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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Supposedly the glued on titanium is the same thing the US Army does for their small Submarines, though I'm sure they found some way to cheap out/fuck up.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I know of at least a couple maintenance shops that will give their expired composite materials to a mechanic school for students to use in class projects. This usage is actually a good idea, completely unlike using it to build a manned submersible.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Recycled parts? That's simply being too dumb to be alive on this world. And I thought putting a wireless xbox controller for navigating the damn sub was dumb enough.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Frankly that controller was probably the most reliable part of the sub

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    If it was setup properly, you just us an if statement like, "if communication lost to control for t>5 seconds, release balast" or something like that. I had 0 issue with the controller being an ots consumer good. The rest was an idiotic design, I won't even say it was engineered.

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