To the Depths

 There was a lot going on last week and I would be remiss if I didn't comment on the big story last week, the tale of the submersible Titan that took 5 people down into the icy depths of the northern Atlantic Ocean to see the wreckage of the Titanic.

 And didn't come back.  

The Titan wasn't the only thing heading for the depths. 

There was humor at the expense of the 5 lives at risk inside the Titan.  Look, I get that there's not a lot of love lost for billionaires doing frivolous things with their obscene amounts of wealth. But these were human lives regardless of the size of their bank accounts. 

At least one of them was the 19 year old son of one of the billionaires who according to the young man's aunt didn't really want to go. Hatred of billionaires aside, did that 19 year old deserve to die?   

The only humor I will indulge in is this: in the match up of Atlantic Ocean Vs. the Hubris of Man, the score is now 2 - 0 in favor of the sea. 

NewsNation reached for the depths of impropriety with it's countdown clock for the Titan's depleting oxygen supply.  Morbid much?  

The news came down on Thursday that the crew of the Titan was dead but not from the slow asphyxiation of dwindling air. It appears that within hours of the start of the Titan's dive, the submersible imploded due to pressure failure, the sheer weight of the ocean collapsing the sub like the proverbial tin can and killing all aboard immediately.  

Which leads us to the depths some Republicans tried to spin this is into a right wing conspiracy to protect Hunter Biden.

I am not kidding. 

So here's the deal. It seems the US Navy has super secret sonic equipment that detected the sound of an implosion from the general vicinity of the Titan's dive.  There was a very real expectation as early as Sunday that the Titan was destroyed and all hands were lost. But the Coast Guard elected to not release that information pending confirmation which it found on Thursday when the Titan's debris field.  

Meanwhile, there's some shit going down with Hunter Biden last week. (I will cover that in a forthcoming post.) 

So Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn (who was crazy long before Donald Trump entered the picture) wondered that it seemed to be a coincidence that the news about the fate of the Titan crew was held back until it could distract from news about Hunter Biden. 

Really. She went there. 

And Republicans found more depths to descend to. 

The Titan was destroyed because Ocean Gate was "woke". 

The CEO of Ocean Gate who built the Titan was once quoted as saying he didn't want just hire 50 year old white guys which Republicans took as prioritizing diversity over experience. 

Since a lot of concerns have been expressed by experts that Ocean Gate built the Titan on the cheap, I'm guessing the CEO's comment about not wanting to just hire 50 year old white guys was less a pledge to diversity and more of a cost cutting business guy looking to not actually want to pay what experienced 50 year old guys would cost.  

As the Titan and it's doomed occupants plunged to the depths of what would become a watery grave, was it necessary for others to plunge to their own depths of morbid humor and depraved quests for ratings and scoring partisan points?