[zeitgeistcowboy]

What a great example of an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym . This guy's last name is Heersink and he's finding out where all the boats sank.

[polishdude20]

Reminds me of Andrej Karpathy. "car pathy" And he worked on Tesla Autopilot.

[tmrtsmith]

And Nominative Determinism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

[coryfklein]

Wow that article is full of gold: * Justice named Igor Judge * Lawyer named James Counsell * Lawyer named Sue Yoo * Weather reporter named Storm Field * Vicar named Michael Vickers * Orthopedic surgeons named Limb, Limb, Limb, and Limb

[BitwiseFool]

Sometimes I feel like the universe really is a simulation and these names are the result of QA testers having a little bit of fun keeping track of who's who.

[mkapoor26]

Interesting thing is he spent eight years creating a comprehensive dataset of over 14,500 mapped records of sunken ships...why??

[mapsterman]

Going on 12 years now. If I had known it would have taken so long before I started I might not have taken this on. It’s been a lot of work on my own time but it’s something I enjoy. Why did I start? I thought it would be cool to see it all mapped and see the patterns that result, including the temporal ones. And I think I was right - it is cool. Also, aside from this forum there’s been a huge interest in from folks involved with cleaning up potentially polluting wrecks and underwater cultural sites. Glad people are enjoying it and finding it worthwhile.

[xpe]

I applaud such hobbies. Compare the time spent on it relative to, say, ingesting Netflix into your optic nerve.

[mkapoor26]

Yeah, you're right I guess. Better than popping your eye watching cringe shows.

[ghaff]

People have obsessive hobbies. There are tons of examples.