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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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What was the controller commanding btw?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.