Missing Titanic sub...

...Used a $30 gaming joystick to steer?

WTF???? Anyone that stupid to get into a can without seats deserves what they get.

This is what they'll see tomorrow.

Sounds like a pretty awful way to go if it is indeed at the bottom of the ocean.   I dont think they know where it is yet, right?  I read one article that said if it runs out of power it automatically floats to the top of the water in which case its just bobbing on the waves somewhere....but if it sank I think they're fucked.   

Well, that's the difference between a submersible and a submarine...but I wonder what they could possibly have hoped to find in the most picked-over shipwreck in history.

The owner, his can, and his $30 joystick.

Article in our paper today described two possible mishaps, "lost all power" or "hull breach and imploded instantly.  Both...devastatingly hopeless."  A "longtime ocean scientist" and friend of one of the crew said it is a "fundamentally new submarine design."  

I'd never say anyone "deserves what they get", as all of history contains terrible outcomes resulting from trying something with the hope of future benefit. 

Reminds me what was said about all of the NASA projects from the beginning...every mission had problems that had not been thought of and corrected beforehand...1) Apollo 1 (the hatch that couldn't be opened from the inside, fire, 3 astronauts killed); 2) the Challenger (the seals, unanticpated temperature drop though that problem was known and reported before launch); Apollo 13, defective part that sparked in an oxygen tank during flight.  Can't recall what happened on Columbia, other than heat seal didn't hold on re-entry?

Pray they find this thing and the crew alive, but sounds ominous.

Candy

Remember this scene from the movie, Airplane?

 I will never understand the desire to want to ride in a "tin can" to view the wreck of the Titanic - and much less pay a quarter of a million dollars to do so. -- https://abcnews.go.com/International/missing-titanic-submersible-5-passengers/story?id=100224250&fbclid=IwAR0SGu1KAigZSLgPBOmmnGpwOLwvjhLXpUyjlhgwyEF2qnBgEYuyk2d4KRQ

Titanic submersible CEO had spoken about worry of vessel not surfacing --https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/21/titantic-submersible-ceo-oceangate-stockton-rush/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3a5d6c3%2F649320eda3f8013af013a35f%2F646425c4b5db760954857c69%2F8%2F72%2F649320eda3f8013af013a35f

They'll never find them alive.

There's still a decent chance. I certainly hope they're OK.