CBS reporter's experience with the OceanGate submersible last year:

[sir pball]

23. The Navy uses XBox controllers, that's not an issue at all.

Of all the COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) parts they're talking about, the controller is far and away the least of my worries. If the Navy sees fit to use them on the Virginia-class attack submarines, they're perfectly cromulent for a piddling little submersible.

What bugs me is the statement I read from someone who had been onboard saying *everything* is touchscreen, there's nary a physical switch in sight. Submarines get very, very wet inside if the climate control fails, five sweaty bodies in a cold metal tube, and dripping condensation does not play well with fiddly electronics…