The maker of the missing Titanic submersible, OceanGate, was the target of complaints in 2018 made by a former employee over the safety of the vessel's hull. According to court documents reviewed by CBS MoneyWatch, OceanGate fired employee David Lochridge in 2018 after he expressed concern ...
RUSH: Yes, you do. The interesting thing is, carbon fiber is three times better than titanium on strength-to-buoyancy. So when you're underwater, it's strength-to-buoyancy, not strength-to-weight. And so, because we make it out of carbon fiber, all of a sudden my pressure vessel...
Authorities are investigating the cause of the vessel's collapse, which has called into question the regulations surrounding such deep-sea voyages. A former employee of OceanGate, David Lochridge, had raised concerns over "safety and quality control issues regarding the Titan to OceanGate execu...
Titanic submersible: documents reveal multiple concerns raised over safety of vessel Guardian, 21 June 2023 = 6/20 20:25 PDT It is now confirmed that the fifth passenger aboard Titan is Paul-Henri Nargeole. OceanGate has confirmed that its CEO Stockton Rush is aboard and the pilot for Titan...
* Titan's carbon-fiber walls are 5 inches (13 cm) thick, and the vessel is capped at each end with titanium domes, according to David Pogue, a CBS News journalist who traveled on Titan last year. He had to sign a liability waiver describing the vessel as "e...
Making money was the driving force of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible and it involved "very little in the way of science", OceanGate's former operations director has said. The vessel imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic in June last year, killing al...
“We wanted to give humanity greater access to the ocean, specifically the deep ocean,” Sohnlein said. Sohnlein testified that the company zeroed in on the use of carbon fiber for the doomed vessel because the company wanted a lightweight, less costly submersible...
Dubbed the Titan, OceanGate's deep sea vessel, was said to be the only five-person submersible in the world with the capabilities to reach the Titanic's depth, nearly 2 and a half miles beneath the ocean's surface, CBS "Sunday Mornings" correspondent David Poguereportedlast year. ...
Dubbed the Titan, OceanGate's deep sea vessel, was said to be the only five-person submersible in the world with the capabilities to reach the Titanic's depth, nearly 2 and a half miles beneath the ocean's surface, CBS "Sunday Mornings" correspondent David Poguereportedlast year. ...
Dubbed the Titan, OceanGate's deep sea vessel, was said to be the only five-person submersible in the world with the capabilities to reach the Titanic's depth, nearly 2 and a half miles beneath the ocean's surface, CBS "Sunday Mornings" correspondent David Poguereportedlast year...