Search continues for missing submarine with five people inside when visiting the Titanic. And meanwhile, data about him continues to emerge.
The most recent and amazing: It was operated with a simple video game controller. According to The Verge, the Titan submersible worked with a Logitech gamepad.
The information appears in a segment of CBS News Sunday Morning, quoted by The Verge.
According to this video, “Titan heralds state-of-the-art lighting and sonar navigation systems, as well as 4K photography and video equipment internally and externally mounted.
Later, Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company Ocean Gate, headline of the Titan, says: “We handle everything … with this video game controller”, showing the Logitech F710 wireless gamepad.
The disappearance of the Titan submarine, from OceanGate, when visiting the Titanic
Rush is in the Titan submarine along with four other members of the trip: Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and her son Suleman, British explorer Hamish Harding and Frenchman Paul-Henry Nargeolet.
OceanGate offers eight-day, seven-night voyages to visit the wreck of the Titanic, sunk in 1912, in the Atlantic Ocean. Each ticket has an approximate cost of 250 thousand dollars.
The submersible disappeared last weekend about 380 nautical miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and since Monday local authorities and the United States are looking for him. Recently there was talk of having detected “sounds” in the area.
A simple video game control to drive a submersible, isn’t it dangerous?
The use of video game control for the management of naval elements is not unusual. According to The Verge, the US Navy uses gamepads for underwater periscopes and photonic masts.
The Boring Company, company created by Elon Musk, showed an Xbox One controller for one of its gigantic drilling machines.
“Gamepads are versatile, comfortable, and familiar to use,” notes The Verge editor Richard Lawler, “but I’ve had controllers malfunction during intense matches enough times to raise an eyebrow at a rather generic wirelessly connected device being relied on for something so important.”
“This isn’t just the periscope, as Rush describes it: It’s the ship itself.” Lawler stresses.
The big unknown about the OceanGate submersible is, why did you lose communication? What happened so that he could not continue reporting his location?
For now, the search continues, with concern that less and less oxygen remains inside the submarine.