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I don't think Dawood and his son considered themselves "researchers" on this journey but...
Bill Diamond is the CEO of SETI Institute in Mountain View, a nonprofit dedicated to the "search and understanding of life beyond Earth," according to its website
Diamond says Shahzada Dawood, one of the missing passengers, is a shareholder with the organization and learning of the submersible's disappearance was devastating news to his team.
"I mean, it's kind of ironic in a way that the search is very much like a SETI endeavor in SETI. We're looking for phenomena that nature doesn't produce. And that's the same thing that they're doing here," he said. "They're looking for, you know, sonar blips, or audio noises and signals or other signs of technology that would indicate 'this is not nature here.'"
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I sure would like to see whether those facts are in the waiver. "You are going on an entirely untested and unregulated vessel."
"You will be bolted into a tube with no means of escape and no built-in emergency beacon or back-up power supply."
I'd also like to know if anyone explained depth and water pressure (they should have been required to watch videos about it and then sign off on the fact that rescue would be impossible if anything went wrong).
I totally agree with you - although, if the people had seriously been educated and warned about risks (as opposed to being made to pretend to be "researchers"), I'd have different feelings right now.
I do think there would have been some people who still paid passage to get on this thing, though.
When a concession takes money from people, regardless of waivers signed, they are still responsible for the reasonable operation of the concession.
IMO. This was not a research dive.
I don't think Dawood and his son considered themselves "researchers" on this journey but...
Bill Diamond is the CEO of SETI Institute in Mountain View, a nonprofit dedicated to the "search and understanding of life beyond Earth," according to its website
Diamond says Shahzada Dawood, one of the missing passengers, is a shareholder with the organization and learning of the submersible's disappearance was devastating news to his team.
"I mean, it's kind of ironic in a way that the search is very much like a SETI endeavor in SETI. We're looking for phenomena that nature doesn't produce. And that's the same thing that they're doing here," he said. "They're looking for, you know, sonar blips, or audio noises and signals or other signs of technology that would indicate 'this is not nature here.'"
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Missing Titanic submersible: Passenger presumed dead on sub has ties to Bay Area
Shahzada Dawood, one of the missing passengers, is a shareholder of SETI Institute in Mountain View. The CEO of the nonprofit says his team was devastated to hear the news.