{"id":55288,"date":"2023-06-24T00:14:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55288"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T00:14:58","slug":"titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55288","title":{"rendered":"Submersible? Umm … no!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OK, I will have to stipulate that I don’t believe I ever gave any thought to whether I would ride to the depths of the ocean in a submersible vehicle.<\/p>\n

Then came the tragedy that took the lives of five men this week as they sought to take an up-close look at the wreckage of the RMS Titanic cruise ship that sank in 1912 and is resting 13,000 feet below the ocean’s surface.<\/p>\n

For almost my entire life I have maintained a fairly fearless attitude about what I would do … or wouldn’t do. I am 73 years of age and I am taking a much more cautious outlook on those things I never would do.\u00a0Riding to the floor of the ocean in a submersible is very near the top of the won’t-do list.<\/p>\n

The Titan vehicle reportedly imploded shortly after launching toward the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The men on board died instantly, as the Coast Guard and the Navy have indicated.<\/p>\n

Just because I have become a scaredy-cat who won’t do certain things doesn’t mean I disparage the fearless among us who are willing to take those risks. It’s part of being a human being, many of them have said in the hours since the revelation that the Titan had been destroyed in a “catastrophic implosion.”<\/p>\n

Human beings are wired to explore, to test their limits, to reach perhaps beyond their grasp … or so the thoughts go. I am going to sigh and respond only with this: Not all human beings are hardwired in this manner; I know … because I am one of those who cannot do what those five brave men were able to do.<\/p>\n

My heart breaks for the loved one who are mourning their unbelievable loss.<\/p>\n

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OK, I will have to stipulate that I don’t believe I ever gave any thought to whether I would ride to the depths of the ocean in a submersible vehicle. Then came the tragedy that took the lives of five men this week as they sought to take an up-close look at the wreckage of … Continue reading Submersible? Umm … no!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10129,10215],"class_list":["post-55288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-mourning","tag-titanic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55289,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55288\/revisions\/55289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}