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...
而“泰坦尼克”号的船长事发前一再被警告船前有冰山,但他还是在一个没有月光的夜晚全速驶入那片海域,结果导致许多人丧生。 Titanic director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeat...
Lochridge joined the company in the mid-2010s as a veteran engineer and submersible pilot and said he quickly came to feel he was being used to lend the company scientific credibility. He said he felt the company was selling him as part of the project "for people to come up and pay mon...
• June 19: The search begins for the missing submersible. “The collective‘we’ didn’t remember the lesson of Titanic.…Because the arrogance and the hubris that sent that ship to its doom is exactly the same thing that sent those people in that sub to their fate.” —James Cameron...
they said. That and the submersible's unconventional designsubjected the Titan to scrutinyin the undersea exploration community.The ongoing Marine Board of Investigation is the highest level of marine casualty investigation conducted by the Coast Guard. When the hearing concludes, recommendations will be...
However, he testified that he was asked to pilot the submersible and replied: “I’m not getting in it.” He said he felt rushed to start operations during his time with the company. When asked if there was pressure to get the Titan into the water, he responded: ...
“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 ...
The deadly implosion of the Titan submersible raises questions about whether the vessel exploring the Titanic wreckage was destined for its own disaster because of its unconventional design and its creator’s refusal to submit to safety checks that are s
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...
Four days of hearings on the 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible which killed all five people on board concluded this week with more damning testimony recounting multiple safety incidents over the years.