The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

  • static
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    272 years ago

    Using a game controller is not that unusual.
    but it was wireless, that is bad.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        102 years ago

        The thrusters on the outside. The goal was to minimize hull penetrations for cabling and things.

        • PabloDiscobar
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          62 years ago

          Thank you, so the signal went through the water a little bit. We had a struggle about it in a different thread.

          • Flaky_Fish69
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            12 years ago

            Probably not, actually. carbon fiber is opaque to blue tooth. Even a single ply carbon shell is enough to block it. My DLG r/c airplane uses an arramid section for the antenna.

      • SpacemanSpiffOP
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        42 years ago

        I’ve heard of this. Out of curiosity (because I don’t actually know), do you know if the controllers used in military applications are literally “off the shelf” or if they’re “Xbox-like”, which is what most descriptions about them say.

        In other words, I suspect the military(s) using these type of controllers are not just ordering them off Amazon and using them as-is, whereas it sounds like that’s exactly what OceanGate did.