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Holly Patrick @ The Independent:

The OceanGate CEO believed to be missing on board a Titanic exploration submersible described how the vessel was “built with camping” parts and operated with a “game controller” in a resurfaced video.

In November 2022, Stockton Rush told CBS the Titan craft was built with “off-the-shelf components.”

Pointing at parts of the vessel, Mr Rush said: “We can use these off-the-shelf components. I got these from Camping World.

“We run the whole thing with this game controller,” he added, picking up a gamepad.

Reporter David Pogue said pieces of the submersible seemed “improvised,” but Mr Rush told him the vessel would be “safe” even if parts didn’t work.

Mr Rush is believed to be among the five-person crew aboard the craft.

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[–] tom@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, the news trying to make a big deal of the game controller thing seems silly to me. Modern controllers are generally well designed based on research and experience and have lots of options for mapping actions to different buttons. Also, it can easily be switched out when something better comes along.

[–] crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

100%. There are literally military weapons systems using an Xbox One controller. This article is garbage clickbait.