Not surprising, the card was filled with… UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!
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What do you mean “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
Well, that kid didn’t ask to be there, so that’s pretty tragic.
Define “tragic”
I’d say “expected” might be a more fitting word.
They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.
Or old school Nokias…
I’d go for a mix of 50% sd cards and 50% controllers. Maybe 40/60, science is not decided yet.
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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I would feel bad if we had to kill a very young adult and respectable frenchman for every three asshole-rich fat cats. Maybe I’m wrong about the frenchman, but I don’t recall him being rich, just the ‘expert’ on the dive. I think tragic still applies for them.
Well, he was probably “rich” in that he has acquired his own wealth, but I don’t think that’s what you mean.
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.
Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.
Nah, more like great promo material for the camera that survived the whole mess mostly intact.
Too bad they dropped the ball by not having the decryption keys for the actual video on the card.
New form of key compression unlocked!
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.
Yeah I know but marketing is marketing. It doesn’t really have to make any sense.
If the Xbox controller had survived I’m sure Microsoft would have made big of that even though it’s basically irrelevant to the product.
They didn’t even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone
Why not? If anything, it shows how durable their product is. If it were my company, I would market the shit out of this.
sd is so sturdy it can withstand pressures of depts at 12000ft.
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.
I think it’s more like what are the chances it fails while we’re in it? Fuck it.
Considering that is basically the only time it could fail, I would say the chances were pretty high.
The main issue with the Titan wasn’t as much the depth as it was cyclic loading
No, it was entirely the depth. They tested it in the lab and saw many failures but never changed the design.
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.
Trying to do extreme engineering on the cheap.
it was DIY from start o finish on the craft. as opposed to spending 5-10mil on a spherical TITATANIUM sub. instead he used carbon fiber which was defective airplane parts.
How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?
Well it’s a
spaceshipairplane, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one."
This was a reverse tragedy.
There was a tragedy. One billionaire forcing their child to die
Gotta love that SD technology. Now if only we could build a sub with it.
shouldve made the sub out of layers of sd cards.
Just make the next sub out of SD cards, Nokia 3310 phones, piloted with a Logitech controller.
Fuck it. Mad Katz w/ turbo
I would never have gone in a submarine called the Tragic anything.
stockton is also the city in california its named after his family i believe. like the city, its a "shthole.
I want to call mine “the five” but in spanish
Be funnier for a surface boat
let’s be honest the biggest boat i’ll ever have is a 7 foot tin dinghy
But you’ll have a submarine?
my family uses “[being] on the submarine” as a euphemism for answering the phone on the toilet so i’m getting a little giggle out of this question
In this context Tragic was a title earned for their efforts. It’s like King Charles knighted the Titan, but since it was neither a Sir or Dame, it joined Titanic with the pronoun Tragic
I always thought allowing someone called Ethelred the Unready to rule England was a clear unforced error.
“Comedic” is a better title for this than “Tragic”.
Taking bets on the last data recorded on it. I’m going with “0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0…”
Encrypted. Was a whole thing to recover the keys from a damaged board, only to find old videos and photos from previous dives.
Apparently they were streaming the video to the inside of the sub, so it wasn’t saved to that card.
Scott Manley has a one hour video going over all of this, including the ridiculous redaction of
James Cameronproviding expert testimony by first saying he directed The AbyssJames 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)
He’s definitely an expert, I just thought it was funny they redacted his name like we wouldn’t know who he was.
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.
“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
It originally was an SSD drive
The “D” in “SSD” is drive.
ATM machine. When people ask what that is being a smart ass, I say it’s their mom.
lol out loud
BRB, typing my PIN number into the ATM machine to get some cash for SCUBA apparatus.
These compression methods are getting out of hand
Especially considering this was losless - strictly speaking only the compression of the SSD was… 😈
Certainly interesting to have an algorithm that is extremely lossy (near totally) for the majority of inputs but lossless for some weird edge cases.
Spared no expense…
Kinda seems like it was the right call if it survived an implosion
Yeah, but 512 GB? That’s gotta be overwriting some data. The amount of data generated by sensors is massive.
What sensors do you think this was recording data from?
Depth, pressure, location, etc.
It was in a camera.
And what do you think that polling rate was to fill up a 512 GB SD card? It’s all speculation but this isn’t a super collider, we shouldn’t need sub second polling of a vehicle that can only move 5.6 km/h.
And even if you sampled at 10 sps, and did 50 sensors at 10b, you would still only be looking 5000bps or 5.8x10-7 GBps, meaning that it would take roughly 26 years to fill up a 512GB SD card.
While I don’t know for how long the sub had been submerged, I doubt it was close to a quarter of a century. If that was the case, I believe that we would have been talking about that as well. Even if it was 500 sensors, at 100sps at 12b we’d be looking at 79days.
IMHO there’s only a few things a 512GB SD card would be used for. And I hope it was music, because I don’t think we should watch the final moments of these people’s lives.
Dude the article is right there
But I don’t wanna.
It’s not going to have location data. GPS doesn’t work under even very shallow water.
Nobody said GPS (except for you). Location data does not mean GPS.
Ok, so tell me how you are going to get a location fix underwater, in the dark, with no landmarks to orient yourself, in constantly shifting currents?
Even the Navy’s most advanced nuclear submarines have to surface to get their location. This thing was a carbon fiber tube with an Xbox controller and an idiot designer.
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