Something else wealthy people and explorers have in common is very high risk tolerance. They’re not concerned by taking risks and chances, which is often why they’re ultimately successful (but saying always). Meanwhile a lot of us pay head to risk taking by factoring in what could happen in the worst case scenario. Whether that’s practical or smart or it’s what limits our chances of success is entirely another debate.
The explorers may end in the situation when their survival will depend solely on themselves. So they must have lots of useful skills besides being "the visionaries". How to make a shelter from primitive materials, for example. Same holds true for the people who started business from a scratch in someone's garage and ended up billionaires. So I assume they all are smart in a well-rounded way. And hence putting too much trust in themselves is part of their nature.
Even the leaders who don't have good dexterity or orientation but survive are peculiar. I once knew a person who was a klutz, so to say, but nonetheless, he managed to survive a week in the taiga. That he got lost is unsurprising, but he learned a lot by quietly watching the behavior of animals, such as bears. (What berries they ate, what they drank.)
Later, he became a good leader who also learned a lot from successful humans.
(The most interesting thing is to read about Ford's beginnings.)
This is a fascinating question: salvage of Titanic artifacts is so controversial. I did wonder why PH was making this trip, because in 2020 Nargeolet planned a mission to recover Titanic's Marconi telegraph machine. The US government tried to stop that expedition but in May 2020 a judge agreed that because the telegraph is historically important and could soon disappear due to decay, the expedition could proceed.
At that point NOAA made a legal challenge, saying it represents the public's interest. Essentially, NOAA wants to control all dives to the Titanic. I think this case is still tied up in appeals? If anyone knows, it would be interesting to learn the status.
Meanwhile, the Marconi wireless radio onboard --and all the information it contains--is in danger of being lost forever.
We know that many companies have been pillaging sunken ships.
The Malaysian coast guard initially detained the vessel — a large bulk carrier ship — for illegally anchoring in Malaysian territory in the South China Sea.
nypost.com
This is by far not the only case. However, who do the ships and the artifacts found on them belong to?
Here is the controversy regarding Titanic.
One of the world’s most famous ocean liners has faced years of claims and counter-claims to the wreckage and its contents
inews.co.uk
All of this being said, don't the living relatives of the victims have the right of inheritance? Let us say, a ring has been recovered that belonged to a passenger and there are photos confirming the ownership. Who is the rightful heir: the company that made many dives to recover the artifacts, or the living heirs of the person it once belonged to?
