Is it because everything else on the sub was ordered from aliexpress and pieced together? This was the only part from a legitimate manufacturer?
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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It's true, I bought one thinking it was cheaper and easier than a PS5 controller, and my couch imploded.
Yeah but was JD Vance piloting the couch? Because that's basically a mercy suicide imho.
I've owned this controller for years. Can confirm it sucks.
Oh yeah, the controller is clearly the one a fault here......
I mean, they clearly made this for an submersible, one made of carbon fibre specifically.
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Behind the Bastards did a pretty great two-parter on Stockton Rush, and how a) he completely shit the bed while ignoring all the super-deep-exploration experts, and b) how nature was totally telegraphing to Rush and OceanGate that this submersible is totally not doing it and will end in a spectacular tragedy, only no one else will be down there to watch but the fishes.
The controller wasn't a particularly weak link, though for safety's sake I'd want there to be a redundant spare, and it set up for plug and play. But higher on my priority list would be things like integrity monitors and an emergency way to open the sub from the inside (the hatch was bolted from the outside, and there were no emergency exit measures.
To be fair, they all exited the vehicle pretty quickly at the time without it needing to be unbolted from the outside. Experts... pfft.
pfft.
The sound made as they exited, spaghettified.
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... How do you propose to emergency exit that sub at 1000 meters depth?
I'd say the bigger issue is that he used a carbon fibre body, a material which has great tensile Strength but sucks for this.
They way bigger issue than that is that he glued the metal rear section to the carbon fiber body. Both materials expand and contract differently under pressure, which is not what you want at 3 kilometer deep pressures, especially with multiple descends and ascends. That glue could never keep those materials together, that alone was a disaster waiting to happen
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willfully get in a sub built by an idiot known to have said very weird things about safety
die
your „estate” sues the sub company for $50 million
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