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Do you _know_ they had spare controllers?

• greiskul 3y ago
  Yes. In a 2022 interview with CBC, Rush added the Bluetooth game controllers were durable — “it’s meant for a 16 year old to throw it around,” he said, tossing the controller to the floor — and that they kept spares on board “just in case.” https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/20/video-game-controllers-and-a-single-button-what-its-like-on-board-the-missing-oceangate-sub.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/20/video-game-co... Also, the controllers appear to be only to control the periscope. Which is not a critical component of this submarine. Everybody is fixating on them, but that's not what caused them to sink/get lost. It was probably the rest of the shoddy engineering.
  • prmoustache 3y ago
    Having spares is one thing. The question is do they test spares on a regular basis, make sure they have been charged between every mission and rotate them to test battery life?
  • saberdancer 3y ago
    No, controller on Titan is for movement as he talked about it (they don't have a periscope). But he also mentioned a touch screen when talking about the controller so I bet that they can use the touchscreen to control the submarine as well. Still most likely cause of failure is that the viewport failed and they died immediately.