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Not surprising, the card was filled with... UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!
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They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.
I'd go for a mix of 50% sd cards and 50% controllers. Maybe 40/60, science is not decided yet.
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.
At least two billionaires keep firing rockets into space as a hobby. It's only a matter of time.
But they put other people on those rockets, not themselves.
Appeal to their vanity. Start saying how brave the astronauts are and make them celebrities. Give them all the credit. Don't mention the funders at all.
Next ones go up with a billionaire on board for sure.
This was a reverse tragedy.
There was a tragedy. One billionaire forcing their child to die
Spoiler: Nothing about the big boom or that trip was on it (as designed, lol), but it's cool that it survived.
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.
The marketing is more for the submersible camera that survived, just like it was designed to do, the SD card was just inside the camera and no water even touched it. I don't think the SD card should be getting any credit.
Why not? If anything, it shows how durable their product is. If it were my company, I would market the shit out of this.
It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.
What do you mean "tragic"?
Well, that kid didn't ask to be there, so that's pretty tragic.
A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require "some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements" to be tragic.
To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense
"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
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.
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.
"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.
“I don’t travel on potentially doomed subs without these 10 things from amazon, you won’t believe how cheap number 1 is!!”
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)
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.
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.
Spared no expense...
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
James Cameron is genuinely a world expert on submersibles. He made The Abyss and Titanic because he loves the deep sea
He made Titanic solely as an excuse to go down to the Titanic and film the wreck. He didn't even have an idea for the story when he pitched the movie
Then he became the first person to ever design and dive his own submersible to Chellenger Deep, and only the second ever submersible to reach that depth (after the US Navy's Trieste)
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.
