The bathyscaphe that disappeared from the wreckage of the Titanic did not pass certification and was controlled by a joystick from a game console (4 photos + 1 video)

It seems that the OceanGate company and its bathyscaphe with people are already starting to be buried.





On the fourth day of the search for the Titan bathyscaphe, many Western The media began to write that the incident with the company's deep-sea submersible OceanGate was, in general, natural. This publication was told how experts, as well as wealthy people who have been on board a bathyscaphe or afraid to do so.

The Simpsons writer Mike Reiss told The Sun, who dived on the Titan submersible three times, and is almost always a pilot lost contact with the satellite. He noted that the bathyscaphe well designed, but because of the new technologies that were used in its creation, it was necessary to study the apparatus and its abilities along the way affairs.



Mike Reiss aboard the OceanGate bathyscaphe. Then the excursion to the Titanic ended successfully.

Friend of billionaire Richard Branson, businessman Chris Brown at one time he refused to dive on the ill-fated bathyscaphe, when found out that the device is controlled by a Logitech game controller costing 30 dollars. He also said that as the ballast of the bathyscaphe used old pipes for scaffolding.





Chris Brown and Richard Branson.

It is noted that 5 years ago bathyscaphe manufacturers warned OceanGate owner Rush Stockton of a possible tragedy due to the fact that his deep-sea vehicle was developed without taking into account safety standards and did not have certification.

A former employee also spoke about security problems David Lockridge Company. But he was fired in 2018 due to demands conduct additional tests and install another one in the apparatus porthole.



The same gamepad.

CBS journalist David Pogue told how last summer the bathyscaphe lost contact with the ship for 5 hours during a similar expeditions. Then the company turned off the Internet on the accompanying ship, so that correspondents do not report it on social networks. But in general, how According to Pog, no one paid much attention to the incident then.

OceanGate Expeditions founder Rush Stockton talks about his bathyscaphe.

Meanwhile, the bathyscaphe continues to search. This morning Canadian P-3 aircraft with a sonar station found in the area search for underwater noises. But to establish the place where the "knock" comes from, equipment could not. The US Coast Guard reports that if the bathyscaphe is not damaged, then the oxygen in it remains for 24 hours.