Missing Titanic Sub Used A $30 Logitech Game Controller For Steering

Submersible Missing Near Titanic Used A $30 Logitech Game Controller For Steering

On Sunday, news broke about an OceanGate Expeditions tourist subermisble headed for the wreck of the Titanic that went missing with five people aboard.

Details are emerging about the sub’s questionable design that did not meet regulations, including steering apparently handled by a $30 Logitech F710 wireless PC game controller from 2010.

The five-person crew disappeared while on an expedition to explore the Titanic shipwreck site after losing contact with the Polar Prince research ship, about 1 hour and 45 minutes after their dive began.

 

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A CBS Sunday Morning segment broadcast from November 2022 shows a reporter visiting the Titan, which he later boarded for an expedition to the Titanic.

In the segment, OceanGate founder and CEO, Stockton Rush gives the reporter a tour of the sub. He hold up a Logitech F710 Wireless controller and says, “We run the whole thing with this game controller.”

‘The Logitech F710 controller, introduced in 2010, is a wireless dual-thumbstick gamepad for PCs that uses 2.4 GHz communications to a USB receiver. While its chunky design appears outdated by today’s standards, it has been in continuous production for 13 years, and it usually sells for about $29.99 on Amazon.’

The exact cause of the submarine’s disappearance is currently unknown, but I don’t know if I would be getting on anything that’s being controlled with a $30 game controller.