[Coach]

Tragic. would have been a pretty horrible way to go.

I do have sympathy obviously that people died and they have loved ones, but I do equate it with people dying on Everest, or in a Blue Origin rocket, or crossing Antarctica or the Sahara. This is STILL very untested stuff and they knew that going in. But this is why astronauts and deep sea divers train and use proper equipment etc... And they still have accidents. I don't know that anyone is really at fault, outside of maybe the dude that brought his kid (although the kid was an adult - barely). I think that the sharing of experiences via the web has given people the idea that these types of things might be "easier" than they look. It's still the harshest conditions on the planet.

What I AM surprised by is the general lack of human capability to get there. There obviously hasn't been near the investment into undersea vehicle tech as there has been to road and air and space tech. Seems strange actually, given the advancements in those other areas.