-faring vessels and rescue protocols. People shouldnt be allowed to make a business charging a ton of money for a ride on an uncertified, unsafe, un-seaworthy ship going deep into the ocean with no distress beacon or tether to the mothership. People also shouldnt be allowed to enact laws that criminalize the ferrying of refugees, which then force the refugees to hitch rides on fishing trawlers, and which also prevent people from helping those fishing trawlers full of refugees due to fear of legal consequences.

Hopefully BOTH of these events spark changes on an international scale in terms of what is legally allowed to be sailed, who is legally allowed to be the passengers, and what the rescue protocols are in the event of disaster for any seafaring vessel, illegal or not. It shouldnt be just the global 1% who get 24/7 search parties and remote-operated submersibles helping rescue them.

#the question of 'what do we owe to each other' can be answered simply with 'the dignity of retrieving our remains when we die' #another answer is 'the dignity of thinking about each other fellow humans with similar motivations and feelings' #also 'stopping someones potentially self-destructive behaviors just because theyre rich and want to feel special' #also i feel like humans have been sailing the seas long enough that it should be guaranteed that people will survive sea voyages #im very mad about specifically mediterranean maritime disasters because we have ancient writing saying they made it safe #sailing from Egypt to Greece was so old hat and safe that people legit took the ancient equivalent of cruises back and forth #cleopatra habitually sailed from alexandria to rome with a ton of ships and was fine #Nero tried to have his mother drowned at sea by orchestrating a dramatic shipwreck while she was our sailing AND SHE SURVIVED #and then swam to shore got back to rome and whooped his ass #fuckin pliny the elder tried to evacuate people from pompeii and the surrounding coast villages when vesuvius erupted #and he actually WAS able to rescue people #but he himself had an asthma attack from the fumes which led to a heart attack and he died on the beach #there is legit no excuse for that trawler of migrant refugees to have wrecked #negligence all around #anyway #oceangate

[qupritsuvwix]

#nurdles #sri lanka #maritime disaster