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> 1. The Camera+Card was encased in a separate enclosure made of titanium+sapphire, and did not seem to be exposed to extreme pressures. I wonder what the pric

> 1. The Camera+Card was encased in a separate enclosure made of titanium+sapphire, and did not seem to be exposed to extreme pressures. I wonder what the price of the enclosure was then. Feels a bit like click bait...

spacecadet 1y ago
Alot. Just google cameras for deep sea and space. Several companies make these and despite all the covering up, none of the tech is that special.
squigz 1y ago
Clickbait? Where? How? It's literally in the NTSB report, and it's not like, a crazy concept?
- jodrellblank 1y ago
  Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price. Instead, a pressure-proof deep sea camera module was found at the wreckage site. It’s less interesting that an expensive thing rated for ocean depths was intact at ocean depths. Its like “missing child found after 4 days in Alaska temperatures!” gasp! How did they survive! “The child was on holiday in their grandparents’ holiday log cabin, with their grandparents, a log fire, food, water..” Oh. Clickbait. Hiding the boring bit to make the story appear more of a tease.
  - Spooky23 1y ago
    That was a laugh I needed and I’m using that in the future. The timing was perfect and I lost some coffee. Thank you!
  - quuxplusone 1y ago
    I noticed a pattern a few months ago in my phone's newsbait feed of headlines in the format "[Large familiar company] to close 500 stores on [date]" — and then below the fold "because it's [Independence Day, Rosh Hashanah, etc]" or "because they are moving to summer hours" or whatever.
  - bigstrat2003 1y ago
    > Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price. I certainly did not read that implication into the title, so it's entirely possible that the author didn't mean it.
    - jodrellblank 1y ago
      - camera module found, was there photo/video/audio of the disaster? (no) - thing survived ocean depths, unexpectedly. Without either of those, what did you read into the title? "Part of wreckage found at wreckage site"? And you still clicked?
- account42 1y ago
  The title of TFA is clickbait - it tries to make it sound like the memory card itself withstood extreme pressures.
rtkwe 1y ago
It might have been filled with mineral oil, those external enclosures often setup that way so that the enclosure is less extreme to manufacture. Not sure if that would work for camera lenses though unless those were also filled.
- robotguy 1y ago
  As someone who was on the product team for a 6000msw video camera, it's probably not filled with mineral oil. I doubt anyone makes subsea camera bodies/optics completely from scratch, and off-the-shelf units are not designed for pressure. In ours we used Sony camera internals, the enclosure was atmospheric, filled with dry nitrogen to reduce condensation, and the sapphire lens was designed to resist 12500psi and reduce distortion from the air-->sapphire-->seawater interface.
  - rtkwe 1y ago
    Hmm ok that would have explained why the SD card wasn't damaged if it were because when the vessel is filled with mineral oil it wouldn't have imploded like the main body of the craft.

spacecadet 1y ago

Alot. Just google cameras for deep sea and space. Several companies make these and despite all the covering up, none of the tech is that special.

squigz 1y ago

Clickbait? Where? How? It's literally in the NTSB report, and it's not like, a crazy concept?

jodrellblank 1y ago
Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price. Instead, a pressure-proof deep sea camera module was found at the wreckage site. It’s less interesting that an expensive thing rated for ocean depths was intact at ocean depths. Its like “missing child found after 4 days in Alaska temperatures!” gasp! How did they survive! “The child was on holiday in their grandparents’ holiday log cabin, with their grandparents, a log fire, food, water..” Oh. Clickbait. Hiding the boring bit to make the story appear more of a tease.
- Spooky23 1y ago
  That was a laugh I needed and I’m using that in the future. The timing was perfect and I lost some coffee. Thank you!
- quuxplusone 1y ago
  I noticed a pattern a few months ago in my phone's newsbait feed of headlines in the format "[Large familiar company] to close 500 stores on [date]" — and then below the fold "because it's [Independence Day, Rosh Hashanah, etc]" or "because they are moving to summer hours" or whatever.
- bigstrat2003 1y ago
  > Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price. I certainly did not read that implication into the title, so it's entirely possible that the author didn't mean it.
  - jodrellblank 1y ago
    - camera module found, was there photo/video/audio of the disaster? (no) - thing survived ocean depths, unexpectedly. Without either of those, what did you read into the title? "Part of wreckage found at wreckage site"? And you still clicked?
account42 1y ago
The title of TFA is clickbait - it tries to make it sound like the memory card itself withstood extreme pressures.

rtkwe 1y ago

It might have been filled with mineral oil, those external enclosures often setup that way so that the enclosure is less extreme to manufacture. Not sure if that would work for camera lenses though unless those were also filled.

robotguy 1y ago
As someone who was on the product team for a 6000msw video camera, it's probably not filled with mineral oil. I doubt anyone makes subsea camera bodies/optics completely from scratch, and off-the-shelf units are not designed for pressure. In ours we used Sony camera internals, the enclosure was atmospheric, filled with dry nitrogen to reduce condensation, and the sapphire lens was designed to resist 12500psi and reduce distortion from the air-->sapphire-->seawater interface.
- rtkwe 1y ago
  Hmm ok that would have explained why the SD card wasn't damaged if it were because when the vessel is filled with mineral oil it wouldn't have imploded like the main body of the craft.