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Restaurant inspection reports for Rockdale and Newton counties.

Seem like nasa sophistication. i mean, starts with the xbox video game controller he used to drive the ship. $29 plastic thing. >> we run the whole thing with this game controller. [ laughter ] >> come on! >> he did thrive on using cheap techniques instead of reinventing the wheel, and when i confronted him about this -- >> it seems like this submersible has some elements of macgyver jiri rigness. >> i don't know if i use that description. >> his answer was those are bells and whistles. the part you care about is the pressure vessel. >> the pressure vessel is not macgyvered at all. the thruste...

Not passing a routine prelaunch inspection. >> i was taken aback by some of these features which did not seem like nasa sophistication. i mean, starts with the xbox video game controller he used to drive the ship. $29 plastic thing. >> we run the whole thing with this game controller. [ laughter ] >> come on! >> he did thrive on using cheap techniques instead of reinventing the wheel, and when i confronted him about this -- >> it seems like this submersible has some elements of macgyvered jery-riggedness. >> i don't know if i use that description. >> his answer was those are bells and whistles...

It. it took a few minutes to settle, then he started to use the thrusters to move us around. >> was it freezing cold? >> no, it wasn't that cold because we'd just arrived at the bottom. but we did have different layers of clothes with us because it was very warm at the top when we got into the submersible, and it certainly got colder and colder as we went down. but i don't remember it being really, really cold. >> were there any moments during that whole process for you that i guess took a couple of hours? any moments that felt dicey? any moment that you were nervous? >> no, i was not nervous ...

Out to titanic. this was really a shakedown dive to see how the sub would perform. and we went up there to see how we might film this. we knew we would only be able to put one camera operator insigh the sub with me. we were interested in how we might mount cameras and make things work. in the course of going down in titan, it became clear to us at that time there was a lot that needed to be worked out with the sub. it had just come back from the east coast where it underwent pressure testing. a lot of the systems worked, but a lot of them really didn't. we had issues with thrusters and issues ...