CBS Story About the Missing Titanic Submarine Goes Viral After Host David Pogue Calls Out 'Jerry-Rigged' Design
justjared.comA six-month old CBS story about the missing OceanGate submarine is going viral after host David Pogue raised concerns about the vessel’s safety.
On Sunday (June 18), the submarine vanished off the coast of Canada. At the time it was carrying five passengers: British billionaire Hamish Harding, British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and chief executive of OceanGate Stockton Rush. David visited OceanGate operations and was submerged in the $1 million submersible last year. Keep reading to find out more… David was first given a tour of the submarine.
He remarked on its “improvised design”, which included lighting from Camping World and an unofficial Playstation controller that was used to drive the submersible. “It seems like this submersible has some elements of MacGyvery jerry-rigged-ness.
You are putting construction pipes as ballast,” he said to Stockton during an interview. “I don’t know if I would use that description,” Stockton replied.
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