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Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@vlemmy.net to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Frankly the biggest safety issue is that they have no transponder. So even if something goes wrong and they have to surface, rescuers are stuck looking for a drifting needle in a 41 million square mile haystack.

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I'm shocked by this. I would have thought that they'd at least be not-stupid enough to have something like that.

[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you'd think they'd at least have an EPIRB or something along those lines?