From what I can tell the lawsuit (which is against Ocean Gate, not Logitech) is really just calling out the controller as another example of willfully negligent behaviour.
You’re certainly correct that the actual cause of the failure was the carbon fibre hull. Just a terrible idea on so many levels. Carbon fibre, by its nature, is good under tension, not compression. It was never going to function well as a pressure vessel underwater.
There were a litany of terrible decisions made by Ocean Gate, such as not tethering the sub, because it was cheaper to launch it from a towed raft, but none of those bad decisions ultimately mattered once that pressure vessel failed. Those people were dead so fast that, to quote Scott Manley, “You go from being biology to being physics.”
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That doesn’t explain why they used the wireless version of that Logitech instead of wired to control the thing they were literally inside.
Greg@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
To be fair, they’re under water and sharks have been known to chew through electrical cables
Tricky@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I suspect the wired cabling would be to control components inside the sub, not outside. And I say that only because it’s unlikely that wireless signals would penetrate the sub walls.
Greg@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yes but with this sub the water was on the inside too
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 months ago
Too dense to pick up on the obvious sarcasm, I see.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Electrical cables inside submarines?
That’s hardcore.
gedhrel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Have you seen pictures of the sub? What makes you think the wiring was all hidden?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
The same reason you use the wireless version of any controller.
If you run into issues you can simply plug in any wireless controller.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
they were building for billionaire pleasure trips, they’d HAVE to go with the no-wires aesthetic.