What you need to know
- Earlier this week, an OceanGate submersible with five people aboard went missing after it failed to surface following a tourist dive of the wreck of the Titanic.
- Since then, rescue teams have been working around-the-clock to locate and recover the craft and everyone aboard. At the time of writing, it hasn't yet been found.
- On social media, many have compared the situation to the 2022 indie horror game Iron Lung, in which players control a lone submariner who has to navigate an alien ocean and photograph key locations before the craft succumbs to pressure or its oxygen runs out.
- Sales of the game have skyrocketed, and many users have made dark jokes about how eerily similar it is to the ongoing real-world situation.
- Iron Lung's creator, David Szymanski, has commented that the sales uptick "feels so wrong," and that while he can "definitely see the dark humor in this whole Titanic sub thing," it's ultimately horrific "knowing real people are in that situation right now."
