I first read about the missing Titan submersible a few hours after it was publicly reported missing, and I’ve been hanging on every update ever since.
That’s not to say I ever thought there might be a happy ending to the whole saga. This is perhaps a confronting thing to say, but in that vessel, at that depth, at that location, an instantaneous catastrophic implosion was a preferable alternative to one in which the occupants suffered over days or were conscious of what was happening.
I just think –more than any other news story in recent memory– the whole thing says so much to us about human nature.
