2The Titan Submersible

There are a couple things that, when an expert (a real one, not the guys on Twitter) tells you you’re doing wrong, you should probably stop doing. CPR, for example. Or building a deep-sea submarine. So when pretty much everyone in the extremely underwater vehicle business looks at your attempt and says “that’s not how that works,” it would be advisable to make a trip back to the drawing board, instead of the bottom of the ocean.

The founders of OceanGate, a company providing tours of the wreck of the Titanic that proves that maybe, just maybe, any publicity is not good publicity, thumbed their nose at that. When their fucked-up little pillboat successfully made it there and back, they tragically took that as the rule and not the exception. Dipping back into that extremely deep well proved tragic, as we all now know, when the Titan submersible imploded, and when asked for the reason, deep sea experts responded with “Well, I’ve got about five.”

1World War II

Can you believe Germany tried this shit again? Knock it off!