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Basis for a law suit. They delayed sending out an SOS a few hours, of course it often lost comms and they didn't want to cry wolf each time -- nm

Posted by zeitgeist Jun 22 '23, 17:06

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Also, what comms did they have? I've been told that you can't communicate through 3 miles of water... -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 17:14 3
- They were three miles down after 1.75 hours? -- nm - mara Jun 22, 17:49 2
  - pretty close anyway. supposed to take 2 hours to get to depth. -- nm - mafic Jun 22, 17:52
  - it's difficult to get communication past even 100m under water. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:51
I mean, if they were a fine paste within seconds, what harm does a couple hours do? -- nm - Ender Jun 22, 17:13
even if the passengers hadn't waived liability, what does a judgment get you? the Goldman family's had a $33m judgment against OJ for 25 years - hollywood big shot Jun 22, 17:10 6
- Iirc they claimed much of his memorabilia. But yeah he moved to Florida where you can build a 100m house to hide your money -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 22, 17:56
- when I was a mailboy at a lawfirm one of the very expensive partners once told me waivers are meaningless. "sign anything and sue anyway. - mafic Jun 22, 17:54 3
  - this is the same guy who had us spend $2,500 to courier him long phone cable so he could check his email on the beach when he was on vacation. - mafic Jun 22, 18:00 2
    - I'm hoping he was a better lawyer that he was with his money -- nm - JD Jun 22, 18:14 1
      - client's money! he was working on a lawsuit that was expected to take so long they built a special courtroom for it. - mafic Jun 22, 18:25
- also what would an SOS have done? There was no saving them. -- nm - Reagen Jun 22, 17:16

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