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Waffle 🧇

@wafflecut.bsky.social

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
10
BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
13
A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
15
was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
16
program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
17|
Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
20
submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM

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Ste Gordon

@sgordonthe87.bsky.social

July 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

January 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

listen guys stop virtue signalling, eurovision is for everyone

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Presenter saying “Eurovision is for everyone. Black, white, rich, poor

Panel 2: Weird little guy leans into panel and says “A-And people who blow up children?”

Panel 3: presenter chuckles softly

Panel 4: presenter smiles, hugs little guy and says “Yes, AND people who blow up children”

May 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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Jesse Hawken

@jessehawken.bsky.social

Hey I called it

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Jan 1

Elon: “Heil Hitler”
the press: “hmmm I wonder what he means by this”

January 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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Chaz Hutton

@chazhutton.com

A little comic about desire paths.

Ok so…
There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…

January 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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Richard Blandford

@rblandford.bsky.social

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why, Santa Claus despises weakness

December 8, 2023 at 8:24 AM

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the hype

@thehyyyype.bsky.social

a movie called nosferatatouille, where a bat sits on draculas head and turns him into a world-renowned pastry chef

December 9, 2024 at 6:33 PM

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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io

@brainmage.bsky.social

[Lin Manuel Miranda voice]

Lemme ask you a question

How do you explain the brain of a man who can deny a claim for a plan, cause such pain just to slam mad cash in the bank?

How do you suppose the thinking goes when finance bros choose depose, causing misery while busily gettin rich from you & me

December 9, 2024 at 1:04 PM