Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Crex Crex]

Even with insufficient lifeboats, poorly designed double bottom, faulty rivets and watertight doors that were too low, the Titanic was still safer than this carbon coffin.

 

[Lookie-lou]

But what about the question everyone actually cares about?

What became of the knockoff controller? It's usually called a PS2 controller but it actually wasn't it was some generic chinkware.

worse, it was a fucking logitech. Their mice are fine, but Logitech controllers have always been dumpster tier, last relic of the little brother Madcatz controller.

Give me a chinese offbrand any day of the week over that, more so since hall effect sticks are back in vogue.

 

[Oxyjen]

worse, it was a fucking logitech. Their mice are fine, but Logitech controllers have always been dumpster tier, last relic of the little brother Madcatz controller.

Give me a chinese offbrand any day of the week over that, more so since hall effect sticks are back in vogue.

Or, hear me out, maybe just buy an industrial joystick that doesn’t rely on some shitty PC and student’s python code to drive the thrusters, mount it to a sturdy metal box and bolt it to a fixed position so that it’s not going to get dropped, trodden on or hidden and then thrown by a retard.

 

[Procopius]

Or, hear me out, maybe just buy an industrial joystick that doesn’t rely on some shitty PC and student’s python code to drive the thrusters, mount it to a sturdy metal box and bolt it to a fixed position so that it’s not going to get dropped, trodden on or hidden and then thrown by a retard.

Would you want a sturdy metal box in the way when stuff like this happened regularly. At least a wireless one falls with everybody else.

The Titan sub malfunctioned days before its doomed voyage to the wreck of the Titanic, the science chief of its owner has told an inquiry.

Steven Ross said on Thursday that the issue caused passengers to "tumble about" and for the sub to crash into bulkheading, leaving one passenger "hanging upside down" and others hanging on inside.

He added that he did not know whether the Titan's hull was inspected for damage after the incident.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70w81ly299o

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

'All good here': Titan sub crew's last words before implosion

Here's a cut of the Coast Guard's recreation with the true and honest transcript. I couldn't find any uploads that weren't from YouTube bottom feeders adding their own worthless 2c so here it is from the horse's mouth.

The true last words were "dropped two wts" and it seems the telemetry data stopped immediately after.

 

[Preacher ✝]

This guy did a really good video analyzing the new data.

 

[Lemondale]

did the controller survive?

 

[Desu Mountain]

did the controller survive?

It was a Logitech controller, not a Nintendo controller.

 

[MoonState]

Day 4 of the hearing starts in 15 minutes.

 

[Oxyjen]

did the controller survive?

Y’know, it’s not in the slightest bit sealed, and is made of fairly hard materials. If it didn’t get smashed by other debris there’s a none-zero chance it remained completely intact and is resting on the ocean floor.

The passenger testifying just now recounted how, prior to his dive, they dropped the fucking sub onto the boat ramp, shearing off the 4 bolts temporarily holding the end dome on to the glued on titanium ring That would have been real good for the glue bond.
Then the thrusters didn’t work. Then the weights got stuck and it would barely ascend.

 

[Disrespected Pronouns]

I knew the Stockton Rush was retarded, but I didn't expect "let's waterproof the poorly made and wholly untested hull of our deep sea experimental sub by spraying it down with truck liner" level of durrr

 

[All Smiles]

Imagine being one of the few that successfully visited the Titanic on the carbon fibre sub.

Looking back, knowing your ass coulda got popped on at any moment, but somehow you made it safely back to the surface. Nuts.

 

[Oxyjen]

I knew the Stockton Rush was retarded, but I didn't expect "let's waterproof the poorly made and wholly untested hull of our deep sea experimental sub by spraying it down with truck liner" level of durrr

Wait until you hear how they navigated it.

 

[grump]

To give Stockton some credit, getting instantaneously vaporized with no idea its coming faster than you can be aware of it or feel any pain sounds a lot less painful than the way most people seem to go.

 

[Vecr]

To give Stockton some credit, getting instantaneously vaporized with no idea its coming faster than you can be aware of it or feel any pain sounds a lot less painful than the way most people seem to go.

Do you think that's why he was piloting? So he wouldn't have to deal with the aftermath if something went wrong?

 

[grump]

Do you think that's why he was piloting? So he wouldn't have to deal with the aftermath if something went wrong?

I think he risked his own life thinking it would tamp down on charges that he was being negligent or fraudulent or foolhardy. He's riding the sub himself so obviously he believes in it and took all the necessary precautions. And yeah I wouldn't be surprised if something like that crossed his mind.

He strikes me as at the core your typical unfulfilled post industrial guy who never got past his midlife crisis and the existential dread of aging. He wishes he lived in the Jetsons as the Elon Musk who took us there but he can't do space so he speedran Rapture as fast as he could. The impending money problems if true just making him more desperate.

I mean theres nothing wrong about being starry eyed and trying to reach for the future. I'm the same way but I tend to stop short at cutting corners on deep water subs.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I know it's morbid but I'm curios of what such an implosion looks like from the inside of the vessel. Those youtube 3D animations probably aren't realistic.

 

[Oxyjen]

I know it's morbid but I'm curios of what such an implosion looks like from the inside of the vessel. Those youtube 3D animations probably aren't realistic.

To the people inside? They’re dead before they know anything happened.
If you can slow down time it would look something like being in the barrel of a gun as it’s fired, except the bullet is the ocean expanding at you faster than the speed of sound.

 

[Fapcop]

To give Stockton some credit, getting instantaneously vaporized with no idea its coming faster than you can be aware of it or feel any pain sounds a lot less painful than the way most people seem to go.

If he had survived, it would make sense to pivot the company towards providing painless, though expensive suicide trips for people who want to end their life.

Sorta kidding.

Anyways, Stockton strikes me as the type who needed some more kicks in the balls by life.

He was likely praised a few times too many for being “smart” and “an innovator”. To the point where he thought he was smarter than an entire industry and confused cutting a few corners with pants-shitting retarded shit like covering a submersible with truck liner, and making his own shitty carbon scrubber at home from a PC fan.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

To the people inside? They’re dead before they know anything happened.

No, to someone looking at the people inside. Like an invisible observer. I can't wrap my head around a body being instantly reduced to nearly nothing by the immense pressure of water.