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OceanGate Does Not Have One Leg Up Underwater · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett on this edition of the Alex Garrett Podcast Network,
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  the one Leg Up feature. Thanks to Arthur Idalla and the A VK.
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  Law Company and Rapid Pulse for making us feel so welcome last night at
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  the Iridium. I just want to get that out there. It was great
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  talk with padre Lu a little bit as well. Gabby had a great time.
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  Gabby actually met the mayor, Mayor Bill de Blasio, former mayor of
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  New York, so that was kind of fun. Nice guy, nice guy
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  for sure. But I have a few things I have to get off my
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  chest. Firstly, is this situation with ocean Gate. Off the top here,
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  let me just say, I don't believe ocean Gate. I don't believe
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  the people buying into ocean Gate are at fault. I think it's ocean Gate
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  that is really the problem here because what they've done as they've capitalized on a
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  cap size for quite a few years now, one hundred eleven years ago,
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  of course, the Titanic cap size in that same part of the Atlantic Ocean.
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  And my thought today on the Alex Scarett Podcast Network, as we mourn
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  five humans, I don't like the idea that they're being labeled these arrogant billionaires
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  and these on the other their people. They're human beings. There's a nineteen
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  year old that died as well. I don't like the fact that they're being
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  laughed at for dying and spending their money. I think it's ocean Gate that
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  should get all of the blame here, because they're the ones that are snookering
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  people into making this seemed like a safe expedition down into the Titanic remains,
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  and maybe that is sacred ground. Maybe we shouldn't be exploring those remains anymore.
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  Thank God they didn't build over the Twin Towers spaces and they built just
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  next to it. Thank God they didn't rebuild over that horrible site. And
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  I think the same principle applies. I don't think anybody or anything should be
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  disturbing the Titanic. I guess Jim Cameron had to do that to make the
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  movie twenty five years ago. But this hit home because many many years ago,
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  I got to know the man who found the Titanic. Hit it all
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  right, Alex are you there? How are you? Doctor Ballard? Yep?
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  That is two thousand and six, me talking with doctor Bob Ballard at
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  the Immersions Presents conference, which was sort of a spinoff, if you all
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  are, an addition to my work on the Jason project many many years ago.
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  And so this hit home because I wondered, I wonder what doctor Ballard
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  would say, And sure enough, he and James Cameron actually joined Stephen Good
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  Morning American, Good Morning America Today and talked about this issue. As I
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  que it up here. Bob knew Ocean Gates founders, doctor and Rush quite
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  well. Tell us about him. Well, I met him quite honestly,
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  threw his father over twenty years ago, and I remember when he came up
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  to me. He was fascinated with the Titanic and had the dream. His
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  dream was to go down and explore the Titanic, but unfortunately that dream turned
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  into a nightmare. That's George Stephan was bobbing hot Stephen, George Stphanopolis.
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  But yes, the man behind the finding of the remains of the Titanic on
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  Good Morning America Today with James Cameron and James You were longtime friends with Paul
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  Henry Nagioli, who was a deep sea explorer titank expert. Yeah, we
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  called him pH Or in French Payosh, and he was one of the people
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  that I looked up to when I first started in the sort of deep submergence
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  world. He had been out to Titanic before me, and then we had
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  a kind of friendly competition over the years. He'd go out one year,
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  I'd go out the next year, and we explored the reck site. He
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  was more focused on the debris field where they were recovering all kinds of artifacts
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  which were in museums all around the world, and I was more focused on
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  the actual physical part of the wreck and the interior exploration of it. But
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  we made about the same number of dives down to the reck site. So
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  I know him very well. And it's just this horrible, horrible tragedy that's
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  taken place here. It sure has. Let's talk a little bit more about
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  it, Bob. You said, once you've heard about the vessel's disappearance,
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  you knew this was the outcome. Yes, Yes, we are very familiar
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  with exploring recks like this. I explored the Scorpion just two to the east
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  of the Titanic, did a similar forensic analysis, and we detected its implosion
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  with our underwater listening system, and that's what the Navy told the Coastguard the
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  moment had happened. They picked up the implosion, passed it on to the
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  coastguards. So we immediately knew that where to go and where to look.
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  But it just took time to get the ROVs down there, and they finally
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  got there yesterday. What do you think went wrong? Well, that's the
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  big debate, and there will be now a very systematic survey. Like I
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  said, I've done this before on the loss of the Thresher and the Scorpion.
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  It's scattered all over the place. So the ROVs are going to do
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  a very very precise, systematic mapping that will collect the pography at high definition
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  inventory and they'll also be recovering the objects. So this investigation will go on
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  for quite some time. Obviously Jim can talk about well they went on for
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  seven minutes, but quite some time that in a little of themselves. Lets
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  me ask this question, how many vessels have been lost down there to begin
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  with? And maybe if we know that that part of the Atlantic Ocean is
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  taking vessels, and even if it's not every year, but there's a chance
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  maybe just maybe ocean Gate if they want to keep doing this after this disaster
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  needs to perfect it a little more. Maybe they do have to perfect it
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  against this ocean that has clearly taken now what four different vessels, the Titanic,
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  what doctor Baller is mentioning, and the titan Sub. It's tragic and
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  ironic, and I get people want to take a chance, and I'm not
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  blaming them. I will not put this on the people that paid two hundred
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  and fifty thousand dollars. You know why, because they have that money they
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  could spend on how they want. It's up to ocean Gate to make sure
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  they're damned safe down and then the wreckage and then coming back up. It's
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  their responsibility and no one else's. It's it's not the responsibility of the billionaire
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  to figure it out. It's the responsibility of the CEO of the crew.
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  I wouldn't even say the crew. I would say the management of ocean Gate
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  beyond the crew, because you know, I just think once you're down there,
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  even the crew is at peril, right, that's gonna happen, And
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  just stunning four vessels in that part of the Atlantic Ocean by Saint John's Canada.
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  You think that ocean's angry. I think that ocean's angry. I really,
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  I really do. I think that ocean is pretty damn angry to be
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  honest with you. One hundred eleven years later, all right, this weekend
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  we're gonna have Richard V. Battle back to talk about his book The Americans
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  and the Americans. And then one last thought, I really want to know,
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  uh, if you'd like to partner with this podcast. It's getting a
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  bit tiring to do this and I love doing it, but I want to
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  know if anyone wants to partner with us in the one leg up adventure and
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  will Yeah, Alex and Alex g NYC dot com. Alex and alexg
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  NYC dot com would love to work with you out there and uh and build
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  a partnership to get this this podcast up and running now only as a podcast,
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  but maybe it's a radio show. Let's talk about it on the Alex
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  Garrett Podcast Network.