'Absolutely idiotic': An Excel spreadsheet was used for tragic OceanGate Titan submersible's navigation
During a recent US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation hearing, Wilby revealed that OceanGate relied on an Excel spreadsheet to map the submersible’s navigation. Furthermore, the data was manually entered by hand into the Excel spreadsheet.
A contractor says OceanGate tracked the Titan submersible using an 'idiotic' navigation method that involved pen, paper, and Excel
"The whole system was absolutely idiotic," Antonella Wilby, a former OceanGate contractor, testified at a Friday hearing on the Titan submersible.
OceanGate used ‘absolutely idiotic’ hand-typed spreadsheet for Titan sub-navigation, says former contractor
A former OceanGate contractor revealed that the Titan submersible used a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet for navigation, which caused delays and raised safety concerns before its implosion during a Titanic expedition.
OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet
A former OceanGate contractor, Antonella Wilby, testified before a U.S. Coast Guard panel on Friday that the company’s Titan submarine, which imploded last year during a dive to the Titanic’s wreckage, relied on an incredibly convoluted navigation system.
OceanGate’s Titan submarine relied on ‘idiotic’ Excel spreadsheet
A hearing into OceanGate’s Titan sub, which imploded during an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic last year, revealed that its navigation system allegedly relied on team members manually inputting the coordinate data into a spreadsheet in order to track the vessel.
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