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?

  • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Seeing the construction of the submersible, I would not have ridden it… As soon as the inventer said “I got these from, uh, camper world…” I would be scurrying the hell out of that thing…

    Apparently the acrylic viewing window was not rated for that depth, and the body of the submersible is constructed from carbon fiber… That whole rig seems sketchy as hell to me…

    • HaphazardFinesse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I mean, I agree that the construction is sketchy (runs the whole thing from an off-brand playstation controller? Couldn’t splurge on the $800 for a real cassette toilet?), but acrylic and carbon fiber are appropriate material choices, if they were used in the appropriate thicknesses and configurations.

        • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I mean, are there better materials to use where the thickness and configurations wouldn’t matter?

      • Pixel of Life@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Nothing wrong with using off-the-shelf gamepads for an application like this. They’re cheap, surprisingly reliable, compact, and use the same communication protocol so you can easily bring multiple controllers made by different manufacturers for redundancy. And it doesn’t matter if your primary control interface is a $50 gamepad or a $10k custom setup, you should still have a completely separate backup system.

      • zombuey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        ya if there is any one part of the vehicle you would have trouble arguing its the hull it was designed by some of the best minds in the world that specifically specialize in this type of travel at Boeing and MIT.

    • Clairvoidance@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      this video’s journalists even are like “dude this is incredibly scuffed”, those scientists with them should be considered heroes in some sense