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Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
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It originally was an SSD drive
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"Somewhat disappointingly, the images and videos shared in the report were taken in the vicinity of the ROV shop at the Marine Institute"
There, saved you a long read
Unfortunately it only had older still photos and videos, nothing from the last dive. Looks like they had the camera configured to send the data to the onboard computers and those were smashed into a soild mass, of which, no data was able to be recovered from.
"and you can buy that exact SD card model for the low, low price of $62.99 on Amazon RIGHT. NOW!!!"
That might not be the weirdest, most awkward product placement I ever saw, but close.
EDIT : for those not seeing it, yeah, the article actually mentions that price and has a direct link to Amazon.
tbf, finding your product still working after the implosion is already amazing publicity
The SD card was from inside a titanium cased underwater camera that was mounted outside the hull. It wasn't actually in the implosion, it just survived the shockwave (which was probably 1000s of Gs, so still impressive)
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Tragic? What was tragic about it? It were just some insanely rich doing something insanely stupid: dive in an untested home made tube built from rejected discarded build materials to dive to insane depths to disrupt a protected monument of something which killed thousands.
The kid that was killed didn’t want to be there. He was terrified. He only went because rich daddy insisted & paid for him to come along. That’s tragic.
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There was also a famous ocean explorer on board they were using as a prop for their company. He’d done great work exploring shipwrecks previously and not a billionaire
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I think maybe the point about the Kid is being missed.
Yeah super rich. Yeah didn't want to be there.
But to change things you need people with resources on your side. The young are significantly easier to do this with.
If we demonstrate that we have empathy for all of the vulnerable (as we should) those young ones can see the power of empathy.
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Tragic?
Try "predictable"
Please watch the Netflix documentary if you havent.
The sub was never meant for that depth and they knew it.
They could literally hear the carbon fibers snapping every dive.
They had to retire an entire chassis because it failed at similar depths.
Nahh, the tragedy is rich people think they are better than physics itself.
The tragedy is that more of these rich people don't test that belief against reality.
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This was a reverse tragedy.
There was a tragedy. One billionaire forcing their child to die
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Scientists were already able to recover footage of their final moments on the SD card
So tragic to see someone speak from beyond the grave...
I did not expect that
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Spared no expense...
Tragic?
Yeah we should build a bigger submarine that fits more billionaires. But no kids this time.
There were kids in it...? Christ :(
Yeah. One of the rich guys brought his son. Reported as “university aged” but still.
Over 18, but still young enough to not be predestined to become like the other billionaires I guess.
and he didn't want to go, or I'm mixing things?
His mom refused to go and tried to convince the dad to cancel the trip.
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Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.
Why? It wasn't there submersible, their product wasn't responsible for its destruction and frankly there is very little in the way of public sympathy.
The product is not even rated as waterproof and yet it's survived months at the bottom of the ocean after having survived a destructive implosion.
That's hella marketing.
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There's probably an expensive helium mechanical drive somewhere down there that suddenly found itself to be considerably smaller than it started out.
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That sticker "pressure tested" on the camera housing is not lying
Gotta love that SD technology. Now if only we could build a sub with it.
Just make the next sub out of SD cards, Nokia 3310 phones, piloted with a Logitech controller.
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Scott Manley has a one hour video going over all of this, including the ridiculous redaction of ~~James Cameron~~ providing expert testimony by first saying he directed The Abyss
lol he first said he directed Titanic.
The actual interview: https://media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/17/2003800984/-1/-1/0/CG-115_INTERVIEW-DEEP-SEA-EXPLORER_REDACTED.PDF
You don’t have to get very far to realize who it is.
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I recommend this great video from Scott Manley on the NTSB report :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMUjCZ7MMWQ
He also has a previous video that is more speculative before the report but very interesting anyway.
That even a depth rated camera is broken can easily explained with the point that the implosion produced shock waves with pressure spikes easily exceeding the official ratings of the camera.
Spoiler: Nothing about the big boom or that trip was on it (as designed, lol), but it's cool that it survived.
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