{"id":242934,"date":"2023-12-04T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=242934"},"modified":"2023-12-04T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:21:14","slug":"missing-titanic-submarine-is-controlled-by-knock-off-ps4-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/missing-titanic-submarine-is-controlled-by-knock-off-ps4-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Titanic submarine ‘is controlled by knock-off PS4 controller’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    The race to save passengers onboard a missing Titanic exploration sub is on.<\/p>\n

    The 'Titan', a submersible built by the company OceanGate Expeditions, was designed to take paying passengers more than two miles underwater to visit the wreck of the Titanic.<\/p>\n

    But it's now been almost two days since anyone last heard from the 'experimental' ship, sparking a huge underwater rescue mission to try and save them.<\/p>\n

    READ MORE: Titanic sub search live as rescuers race against time with 50 hours of air left<\/b><\/p>\n

    While nobody yet knows what's gone wrong on the ship, the technology and hardware it was fitted with could give us some clues about what's happened\u2014and whether there's any chance of the five passengers making it back alive.<\/p>\n

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    While a submarine has enough power to independently leave a port and return using its own power reserves, OceanGate's Titan is a submersible. <\/p>\n

    This means submersibles are much more basic from the get-go, and require an extra support craft to both descend into the water and come back up again.<\/p>\n

    But what makes the Titan even more tricky to pilot is that it's a completely 'experimental' vessel. Passengers who pay $250,000 to join an expedition must sign a waiver acknowledging they're about to travel miles under the sea in something 'which has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death.<\/p>\n

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