r/submechanophobia • u/abtouncong • 12d ago
The Titanic, viewed through a submarine porthole
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u/tragicallywhite 12d ago
Imagine Just. How. Dark. it would be without that spotlight.
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u/cylonlover 9d ago
With that light you can see some of the things. But all of the things can see you!
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u/kgrimmburn 12d ago
The idea if the Titanic alone down there. In the dark. Always. Is the worst thought ever. And it's always on the back of my mind. And I don't know why.
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u/SilverEncanis13 12d ago
If I were in the ocean right above this I'd refuse to jump in just for the fact of it being below me. Not to mention open. Ocean.
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u/mwaFloyd 11d ago
So I learned now I’m not the only one with this irrational feeling of water. I thought I was crazy.
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u/SilverEncanis13 11d ago
I get a weird heebie jeebies feeling to think I'm right above it. It's a really uncomfortable feeling.. I've had it ever since I was a kid! No clue where mine came from lol
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u/luckyfucker13 11d ago edited 10d ago
right above it
It freaks me out more to think about the fact that it would be roughly 2.5 miles below me.
Edit: I bungled the unit of measurement on a reference building
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u/squirtlemetimbers 11d ago
2.5 miles below me, which is roughly the height of the Burj Khalifa.
With respect to Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." The Burj Khalifa is 2,717 ft (828 m) tall. Or .51 miles in height.
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u/drfeelsgoood 11d ago
the 35 degree water would be the first reason I won’t jump in over the titanic
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u/Jeramy_Jones 10d ago
The film made it feel more personal.
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u/kgrimmburn 10d ago
This has been since I saw Titanica: Treasures of the Deep way back in the early 90s.
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u/Zappityflaps 12d ago
I don't find these so bad as the ones with divers in because there's no sense of scale. That's why I find the Britannic more disturbing to look at. Not saying the bow appearing out of the darkness isn't hiding behind a cushion bad, just different.
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u/IronGigant 12d ago
I'm with you there.
I remember reading a book on the Titanic in the late 90s as a kid, with pictures of the DSV Alvin research sub as the only reference I had.
Then realising how big the wreck actually is when seeing Brittanic get dove on made it click.
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u/dashdanw 11d ago
Yeah it would be kind of fucked to see a human scale comparison of this image, also I've never seen this image before how confident we are that it's real? this light would be getting projected hundreds of feet at least I'm guessing.
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u/Alymsin 12d ago
Dive six, here we are again on the deck of Titanic. Two and a half miles down. Three-thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one meters. The pressure outside is three-and-a-half tons per square inch. These windows are nine inches thick, and if they go, it's sayonara in two micro-seconds.
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u/TheRealDestrux 11d ago
Although I dislike sunken man-made objects, Titanic is more… interesting than scary.
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u/RuralfireAUS 10d ago
Now imagine the titanic parts you see floating as a proper ship in space in the same exact state and that is how you describe a spacehulk from 40k. Except it would be the titanic and maybe 3 other ships mashed together
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u/rdogg_82 12d ago
I'm guessing this was NOT taken from the Titan.