For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).
They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?
Sadly I don’t think so. This incident was absolutely preventable. Someone warned them about this and they got fired. A makeshift vessel that wasn’t inspected/certified, immersed to almost 3 times the rated depth, controlled by a wireless Logitech gamepad from 2010 with no redundancy and only 96 hours of oxygen. I really really hope for a last minute miracle though…
Really? No redundancy on the controls? If anything along the chain fails, not even some emergency ascent lever?
Edit: plenty of redundancy - “If the remote fails, the propellers can be controlled through an internal hard-wire system, Newman said.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/21/us/inside-missing-titan-submersible-titanic-tour/index.html
And https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183273102/titan-missing-sub-titanic-rescue-oceangate claims 7 ways to surface.