According to Ross, six days before the Titan submarine imploded, the sub’s pilot and the company’s cofounder, Stockton Rush, crashed the vessel into a launch mechanism bulkhead while the vessel was attempting to resurface from dive 87. […] but Ross said he did not know if an inspection of the sub was carried out afterward.
How does every new detail about the excursion keep getting worse? Next week I’m going to learn they used Saran wrap for the windows.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Jesus Christ that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. The submarine in the game Iron Lung was safer to drive than this thing. Manual positional updates onto a spreadsheet and then literally drawn by hand on a map? I wouldn’t even trust this thing in a damn swimming pool.
Korkki@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I really do wonder why they ended up in this. It can’ be that hard to make even a hacky DIY system to do it automatically. The navigation system just had to have some digital or even analog output, then it would be just the problem of interpreting the signal with some script and writing it into a file.
superkret@feddit.org 5 days ago
To write a script, you need someone who can write scripts.
If all you have is someone who can write VLOOKUPs in Excel, and the CEO is too cheap to hire someone, then that’s what you use.
0x0@programming.dev 5 days ago
All-manager team, no devs?
T156@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I like how the company didn’t consider using standard software to do it, and then switch to the in-house system that they made later, instead of just having it done by hand instead.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There are better ways to do that even in Excel!
doctortran@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Right? I work with plenty of users in non-technical roles who have at best rudimentary Excel skills, and even they could figure out a better way to manage this. The whole thing with Excel is to make basic data work accessible even to a rube, and let them do an incredible amount of things otherwise outside their skillet.
Using Excel like this is like giving someone a pressure cooker and they only use it to boil water.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
What’s worse is that half the coordinates probably ended up as dates…
invno1@lemmy.one 4 days ago
Or comma separated values…F, that,
CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Man if it wasn’t for that kid that was probably dragged into this, I’d be fucking rolling rn. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not see the sea of red flags???