Like Mr Harding, Mr Nargeolet had also been a member of The Explorers Club, which described him as "one of the foremost experts on submersible expeditions to the Titanic". The club's president, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, added: "They were both drawn to explore, like so many...
reducing the risk of getting stranded on the ocean floor. while carbon fiber has been used in everything from cars to rockets, no one had ever dived in a deep-water carbon-fiber submersible. rush wanted to be the first. in 2013, oceangate struck up a partnership with the university of ...
Debris from the OceanGate Expeditions Titan submersible was found Yesterday.As feared, all five of those on board perished.There has been a splash of ethics-related matters in the wake of the disaster: 1.Former US President Barack Obama, once again proving the hoary “stopped clock” metaphor’...
To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey.
it's a little bigger than you would think. I like to say this is not your grandfather's submersible. (LAUGH) Most of the deep-diving subs were made with a purpose. They wanted to collect a lot of stuff, it was a science tool, and the person in it was sort of the afterthough...