Billionaire Says He Backed Out of Doomed Titanic Sub Trip

Las Vegas billionaire Jay Bloom and his son Sean had planned to go on the doomed Titanic voyage, but pulled out. A friend of Bloom's son researched what could go wrong and it scared Sean. Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush texted the nervous passengers, “It's way safer than flying in a helicopter or even scuba diving." Desperate to fill empty seats, Rush offered Bloom and his son a $200,000 discount.

[barbaram]

The son who didn’t go because his friend warned him, keep that friend for life ❤

[Colibrilibra]

Credits for the son's friend who spent his own time and researched about safety and expressed his conserns! Not Dad, not Mom, a friend!!!
May all of us have such friends!

[fairwarning]

Imagine paying 250K to ride a sub assuming the price represents the “advanced” technology being used only to be told once you got on “whoopsie! The engine is on backwards!” This whole operation was just one red flag after another. How anyone trusted to get on and go down 13, 000 ft in this deathtrap is beyond me.

[TTeeization]

The difference between a man who listened to his son’s feelings and one who didn’t. My god! My heart goes out to the other son 💔.

[vmsonred]

The friend of the son that researched saved both of their lives

[nomad_]

As a father, I would never put my child’s life at risk. It is my sole duty to have fully researched every single thing about that submarine before my son and I ever set foot in it. It is a tragedy that exposes how greed blinds people.

[SimoneTaylor-nhpp]

Please notice. The son did research and told his dad his concerns. The dad listened and didn't go even after the discount.

[lonebluewolfpublishing]

"My son's friend researched what could go wrong and put a little scare in him." That's a good friend!!!

[margotk]

This is a good lesson to listen to your gut and say no sometimes. Don’t worry about being “cowardly”, actually it’s your internal safety mechanism working. If the 19 year old has stick to his true feeling on boarding the submersible he would still be alive. RIP to all the victims in this tragedy.

[PreppyPrincess]

A “good man with a good heart “ takes a person’s concerns and fears into consideration.

[Maxdouble]

Rest in peace to all on board. The kid’s gut told him not to go but he just wanted to make his father happy. That’s extremely sad! 💔

[j.m.]

I feel so bad for the son who was terrified to go and was pressured into it. :( All of the other men were there for thrill seeking and wanted to go. He didn't.

[BOJACKHRSEMAN]

Ladies and gentleman, here we have a man who actually has common sense. Good for him.

[ShadowLinkxMaster]

A Father’s Day gift to me is soup… homemade. Or at a nice restaurant. Going out on an unsafe submersible where you’re required to sign a 7 page waiver and the possibility of dying is brought several times; absolutely not.

That father and son duo who pulled out last minute must now be reevaluating every moment of their lives. That was the biggest bullet they ever dodged.

[skelemama]

“The bodies were disintegrated.”
That sent a shiver down my spine. I can’t imagine going out like that extremely quickly when you’re that deep in the ocean. Increased water pressure ain’t nothing to joke around about, man.

[lucifersmyth]

Being in a submarine is extremely stressful. My uncle was in the military, he hated being deep in water. He spent some time in a military submarine for a few months deep below water and it stressed him out so much. Before he went underneath, he had no single gray hair and when he finally emerged after spending months down below, he came up with 90% of all his hair had become gray and white and it stayed like that the rest of his life

[JohnPeacekeeper]

"As a father's day gift" that's just... really sad.

[searchanddiscover]

Good on this father for listening to his son. I just wished the other father had listened to his son. So scary what the ocean depths can do to a body. other than for science and research there is absolutely no reason for regular civilians to go down there.

[airadaimagery]

No way on earth was that sub ever safer than scuba diving. How dare he even make such an absurd claim.

[seldom]

The way how Stockton Rush speak on those text messages is already a HUGE RED FLAG. I wouldn't entrust my life on a guy that speaks like that.