The Titan submersible's deadly implosion in the North Atlantic is raising questions not just about the vessel's operator, OceanGate Expeditions, but the deep-sea tourism faces questions.This short video shows the start of deep-sea exploration, ~ 100 years ago....
until one day, she didn’t. now the bottom of the north atlantic is littered with more evidence of human hubris, tiny pieces of a plastic video-game controller nestling among the barnacle-encrusted gold fixtures of the titanic . both vessels were at the cutting edge of technology, both ...
Surely, people in the submersible world thought, Rush would come to his senses. Surely he wouldn’t actually go through with this? Rush ignored the Marine Technology Society’s letter. He ignored the fact that it was signed—at the top—by Don Walsh. Don Walsh! If you know anything about...
Lahey said he believes human-occupied vehicles should be accredited and was concerned Stockton Rush, OceanGate’s founder and CEO, did not look at the submersible objectively and did not look for outside feedback to ensure the craft was safe. Ad Feedback Lahey also said he knew Rush felt th...
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’...
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 ...
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's on Wednesday. Photo by Paul Daly /The Canadian Press Article content HALIFAX–The company behin...
Some believe the Argus Worker XL could have rescued survivors, but the drone was still in the air when the U.S. Coast Guard declared the Titan submersible had imploded.