Science Tourist(s) missing in submarine while trying to reach the Titannic - Page 33

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-coa...-sub-1.6446841

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A search and rescue operation is currently underway to locate a submarine that went missing during an expedition to the Titanic.
The U.S. Coast Guard was looking for the submarine Monday morning after it disappeared during the expedition from St. John's, N.L. The infamous 1912 wreck is located more than 600 kilometres southeast of the province in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The trip to the Titanic was being run by OceanGate Expeditions, a U.S.-based company. It uses a five-person submersible named Titan to reach the wreckage 3,800 metres below the surface. OceanGate's website advertises a seven-night voyage to the Titanic for US$250,000 per person, or approximately CA$330,000.
"We are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely," an OceanGate spokesperson said in an email to CTV News. "Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families."

Those tours are a series of five eight-day missions to the Titanic with the money raised by tourists going towards Titanic research. Posts on social media show the ship launched from the St. John's area last week.

Did they really have 5 people in this?? Or do they have a larger version??

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Originally Posted by DaFace:
It's weird how much attention people are paying to the controller. They're used all over the place, including some uses by the Navy.

I'd be much more concerned about the other systems.

complete disclosure and total fairness:

I cut and pasted that section of the article because i laughed at the term steering aparatus but the guy who bailed actually did mention other systems, like a locator beacon , techical issues, delays and so forth..

I included a link in my post but you have to click through to the sun which is annoying , maybe ill repost it in a spoiler.....

but you are 100% correct... i think the xbox controller was one red flag among many
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It's the wireless aspect that would concern me. That's a whole lot of shit that can go wrong for no apparent payback given the confines of the sub. All risk, no reward.
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Originally Posted by Pawnmower:
Best decision this dude made... apparently he bailed out when he saw the Xbox controller

lol @ steering aparatus

That guy seems to lead a pretty good life. And thanks to his skepticism about steering apparatuses, he still is leading one.
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Originally Posted by Rain Man:
steering apparatuses,

trivial factoid

apparatus can be pluralized by adding the ES at the end like you did:

She used 3 apparatuses on me last night.

Or apparently you can just use apparatus as the plural itself:

I returned the favor by using 2 huge apparatus on her.

But one thing you must simply NOT do is try to use the I ending to pluralize apparatus:

Now I am obsessed with buying many apparati on Wish and Temu.

Using the I to pluralize apparatus is simply not allowed.
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Originally Posted by Kman34:
They forgot to change the battery...

Back in early 2000's I put together a cell phone jammer that would knock out every cell phone within a 15 yard radius from radio shack & eBay parts. Wireless is convenient but also very flawed and I see absolutely no reward on a risk/reward meta of having that platform of comm with your controls on a sub.

Just dumb and blatantly placing an obvious failure point in the system.
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Originally Posted by Shiver Me Timbers:
Still don't get all the expidited"rescue" efforts. Perhaps it's a race to be the first to find 5 dead guys

honestly i think the vast majority of it was them searching the surface in case they drifted and floated up. they had to search a pretty huge surface area
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