Rob McCallum, a co-founder of EYOS Expeditions, was brought on as an adviser to examine some of OceanGate's submersibles, and despite finding clear problems, he found his concerns went on deaf ears.
McCallum says everyone was extremely on-board with operations, describing the scenario as: "Everyone was drinking Kool-Aid and saying how cool they were with a Sony PlayStation." The expert says he immediately brought up his concerns about using a video-game controller to pilot the submarine, explaining that it wasn't designed for anything like this.
"And I said at the time, 'Does Sony know that it's been used for this application? Because, you know, this is not what it was designed for.' And now you have the hand controller talking to a Wi-Fi unit, which is talking to a black box, which is talking to the sub's thrusters," McCallum told the press.
