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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...

Adventurer at all, but i don't get scared as easily as a lot of people. and i don't get claustrophobia very often, which i think was lucky, being in that submersible for more than ten hours. >> yeah, i can tell you don't scare easily, certainly. a lot's been made in other reports of how there was a kind of low-tech feeling to the construction. it felt a little jury-rigged in there. it was kind of a video game controller. things, products from off the shelf used to construct it. did you see some of that? >> only the video game controller, and stockton was very proud of that. he certainly did no...

The biggest concern was that it wasn't certain fade by an industry group and it hadn't gone through independent testing in front of an independent third party industry specialist, those are not require according to experts tad these dave's. but from the experts i've opponent to, they are an industry standard. tell person .with, will cohen, who heads that submersible, he said there are only ten in the world that can make that dive and there is the only one that isn't certcertified. >> just the fact that the initial way that the pilot steers the sub is using a video game controller. there is a b...

The missing Titanic submersible was run with a Logitech gamepad controller. The Navy uses Xbox controllers to operate photonic masts in submarines.

Seems like they must be stuck. if they're stuck, if one of the rfps can nudge, it can somehow get it unstuck, you would think it should be able to get to the top. because of this so many different ways. odessa do is get rid of some weight. and that's going straight to the top. even if you're trying to get to the top, if you're snagged on something, you won't be able to. there is an oroville that showed up this morning, remote operated vehicle, one of these underwater some drones. there's been a drone looking for it today since this morning, there's another one arriving soon i think. it's not a...