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James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's not unusual, for example:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] notoftenthat 1 points 1 year ago

http://www.scip-engineering.com/

There are "mil spec" controllers that look a lot like a game controller but have a ginormous screw on connector doodad.