Should a sunken Titan put an end to mankind’s curiosity for the deep sea?

Should a sunken Titan put an end to mankind’s curiosity for the deep sea?

Photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic; image credit: OceanGate Expeditions via AP.

Synopsis

It was 1912 when the Titanic sank. But we didn’t stop surfing the seas, did we? Columbia and Challenger space shuttles were a disaster but US astronaut Frank Rubio will be back only after over a year in space. In Billy Joel’s words, we didn’t start the fire. Careful, we must be, but should we stop?

Zero would be nice! -Lt General Leslie Groves to Robert Oppenheimer (on the probability of atmospheric ignition, an event of calamitous proportions] Five more in Davy Jones’ Locker. Hamish Harding, Suleman and Shahzada Dawood, Pierre-Henri Nagrolet, and the now disgraced Stockton Rush all perished in the Titan submersible implosion. James Cameron, the man who made the movie Titanic, and Menaka Guruswamy, senior Supreme Court of India lawyer,

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