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The missing submersible that offers tours of the Titanic wreckage is piloted by a modified Playstation controller.
The OceanGate submarine vessel is controlled using a wireless Logitech F710 gamepad, CEO Stockton Rush revealed last summer.
The system is advertised as having 'state-of-the-art lighting and sonar navigation systems', despite not having GPS. It is understood to utilise 'internally and externally mounted 4K video and photographic equipment'.
The vessel also uses Elon Musk's Starlink to communicate with a communications and tracking team on its mothership, MV Polar Prince, via short text messages.
The sub is meant to communicate with the main ship - which in 2005 was listed on eBay with a reserve price of $1million - every 15 minutes to inform the team of its location.
But the last message was received while the submersible floated in the Atlantic above the cruise liner wreckage at about 10am EST on Sunday (3pm UK time). Five people are on board.
CBS correspondent David Pogue is seen inside the submersible, which he described as very basic
The journalist holding up a modified Logitech games controller that is said to be used to control the sub
The Titan - which has become lost while diving the wreck of the Titanic - has been described as an 'experimental
