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Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
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It originally was an SSD drive
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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"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
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.
"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.
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)
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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.
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There was also a famous ocean explorer on board they were using as a prop for their company. He’d done great work exploring shipwrecks previously and not a billionaire
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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.
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Scientists were already able to recover footage of their final moments on the SD card
So tragic to see someone speak from beyond the grave...
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Spared no expense...
Not surprising, the card was filled with... UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!
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Tragic?
Yeah we should build a bigger submarine that fits more billionaires. But no kids this time.
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Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.
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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.
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That sticker "pressure tested" on the camera housing is not lying
There's probably an expensive helium mechanical drive somewhere down there that suddenly found itself to be considerably smaller than it started out.
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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
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