Kinda like taking a squeeze bottle of ketchup, laying it on a large anvil, and dropping a car on it. Splort!
Thank you for that image. 
There’s a new documentary:
For Christmas, I got my Titanic obsessed son a downloadable game where you pilot a submersible to the wreck. In-game, the sub looks suspiciously like the OceanGate Titan. True to form, the difficult-to-control sub never gets anywhere near the Titanic before you briefly get a depth warning (regardless of your depth) and then you die in a catastrophic failure. Every time no matter what you try to do.
Only if the flag has gold fringe.
Well-played, sir. 
Art imitates Life.
I was in St. John’s, Newfoundland, last October, for a conference. It was in a nice hotel, overlooking the harbour, and the hotel bar/restaurant certainly overlooked the harbour, with nice big windows. It was a popular gathering spot for us after the day’s proceedings were over.
Lots of fun and laughter, and meeting new people, and enjoying watching the harbour traffic come and go, until someone said, “Wasn’t over there [pointing] where they brought up the remains of that submersible that imploded last June?”
Kinda put a damper on happy hour that day.
The 2020’s version of “You have died of dysentery.”
So, pretty accurate sim then.
A new documentary that may be of interest …
Now someone else is having a go …
Even better if they can get back safely.
Same with climbing Everest.
In the 1929 version of “They Mysterious Island,” there’s this exchange between Count Dakkar (Lionel Barrymore) and another person:
Dakkar: “I’m going to build a ship that can go to the bottom of the sea.”
Other person: “Lots of people have done that!”
Dakkar: [Chuckling] “Yes, but mine is going to come back up again!”
OK, that’s all I have.
The article says he’s hiring Triton Submarines to build the sub for him. Triton has built 25 submersibles and have a 100% safety record. They’ve built a submersible with unlimited depth certification from the DNV. It seems if you’re a billionaire who wants a sub, hiring them is the correct way to do it, as opposed to starting your own company, buying some second hand carbon fibre, mixing epoxy by hand and cleaning the mating surfaces with a rag, and hiring the Deep Ones to run your legal department.
Yes, there never was any question that the Titanic, or Challenger Deep, for that matter, can be safely visited. The question is, can they be visited safely in a poorly made composite-hulled vessel that ignores safety and a hundred years of experience? THAT answer was demonstrated quite convincingly.
But… but… he was a disruptor.
You have to take into account the “ego factor” He was going to show the world that he could do the whole thing from beginning to end. … NOT!
I have it on good authority that Marsh & Associates are among the finest maritime lawyers in the business. For some reason they’ve got an incredible affinity for the sea that give them a fin up on competition.