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Jesus Christ that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. The submarine in the game Iron Lung was safer to drive than this thing.
But Wilby said that for the Titan, the coordinate data was transcribed into a notebook by hand and then entered into Excel before loading the spreadsheet into mapping software to track the sub’s position on a hand-drawn map of the wreckage.
The OceanGate team tried to perform these updates at least every five minutes, but it was a slow, manual process done while communicating with the gamepad-controlled sub via short text messages.
Updates every FIVE MINUTES?! I wouldn’t even trust this thing in a damn swimming pool.
I really do wonder why they ended up in this. It can’ be that hard to make even a hacky DIY system to do it automatically. The navigation system just had to have some digital or even analog output, then it would be just the problem of interpreting the signal with some script and writing it into a file.
When Wilby recommended the company use standard software to process ping data and plot the sub’s telemetry automatically, the response was that the company wanted to develop an in-house system, but didn’t have enough time.
I like how the company didn’t consider using standard software to do it, and then switch to the in-house system that they made later, instead of just having it done by hand instead.
There are better ways to do that even in Excel!
Man if it wasn’t for that kid that was probably dragged into this, I’d be fucking rolling rn. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not see the sea of red flags???
According to Ross, six days before the Titan submarine imploded, the sub’s pilot and the company’s cofounder, Stockton Rush, crashed the vessel into a launch mechanism bulkhead while the vessel was attempting to resurface from dive 87. […] but Ross said he did not know if an inspection of the sub was carried out afterward.
How does every new detail about the excursion keep getting worse? Next week I’m going to learn they used Saran wrap for the windows.
It is my understanding that Rush also hard-bottomed the sub (crashed into the sea floor) while diving to the Andrea Doria. And was a little piss baby about it the entire time.
That’s apparently a shorter version of the video I’d seen previously; eventually Rush does hand over the controls, by throwing the playstation controller at the guy’s head.
As if I needed more reasons to be happy he was reduced to a fine paste
The sub was totaled. Like you need to change a helmet after a crash even it it looks fine
And the week after that, we’ll find out that the sub didn’t even go into the ocean. They crushed it in a car compactor.
Man, a hand typed spreadsheet must have been hard to navigate with the PlayStation controller.
What an incredible sentence.
It wasn’t even a PlayStation controller, it was a knockoff Logitech controller shaped like a DualShock but with Xbox colored buttons.
Good thing the world didn’t lose anything valuable.
Hey, that was an ok controller they used to navigate
The more you hear about this sub the worse it gets.
I’m not surprised, of course, given the shortcuts Rush was determined to take.
Also it’s the first time I saw the picture in that article of the other crushed remains. I’m pretty impressed they could get pictures that deep.
Of course it did!
I’m ready to weep from this.
Every time any problem comes up, my current manager insists we must use Excel to solve it.
Wait, I didn’t even realise Williams F1 was involved…
I love it!
The schadenfreude, I mean.
