I hope there’s some kind of black box… what would be worse than it happenning again one day because we don’t know what happenned.
It's controlled with a knockoff Xbox controller. I'll bet the "black box" is a cassette recorder bought from Goodwill for $3 and then spray painted black
BBC said that this sub (Titan) was damaged last year, and this was its first dive since being “repaired.”
I’m betting it didn’t have a black box, and we’ll never know if the “repair” was the cause.
It has 96 hours of life support, I have faith.
This may be true, but how much time does it take to surface to avoid decompression sickness if they are found? This, of course, assumes that the surface in the same vehicle.
Who even has the vessels that can go deep enough to rescue them? This is the stuff of nightmares
I feel bad for the families of folks
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