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Everyone istalking about the missing Titanic touringsubmersible.
And if you somehow don’t know what I’m talking about, a Titanic touring vessel called the Titan has gone missing on a dive down to the ship.
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Five people were on board, and somepaid$250,000 for the chance to see theTitanic.
And now the focus is on this thing: the Titan.
Tours of the submersible are going viral.
There’s this one narrated by the CEO and founder of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, who is currently on the missing vessel.
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In this tour, we see the singular window.
Right near the one and only window, there’s a black box that opens in case you need to “relieve” yourself. Yes, that’s the bathroom.
There’s apparently a “privacy divider” that can go up if you need to “go.”
There are two computers, and a screen that show what’s happening outside of the vessel.
Here’s the screen:
A simple gaming remote controls the vessel.
“It’s all run with this game controller and these touch screens. If you want to go forward you press forward, if you want to go back you go back, turn right, turn left, go down, go up.”
“It’s meant for a 16-year-old to throw around, and we keep a couple of spares on board just in case,” he said.
It’s extremely simple.
It ’s wireless . ( Lower right.)pic.twitter.com/2XKCQcCZni
It’s extremely bare bones.
There’s another tour of the Titan from earlier this year with CBS correspondent, David Pogue.
“This is not your grandfather’s submersible,” Stockton Rush says from inside the tiny space.
He shows off the ONE button in the entire vessel.
Yes, this is the only button.
“It should be like an elevator, it shouldn’t take a lot of skill,” he says.
Stockton also shows off the light which he says is from a camper store.
As you can see, it’s EXTREMELY simple.
Lastly, we have this tour of the Titan from the BBC.
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In this video, Stockton Rush turns on the vessel by pressing that ONE singular button.
He again shows off his remote control, which he compares to a Playstation remote.
I’d also like to point out that it’s a shoe-free vessel.
So, yes, that’s what the inside looks like.
Oh, I also almost forgot to mention it’sthe sizeof a minivan.
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