News broke earlier this week that an OceanGate Expedition submarine exploring the Titanic went missing.

The crew is still trapped somewhere at the bottom of the ocean and rescue crews are desperately looking for them.

They are hopeful banging sounds heard underwater are the crew trying to communicate.

One wonders where things went wrong. Honestly a machine that can descend that far into the depths carrying a small crew is a modern marvel — or is it.

It turns out the guy that built the tourist submersible was a "dare-devil inventor" who didn't exactly follow industry standards or submit to regulatory oversight from one of the many seaworthy classification organizations like The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), DNV/GL, or Lloyd's Register in his rush to build a submarine for tourists.

In a blogpost, he said,

"Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation."

One not-so-clever design feature was that the steering of the submersible used a $30 2010 Logitech F710 gamepad.

Now I know what you're thinking.

I don't have any experience driving a submarine 13,000 feet underwater, so I don't have any room to talk about whether this was a good idea or not.

And you're right, but I've crashed into enough walls in Mario Kart to know I wouldn't want to be using a video game controller to steer a vehicle in a real-world, life-or-death scenario.

To be fair, there's a 19-year old among the crew that probably could have completed the game successfully, but I don't think he was driving.

Or maybe he was.

The inventor also gave an interview where he admitted that he didn't want to hire any experienced people like 50-year-old white guys retired from the Navy. He wanted his team to be young and inspirational.

Who knows what might have gone wrong with those kind of company policies?

At this point, I'm just praying the little guy on the cloud pulls the crew up safely, and they get another race before it‘s game over.