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Was. and we spent most of our time at the bottom of the ocean just groping in the dark, trying to find the titanic, and we did find it in the last 20 minutes we could have stayed down there. so when you get down there, tell me, it gets to pitch black, you don t really know where you re going, how did the thing move around? yes, the sub was very very simple, and i think that s a good thing. everyone has latched on to this idea that it s controlled by a joy stick from a game controller, and i think that s much better than if it had been run by some high-tech, you know, steering system that you had to spend months trying to learn. i was allowed to steer it and move it for a while. there was nothing to it, and the sub is just propelled by two little engines that look like fans you would put on your desk ....
Told, obviously no sitting room, no chairs, they are super close proximity. this is one of the passengers holding on, the pilot at this moment, holding on to the joy stick, which we have put a picture of. because tom, we have been told it pretty much is not a glorified version of one, but a video game joy stick. this is the wireless logictech 7 game pad, toilet up front, no seats inside. these are the four electric thrusters, the on board health monitoring system we have been told about and the back of the vessel is the oxygen tanks and the electronics on board. this is it. i mean, we are all trying to wrap our minds around what this is made of and somewhere in there we are told, according to that news conference, that they have some sort of stash of food supplies and water. ....
Also spoke about the gaming console and other components. once you reach the ground, the ship is sort of piloted by two things that just look like a fan you would have on your desk. very simple and it is controlled by a joy stick from a gaming console so even i was able to steer and navigate the submarine for a while. reporter: according to an oceangate web page no longer available online there is one small toilet in the front of the vessel which, quote, doubles as the best seat in the house. it says when the toilet is being used they put up a privacy curtain and turn the music up loud. the website recommends passengers restrict their diet before and during the dive to reduce the chances of having to use the toilet. mike reiss says he fell asleep during the two 1/2 hour trip down to the titanic. you were bolted in from the outside. 18 bolts in a circle around the hatch. by the way they only fastened 17 ....
Know, thinking it was going to be a pleasure cruise. especially the experts involved, stockton rush, you know, they made it as safe as they could make it. they trusted their own lives to it. but they knew it could end this way. you did a podcast about your trip and you described how the ship is controlled by a joy stick from a gaming console much like an x box controller. tell us about the technology and how it works. yeah. as a lot of people have focused on that as if this is some jerry rigged, you know, crazy little jalopy that s been slapped together. but it s one reassuring things about the submarine is how simple it was. it was pressure resistant tube that drops to the bottom of the ....
Ocean. took two and a half hours to go kind of straight down. i actually fell asleep on the trip down. that s how kind of relaxing and meditative the whole thing is. once you reach the ground, the ship is piloted by two things that look like a fan you would have on your desk. very simple and it is controlled by a joy stick from a gaming console so that even i was able to steer and navigate the submarine for a while. again, these are all to the good. simplicity would be having something overly complicated where you re at the mercy of technology nobody understands. yeah. you also talked on your pod cast about how you had to sign a waiver that warned you at least twice that you could die. i want to show this clip. cbs news reported on this ocean gate submersible and described ....