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Not just ‘experimental’. This thing looks like something you’d find on a backyard engineering website. Some of it’s functionality is accessed with an offbrand video game controller.

CBS interview featuring the submersible.

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The bit with the contract starts @2:40. At least you can’t say they didn’t know what they were getting into. Still an awful way to go, if it did implode at depth, at least it’d be quick.

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I think I’d rather implode and go instantly, than be floating on the surface for 4 days and unable to get out while slowly suffocating.

Neither is my idea of a good time…

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Can they not open a hatch if it’s on the surface?

Water would be a problem still, but not suffocation, if so.

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And their navigation is dependent on text messages from the support ship they charter. Oh, dear.

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