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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not the use of Excel, which is best-in-class software, it's all the room for error they introduced.

The OceanGate team tried to perform these updates at least every five minutes, but it was a slow, manual process done while communicating with the gamepad-controlled sub via short text messages.

Dumb, but I don't see that having anything to do with the implosion, just a wonky way to navigate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You guys are flying airplanes, just asking? 👀

But I agree that’s far from ideal 😂