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Originally Posted by Hom3r
12 men have walked on the moon, and about 6 have been to the Mariana Trench which is 7 miles down.
Now astronauts know that they are sitting on a bomb which could go bang on the pad and still are willing to go.
So I would say that the risk of an implostion and depths below the ocean is a similar risk, but they would still do it.
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One difference is the actual risk assessment of the equipment. NASA has the greatest minds and engineers in the world. I think I'd rather risk sitting in a rocket, than a sub that's built with bits and pieces and without any safety certificates also known to be a death trap. They'll always be risks, but it's minimising those risks. In this case, the sub was sub-standard.
I'm not sure I'd agree with calling those that go down as explorers, to me they're just paid up tourists doing something different.