Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.

    • FloatingAlong
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      172 years ago

      Jesus Christ, in reading about this, I had been imagining a sleek, high-tech marvel of engineering.

      That thing is a slapped-together mess.

      • ivanafterall
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        72 years ago

        Pretty sure the middle is just PVC pipe from the mix-and-match pipe aisle at Home Depot.

        • darkmuggle
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          32 years ago

          I would pay $250k to go down in a sub with parts sourced from home Depot /s

    • BeHereNow
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      82 years ago

      Just being bolted into that thing is nightmare fuel.

    • wafer
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      42 years ago

      Looks like I can’t watch that from Canada :(

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      There’s nothing wrong with that at all.

      The US military literally uses Xbox controllers for a lot of their drones and tech.

      It’s kind of a rare move by the Pentagon of actually spend smartly.

      Why spend millions on R&D to develop something that already exists and has been iterated based on massive operator feedback a dozen times over decades? It’s literally a platform that has been designed and honed to operate vehicles of every shape and size.