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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months 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.