The missing OceanGate Titan submarine on a Titanic expedition is apparently controlled with a Logitech G F710 wireless gamepad, which retailed for $29.99 USD on Amazon before quickly selling out. Its location was last reported to be somewhere in the North Atlantic, approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod, in a body of water that is as deep as 13,000 feet.
This mission consisted of five tourists who paid $250,000 USD each who disappeared around 105-minutes after their dive began. Rescue efforts are continuing to ramp, as banging sounds have been picked up by a Canadian P-3 aircraft from the Atlantic Ocean. These sounds first came every 30 minutes and was heard again four hours later. Since there is a lot of metal and other debris in the water around the Titanic site, the source of the noise cannot be pinpointed as of now.
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Former submariner here. The controller isn’t the issue, but symptomatic. This was not a quality vessel with a quality crew. When comms are lost within 90 minutes of the dive (not even a distress signal), it means catastrophic failure, very likely hull-pressure failure. Unlike a Navy submarine which undergoes the rigorous SUBSAFE certification system (implemented after the USS Thresher disaster), this private sub was not properly maintained/rated for the depth it was trying to achieve,” said one commenter.
