titanic gawker submersible still missing.

[Fireball]

Yeah, 5 privileged thrill-seeking men pay $250k to view a sunken boat; navy, air force, coast guard, state air guard rescue, front page news

While desperate migrants die on sea and no rescue, not much news cover.

Well, technically three privileged thrill-seeking men paying $250k. Two of the five were crew members. Also, given that two of the three were father and son, I suspect it might only be two wallets being opened.

Frankly, if there's anyone who really doesn't deserve sympathy, it's the people who made the damn sub. I can remember watching James Cameron's Titanic and the opening scenes were set on a somewhat similar submersible. I say somewhat similar because I remember them going out of their way to explain how high-tech everything was, and how everything was still in a precarious situation, since if any of the windows cracked, everyone involved was dead. And this wound up being the exact opposite of High-Tech.  

You know what they used for navigation? This.


It's a Bluetooth video game controller that costs $30 new on Amazon. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the sort of hardware that exists to help you play Ocarina of Time is not the same sort of hardware you should trust to keep you alive 12,000 feet below sea level.

There's more information on the Titan's previous voyage. At least it survived that time, but there were still a lot of red flags:




And because they operated in international waters, they apparently weren't even subject to any sort of safety regulations.

The structure was completely unqualified for its mission, as many sources have mentioned. Not saying that your complaint about the controller is unfounded. In any investigation I've been involved with when something failed, there is a plethora of associated contributing factors.