Being eco friendly is punk af.

That thing is called the Oceangate Titan and it’s basically an overly expensive coffin. Here’s some details from the company’s own website basically bragging that the vessel was not rated or classified by any kind of safety organization.

They basically outline here that they didn’t go through the classing process because they felt it restricted their “innovation“. Also, if playing My Heart Will Go On as they descended to see the historical inspiration of the film that song is a reference to wasn’t ironic enough. Through my reading on sea vessel safety regulations, I learned that these very regulations were put in place specifically due to the event of the sinking of the Titanic. The regulations I read through are the US Coast Guard’s Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular No. 5-93 which is a fairly old document but after a good bit of digging it’s the most recent set of inspection criteria I can find. It has specific parameters for passenger submersibles like the one you see here. I also looked through the Code of Federal Regulations and the International Convention for Safety of Life At Sea (SOLAS) which is the main regulatory body of International sea vessel safety.

I can only assume these are the inspection criteria that Oceangate found so constricting to their innovation. As someone who’s seen a lot of inspection guidelines I can’t say this seems particularly outrageous. The fact that they brag about not being rated as defined above sets off huge red flags for me.

The big one that first jumped out at me and got me looking into this was the fact that the occupants are literally bolted into this thing from the outside. I’ve worked in Egress systems before so I knew the second I saw that what this one was going to say. Almost anything you might need to escape from will require 2 exits and they’d need to be appropriately marked, visible, and unobstructed.

If you ever look at a building, plane, or a ship, you should be able to identify emergency exits at a glance with no issues. I can only assume the people who designed this particular submarine didn’t want ugly markings and unsightly hatch handles on their sleek and futuristic sub design.

Now I’m not an expert on sea vessels so if there’s anyone reading this who knows more I’d love your input. Here are some things I found which I tried my best to identify in the pictures given of the inside and outside of the submarine. From what I understand they were using text messages to relay their position though that could be a rumor spreading around. Regardless I think if they had any form of beacon or communication method they could use, they would have been found by now. I also can’t find anything that looked like an emergency ballast anywhere on the outside of the vessel.

Out of touch?

木漏れ日の中にいられる傘（Umbrella that can be sunlight through the trees）

Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)

A gorgeous dark grey wild type, the speckling and colors of wild types can vary greatly from animal to animal, enough to warrant a separate post later on. [x]

This melanoid is a velvety black animal with blue-grey undersides, it has none of the iridescence (iridophores) found in most other morphs. [x]

Unfortunately, this unique copper never made it to adulthood. Like all coppers, it lacks black coloration. This variety does come in many shades, and I find this one’s light yellow base with golden flecks particularly stunning, along with the fact that it is also possibly piebald. The light and translucent skin around it’s limbs and neck probably would have become more solid with age, though we’ll never know. [x]

A trio of morphs. The bright yellow hued golden albino, what looks like two melanophore (black pigment) and xanthophore (yellowish pigment) deficient white albinos, and the ever popular pink gilled and darked eyed leucistic that most people are familiar with.[x]

Leucistic axolotls can have black markings, this particular one has a solid black mask and freckled back. [x]

Half wild type and have leucistic, this chimera is a flashy whoopsie made by two embryos fusing into one animal early on in it’s development. [x]

I can’t find much info on this gorgeous enigma. It seems to have characteristics of the melanoids in it’s dark base color, with patches of golden flakes standing out against it. The gills are pink, and the undersides appear to be a translucent white.[x]

A wild type axolotl with the eyeless mutation, this trait is said to render the animal sterile. [x]

My personal favorite, an eyeless animal with an unknown skin mutation. The skin is a shade of orange-red I’ve never seen in other examples, with thick looking patches of white that appear to be some sort of fungus, though is just a strange build up of pigmentation. [x]

Also they’re tiny.

I would never dismiss someone's phobia. I know what kind of hell on earth that shit is. And I don't mock people for being scared of wasps or bees because some people have allergies that can kill them and it's kinda dumb to be rude to someone who is afraid of something that might kill them. But it's done people such a disservice that culture tells people it's reasonable to be afraid of all bugs and that most bugs will hurt you or your house or your pets.

I see so many comments and tags on posts about nature saying things like "I would love to spend time outside but I can't handle being around bugs" as if it's normal! If you can't sit on grass or go on a hike because of your fear of bugs, that's like...clinically significant highly disabling stuff. It's locking you away from so many experiences.

Fears like this often get reinforced by witnessing other people's responses to a stimulus. We are social creatures and if you watch the people around you show disgust and fear in response to bugs, you will learn to respond that way too. If you hear on the internet and TV and elsewhere that most bugs are dangerous and want to hurt you or will give you diseases, it will be reinforced even more.

The fact is, bugs are just guys. We depend on them for almost every part of our lives. Our planet is teeming with so many wondrous life forms, and many of them are insects. They come in every color and every form of iridescence, they glow and sparkle and they are fuzzy and striped and spotted. They are not "gross" or dirty.

Insects worldwide are now dropping in number, and it could mean disaster for us and every life form on earth. Most flowering plants (80% or so) have a symbiotic partnership with insects where they are dependent on insect pollination to fertilize their flowers. Wasps, bees, flies, butterflies, and even ants and beetles are all important pollinators, and each plant's flowers are designed to be pollinated by a different group of insects. Without these insects, the majority of flowering plant species would not be able to exist. They would go extinct. That includes most of the plants we eat. No wasps, bees, flies and other pollinators= no apples, no berries, no peaches, no plums, no anything. That's a simplified summary but it expresses just how important they are.

A big reason for it is the use of insecticides that are highly toxic to a wide variety of non-target insects. For instance, carbaryl, typically known as Sevin in the US, was for a long time sold in every garden center in a powdery dust form, to put on garden plants that had holes in their leaves.

Carbaryl dust is incredibly toxic to bees and can be picked up by them in the same way as pollen, and in that way it can be carried back to the hive and kill the whole hive.

Many of these insecticides are also highly dangerous to humans, and using them in and around your home exposes you to poisonous and/or potentially cancer-causing substances. The residues of these insecticides linger basically forever inside homes. There have been studies done that found insecticides that have been banned for a long time still lingering in people's carpets and floors.

So it's not good that so many people are terrified of insects. And the best antidote is to learn. Learn about bugs and their diversity and unique beauty and intelligence. If videos are no good, look at books with pictures; if you don't want to look at pictures, books without pictures or podcasts might help. Maybe start with bugs that seem less frightening and move on to learning about others from there.

Learn about their ways and behaviors and how they are similar to animals you are more familiar with, such as birds or cats. Learn the ways in which they are similar to you—you will find that you share many important qualities, like "enjoy fruit" and "would defend friends and family." Join bug identification groups online. Learn from people who keep bugs as pets.

A side effect of this is that you might become very upset because you want to pet bees and you can't pet the bees because your hands are too large and they are too small. :(

It is 100% possible to get over a fear of bugs. You have to want it. I used to be absolutely petrified if a bug was in the room, I wouldn't even go through the door. I was so scared of the idea of touching a spider that I shook out my bed sheets every night in case there was one. I didn't want to get over my fear because I didn't know anything about bugs, they weren't animals to me -- they were just meaningless mindless drones.

I started to want to when I started to learn more about them, their roles in the ecosystem, their behavior that actually makes a lot of sense because they're just animals. Step one was acknowledging every bug I saw as a living creature, saying to it "You're a lot like me, we are more alike than different, we want a lot of the same things (food, water, rest, not to get hurt) and we share the same space whether either of us like it or not." Even if I still wouldn't go near them, I stopped feeling the urge to kill them.

Step two was learning about my native bug species. I downloaded the app iNaturalist and started to learn to identify them. I uploaded a lot of pictures of flowers and mushrooms and birds but I felt encouraged to get closer to bugs so I could get pictures of them and identify them. Eventually I was able to get really up close with bugs I found outside, even bees and yes, spiders, to admire them. I really recommend this app if you're trying to get over a fear of something in nature -- be it bugs, or birds, fungus, etc.

Step three is getting comfortable with bugs crawling on, landing on and touching you. It probably sounds impossible if you're anything like I was 5 years ago. If you start with step one now, in 5 years you'll see what I'm talking about.

(1) time of day and lighting plus angle. This isn't thé only red photo out there, but it's certainly one of the most striking I've seen.

(2) the water flowing into it is very brown, there's a lot of sediment in it. Conglomerate and sandstone is the mix I saw listed when I checked.

(3) the foam mixing in will make the brown colour lighter which can make it easier for us to pick out the red elements

(4) waterfall is haunted.

"At the base of Kaieteur the force of the falling water creates a weird phenomenon – constant hurricane. There are constant waves in the small pond, the air is full with fleeces of foam gyrating chaotically. The wind is pulling the visitors and it seems that the day is grey and stormy. But – as one leaves the base of falls – it turns out that the sun is shining and all trees stand calmly."