says adam wright, an engineer who had worked on explorer steve fossett’s 2005 carbon-fiber sub, which was shelved after fossett died in a plane crash. and that was for a submersible that would only be used for a single mission. oceangate was planning to use its submersible repeatedly—up...
Titanic: Railings on ship's iconic bow have broken off and fallen to sea floor Gold watch recovered from body of richest man on the Titanic sells for £1.2m Related Topics: Titanic Titanic submersible "Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families... I offer my deepest condo...
“OceanGate bears full responsibility for the design, fabrication, testing, inspection, operation, maintenance, catastrophic failure of the Titan submersible and the deaths of all five people on board.” It wasn’t supposed to be this way. In the beginning, OceanGate’s mission had seemed so ...
OceanGate co-founderStockton Rushwas among the five people who died when the submersible imploded in June 2023. The Coast Guard opened a public hearing earlier this month that is part of a high level investigation into the cause of the implosion. Some of the testimony has focused on the trou...
The operation began as a rescue mission, he said, but that soon changed. “Shortly after arriving on the sea floor we discovered the debris of the Titan submersible. Sadly, a rescue had turned into a recovery.” Article content Article content U.S. Coast Guard officials have ...
Within hours, Jesse was caught up in the desperate search for the missing Titan submersible, which became a global news story. The vessel disappeared on June 18 while visiting the wreck of the Titanic 3,800 metres (12,500ft) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
RUSH: So the view port is seven-inch-thick plexiglass, acrylic, and that's another thing where I broke the rules. A lot of the submersible industry is run by Pressure Vessels for Human [Occupancy] standards, which acts like a standards body, but it's not a standards body; it's ...
More about the submersible and its passengers Titan implosion hearing paints a picture of reckless greed and explorer passion Passenger on a previous Titan sub dive says his mission was aborted due to apparent malfunction Titan submersible’s sci...
A submersible can do everything a research ship can, Lorenz said, like visit specified locations in Kraken Mare, measure the currents and waves, and see the shoreline. "But it opens up the third dimension. There may, for example, be layering in Titan's seas, much like in some of Earth...
Titan submersible experienced multiple issues over years Hagen said “there was an incident” in 2021, just days before a dive he participated in, in which as the Titan was being pulled onto the ramp, rocking back and forth, the crane operator let it go abruptly and the submersible slammed ...