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A thrill-seeker who intended to join billionaire Hamish Harding on the missing Titanic sub pulled out of the dive because he thought OceanGate was 'cutting too many corners', it has emerged.

Chris Brown, 61, had paid the deposit to go on the doomed voyage, but says he changed his mind after becoming concerned by the quality of technology and materials used in the vessel.

Among his concerns were OceanGate's use of 'old scaffolding poles' for the ballast and the fact that its controls were 'based on computer game-style controllers'.

He said that despite being 'one of the first people to sign up for this trip', he ultimately decided the 'risks were too high'.

He learned OceanGate had 'missed key targets' when depth-testing the submersible.

The multi-millionaire digital marketing tycoon found it concerning that the vessel was controlled by a modified Playstation controller.

> A thrill-seeker who intended to join billionaire Hamish Harding on the missing Titanic sub pulled out of the dive because he thought OceanGate was 'cutting too many corners', it has emerged. > Chris Brown, 61, had paid the deposit to go on the doomed voyage, but says he changed his mind after becoming concerned by the quality of technology and materials used in the vessel. > Among his concerns were OceanGate's use of 'old scaffolding poles' for the ballast and the fact that its controls were 'based on computer game-style controllers'. > He said that despite being 'one of the first people to sign up for this trip', he ultimately decided the 'risks were too high'. > He learned OceanGate had 'missed key targets' when depth-testing the submersible. > The multi-millionaire digital marketing tycoon found it concerning that the vessel was controlled by a modified Playstation controller.

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Lol, i read this that to dislodge the ballast - passengers have to all move to one side and 'tip' the submersible so the 'concrete ballast fall off' and the surface ship communicates to it in order to guide it via text message - nor is it able to actually power itself up or down - it has tiny side thrusters to turn sideways but rises or falls while at the mercy of the ocean currents. The whole fcking thing sounds like it was built in a shed./

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Where did you see this info at? I would love to share it with normies but don't want to spread disinfo if its not accurqte.

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It was in some dumb uk online rag article iirc (daily mail/ uk mirror ??), quoting the reporter guy who went on it last year and got lost for a couple of hours - he was giving a run down on how it was made from home hardware and gaming parts and all the basic bitch safety of it/ lol. Um - i've tried finding the exact article from yesterday but i cant seem to find it atm .