Not surprising, the card was filled with… UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!
🫵🫅
They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.
I’d go for a mix of 50% sd cards and 50% controllers. Maybe 40/60, science is not decided yet.
Or old school Nokias…
I still have one of those. I use it to split bricks when I’m putting up a wall.
Bricks? I used mine to process diamonds. Cracked them up real good. It still had its shine, too.
It originally was an SSD drive
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.
The “D” in “SSD” is drive.
ATM machine. When people ask what that is being a smart ass, I say it’s their mom.
BRB, typing my PIN number into the ATM machine to get some cash for SCUBA apparatus.
lol out loud
Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.
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.
It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.
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.
Edit: Apparently they’ve recover the files.
New form of key compression unlocked!
sd is so sturdy it can withstand pressures of depts at 12000ft.
“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
What do you mean “tragic”?
Well, that kid didn’t ask to be there, so that’s pretty 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
Define “tragic”
I’d say “expected” might be a more fitting word.
“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)
funny how you downplay it all the way till the end, and anything surviving 1000s of Gs is incredibly impressive.
Well, it’s an order of magnitude less force than the “server room” experienced, considering the whole rack of computers was compressed into a solid mass.
SanDisk SD cards are actually rated for up to 500Gs, and with how light the SD card is, it can survive these indirect impacts more easily. “1000s of Gs” is just a completely random estimate considering how some of the other heavier internal camera parts were damaged (a circuit board connector sheared off).
Meh, I could probably do it.
Survive 1000s of Gs?
Good luck.
50 50
I will never buy another Sandisk product. They are as unreliable as cheap microcenter flash drives now. I’ve been burned too many times, and couple of those time were literal burns too!
“I don’t travel on potentially doomed subs without these 10 things from amazon, you won’t believe how cheap number 1 is!!”
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.
I would never have gone in a submarine called the Tragic anything.
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”.
stockton is also the city in california its named after his family i believe. like the city, its a "shthole.
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.
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.
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.
It was in a camera.
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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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…
I did not expect that
RIP. Tragic.
Fuck off
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.
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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.
Tragic?
Yeah we should build a bigger submarine that fits more billionaires. But no kids this time.
There were kids in it…? Christ :(
Yeah. One of the rich guys brought his son. Reported as “university aged” but still.
Over 18, but still young enough to not be predestined to become like the other billionaires I guess.
and he didn’t want to go, or I’m mixing things?
Over 18, but he was the only one that doesn’t want to be there. He was scared but didn’t want to disappoint his father. That poor kid and his mother. Can’t imagine how she must feel. This is why being a good parent takes more than resources. I would never want a relationship with my kids where they felt pressured into doing something just to make me happy. I’d hope I’d make different decisions as a father if I was in that situation. My son openly tells me about his hesitant feelings towards an objectively dangerous trip, I’m not making him go at the very least. And I’m probably not going myself because me and my son can do something else together.
Quote from his mother on giving up her seat to her son - BBC News:
“Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,” she said.
No, the “kid” was 19
One was a kid, one was a person who spent a chunk of her life saving for a ticket.
Most of them were just regular people.
There were no women on the submersible.
That may have been a passenger on a different dive then.
