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Watching sharks up close is not the same risk (and I have done in Maldives) as going down to an environment where you know that chances of survival are next to nothing if any little mishap happens
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Watching sharks up close is not the same risk (and I have done in Maldives) as going down to an environment where you know that chances of survival are next to nothing if any little mishap happens
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Of course bro, very different. I dont think its necessary but not you of course but many are attacking these people, they werent harming anyone and have left family members grieving. Its tragic esp how they died was very rare.
Btw, hope you enjoyed the sharks. The most I've done is scuba diving.
Going underwater can be scary. Even these guys were in a small vessal not deep but looks scary. You may enjoy this video.
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Warnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show.
In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.
Mr Rush responded that he was "tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation".
The tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.
"I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic," he wrote to the OceanGate boss in March 2018. "In your race to Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'".
In the messages, Mr Rush, who was among five passengers who died when the Titan experienced what officials believe was a "catastrophic implosion" on Sunday, expresses frustration with the criticism of Titan's safety measures.
"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."
Mr McCallum told the BBC that he repeatedly urged the company to seek certification for the Titan before using it for commercial tours. The vessel was never certified or classed.
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In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.
Mr Rush responded that he was "tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation".
The tense exchange ended after OceanGate's lawyers threatened legal action, Mr McCallum said.
"I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic," he wrote to the OceanGate boss in March 2018. "In your race to Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'".
In the messages, Mr Rush, who was among five passengers who died when the Titan experienced what officials believe was a "catastrophic implosion" on Sunday, expresses frustration with the criticism of Titan's safety measures.
"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."
Mr McCallum told the BBC that he repeatedly urged the company to seek certification for the Titan before using it for commercial tours. The vessel was never certified or classed.
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One of my ambitions is to dive in the coral reef in Aus.
Deep ocean is scary but the amazing life and beauty reminds me of the greatness of our Creator.
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I think that's fine for the rich people who have done it all and don't mind taking stupid risks. I just don't think a 19 year old should have been there on an old man's adventure trip.
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His choice
How many 19 year olds in this world can claim they have gone to the depths of the Titanic wreckage?
Besides, I believe he didn’t want to go because he was initially terrified but he wanted to make his Dad happy. Beautiful story of father and son love
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Still none. That 19 year old can't claim anything, he's dead.
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Always used to wonder what is the fascination of going under water with people, until I tried scuba diving myself. Whole different world down there and experience is absolutely worth it in my books, certainly my best and most favourite activity, ended up doing it multiple times. Saw ship wreck ones which was quite a site under water compared to seeing it on TV. So I do get the pull for these unfortunate people who have likely done it all with all the money they got so seeing it live is a big pull. Just surprising how none would atleast question safety of it when it hasn't really been certified or licensed. Mind boggling really to sign up to give up your life away like that
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Suleman Dawood accompanied his father as part of a 'bonding experience' despite having reservations about the trip to view the wreck of the Titanic, according to his aunt.<br><br>Read more: <a href="https://t.co/tDrgpnx8mV">https://t.co/tDrgpnx8mV</a> <a href="https://t.co/NyXPMCKLym">pic.twitter.com/NyXPMCKLym</a></p>— Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1672128330210983937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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This family friend putting a better perspective.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Osman Waheed pays tribute to his close friend Shahzada Dawood and “his love of adventure” after he died onboard the Titan submersible. <br><br>“It was a horrific tragedy, Shahzada meant so much to so many people.”<a href="https://twitter.com/petercardwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@petercardwell</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TalkTV?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TalkTV</a> <a href="https://t.co/Rz0n5JJeMV">pic.twitter.com/Rz0n5JJeMV</a></p>— TalkTV (@TalkTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1672250954710937600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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June 23 (Reuters) - Canadian safety officials on Friday opened an investigation into the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard while diving to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, raising questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions.
A debris field from the submersible Titan was found at the bottom of the North Atlantic on Thursday by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian search vessel, ending an intense five-day international rescue effort.
Fragments of Titan, which lost contact with its surface support ship about one hour and 45 minutes into a two-hour descent on Sunday, littered the seabed about 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic wreck, about 2-1/2 miles (4 km) below the surface, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said.
He told reporters on Thursday the debris was consistent with "a catastrophic implosion of the vehicle," meaning the 22-foot-long vessel ultimately collapsed and was crushed under the immense hydrostatic pressure at that depth.
The five who died included Stockton Rush, founder and chief executive officer of U.S.-based OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the sub and charged $250,000 per person to make the Titanic trip. He was piloting the craft.
The others were British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding, 58; Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, both British citizens; and French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77.
Nargeolet was a leading authority on the Titanic, the British luxury liner that struck an iceberg and sank on its first voyage in April 1912, killing more than 1,500 people aboard.
In a statement on Friday, Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said it was launching a "safety investigation regarding the circumstances" of Titan's operation because its surface support vessel, the Polar Prince, was a Canadian-flagged ship.
A TSB team was dispatched to St. John's, Newfoundland, about 400 miles north of the accident site, to gather information and conduct interviews, the agency said.
Guillermo Söhnlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Rush in 2009, said Rush was "keenly aware" of the dangers of exploring the ocean depths.
"Stockton was one of the most astute risk managers I'd ever met," said Söhnlein, who left the company in 2013, retaining a minority stake. "He was very risk-averse."
QUESTIONS ABOUT RISKS
But others in the close-knit community of submersible operators and experts noted that Stockton and his company opted to forgo certification of Titan's novel design from industry third parties such as the American Bureau of Shipping.
Some have questioned Stockton's choice of carbon fiber to fabricate the critical pressure hull of his craft.
"OceanGate had created its own experimental vehicle with materials avoided by others, decided to bypass the certification process designed to assure safety, and chose to ignore the warnings from many experts within the submersible community," investment manager Ray Dalio, co-founder of the OceanX sea exploration initiative, said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.
British Titanic explorer Dik Barton likewise pointed to issues raised about the design and maintenance of Titan, saying, "there were many red flags flying here."
One would-be Titan passenger, Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom, told Reuters he declined a last-minute chance to join the ill-fated Titan excursion with his son out of safety concerns.
Bloom, a licensed helicopter pilot, said he was particularly worried about Stockton's use of consumer-grade parts on Titan, including a video game joystick to control the vessel, and was "spooked" by the fact that the submersible would be bolted shut from the outside, preventing passengers from getting out on their own in an emergency.
Questions about Titan's safety surfaced in 2018 during a symposium of industry experts and in a lawsuit by OceanGate's former head of marine operations, which was settled later that year.
The disaster marks the first known fatalities in more than 60 years of civilian deep-sea exploration. But OceanGate was free to go its own way because international waters are beyond government regulation, according to industry experts.
The company has not addressed queries about its lack of industry certification or other safety issues.
SOUNDS OF DISASTER
The U.S. Coast Guard's Mauger said it was too early to say when the Titan met its fate. But the position of debris relatively close to the wreck, and the time that elapsed before contact with Titan was lost suggest the disaster occurred near the end of Sunday's descent.
The U.S. Navy monitors that part of the Atlantic for submarine activity, and said an analysis of acoustic data detected "an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion" near the submersible's location when communication with Titan was lost.
The acoustic data was shared immediately with the U.S. Coast Guard command, according to Navy officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. It was decided the acoustic data was not definitive and the search and rescue mission should continue.
Moviemaker James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film "Titanic" that did much to revive global interest in the 1912 sinking, said he learned of the acoustic findings within a day of the submersible disappearing and knew what it meant.
"I sent emails to everybody I know and said we've lost some friends. The sub had imploded," Cameron, who has ventured to the wreck in submersibles, told Reuters.
Scientist and journalist Michael Guillen, who survived an expedition in 2000 that became trapped in the wreck's propeller, said: "We need to stop, pause and ask this question, 'why do you want to go to the Titanic and how do you get there safely?'"
A debris field from the submersible Titan was found at the bottom of the North Atlantic on Thursday by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian search vessel, ending an intense five-day international rescue effort.
Fragments of Titan, which lost contact with its surface support ship about one hour and 45 minutes into a two-hour descent on Sunday, littered the seabed about 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic wreck, about 2-1/2 miles (4 km) below the surface, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said.
He told reporters on Thursday the debris was consistent with "a catastrophic implosion of the vehicle," meaning the 22-foot-long vessel ultimately collapsed and was crushed under the immense hydrostatic pressure at that depth.
The five who died included Stockton Rush, founder and chief executive officer of U.S.-based OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the sub and charged $250,000 per person to make the Titanic trip. He was piloting the craft.
The others were British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding, 58; Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, both British citizens; and French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77.
Nargeolet was a leading authority on the Titanic, the British luxury liner that struck an iceberg and sank on its first voyage in April 1912, killing more than 1,500 people aboard.
In a statement on Friday, Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said it was launching a "safety investigation regarding the circumstances" of Titan's operation because its surface support vessel, the Polar Prince, was a Canadian-flagged ship.
A TSB team was dispatched to St. John's, Newfoundland, about 400 miles north of the accident site, to gather information and conduct interviews, the agency said.
Guillermo Söhnlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Rush in 2009, said Rush was "keenly aware" of the dangers of exploring the ocean depths.
"Stockton was one of the most astute risk managers I'd ever met," said Söhnlein, who left the company in 2013, retaining a minority stake. "He was very risk-averse."
QUESTIONS ABOUT RISKS
But others in the close-knit community of submersible operators and experts noted that Stockton and his company opted to forgo certification of Titan's novel design from industry third parties such as the American Bureau of Shipping.
Some have questioned Stockton's choice of carbon fiber to fabricate the critical pressure hull of his craft.
"OceanGate had created its own experimental vehicle with materials avoided by others, decided to bypass the certification process designed to assure safety, and chose to ignore the warnings from many experts within the submersible community," investment manager Ray Dalio, co-founder of the OceanX sea exploration initiative, said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.
British Titanic explorer Dik Barton likewise pointed to issues raised about the design and maintenance of Titan, saying, "there were many red flags flying here."
One would-be Titan passenger, Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom, told Reuters he declined a last-minute chance to join the ill-fated Titan excursion with his son out of safety concerns.
Bloom, a licensed helicopter pilot, said he was particularly worried about Stockton's use of consumer-grade parts on Titan, including a video game joystick to control the vessel, and was "spooked" by the fact that the submersible would be bolted shut from the outside, preventing passengers from getting out on their own in an emergency.
Questions about Titan's safety surfaced in 2018 during a symposium of industry experts and in a lawsuit by OceanGate's former head of marine operations, which was settled later that year.
The disaster marks the first known fatalities in more than 60 years of civilian deep-sea exploration. But OceanGate was free to go its own way because international waters are beyond government regulation, according to industry experts.
The company has not addressed queries about its lack of industry certification or other safety issues.
SOUNDS OF DISASTER
The U.S. Coast Guard's Mauger said it was too early to say when the Titan met its fate. But the position of debris relatively close to the wreck, and the time that elapsed before contact with Titan was lost suggest the disaster occurred near the end of Sunday's descent.
The U.S. Navy monitors that part of the Atlantic for submarine activity, and said an analysis of acoustic data detected "an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion" near the submersible's location when communication with Titan was lost.
The acoustic data was shared immediately with the U.S. Coast Guard command, according to Navy officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. It was decided the acoustic data was not definitive and the search and rescue mission should continue.
Moviemaker James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film "Titanic" that did much to revive global interest in the 1912 sinking, said he learned of the acoustic findings within a day of the submersible disappearing and knew what it meant.
"I sent emails to everybody I know and said we've lost some friends. The sub had imploded," Cameron, who has ventured to the wreck in submersibles, told Reuters.
Scientist and journalist Michael Guillen, who survived an expedition in 2000 that became trapped in the wreck's propeller, said: "We need to stop, pause and ask this question, 'why do you want to go to the Titanic and how do you get there safely?'"
Sad news of course for the families of those who died. However when something like this makes the top headline across the world - the question I have it, what else is going on that they're trying to hide. Usually it's never good for the public.
It's not a conspiracy theory, we've seen it happen many times before, in fact they're often waiting for something like this to release bad news or do something else.
It's not a conspiracy theory, we've seen it happen many times before, in fact they're often waiting for something like this to release bad news or do something else.
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There are loopholes. OceanGate exploited the loopholes apparently.
These loopholes need to be gone. These vessels need to be safer.
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What I still don't get is why did this Pakistani think it was ok to take his 19 year old son on such a trip regardless of the risks? All the other guys were old and had lived their lives.
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Because he thought the sub was safe duh. Pretty sure thats what the older guys thought as well.
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Only 250 odd people in history, have visited the Titanic wreckage - think of the billionaire bragging rights!
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It was safe based on what?
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Based on the flawless record of OceanGate upto that point. He must have spoken to previous Titan passengers and got glowing reviews of their trip.
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Teenager on sub took Rubik's Cube to break record, mother tells BBC
Teenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, took his Rubik's Cube with him because he wanted to break a world record, his mother has told the BBC.
The 19-year-old applied to the Guinness World Records and his father, Shahzada, who also died, had brought a camera to capture the moment.
Christine Dawood and her daughter were on board the Polar Prince, the sub's support vessel, when word came through that communications with the Titan had been lost.
"I didn't comprehend at that moment what it meant - and then it just went downhill from there," she said.
In her first interview, Mrs Dawood said she had planned to go with her husband to view the wreck of the Titanic, but the trip was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic.
"Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go," she said.
As well as Suleman and his father Shahzada Dawood, three other people died on board: Stockton Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of OceanGate which owned the Titan, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver and renowned explorer.
Speaking of her son, Mrs Dawood said Suleman loved the Rubik's Cube so much that he carried it with him everywhere, dazzling onlookers by solving the complex puzzle in 12 seconds.
"He said, 'I'm going to solve the Rubik's Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic'."
Suleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in the UK. Businessman Shahzada Dawood, who was British, was from one of Pakistan's richest families.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66015851
Teenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, took his Rubik's Cube with him because he wanted to break a world record, his mother has told the BBC.
The 19-year-old applied to the Guinness World Records and his father, Shahzada, who also died, had brought a camera to capture the moment.
Christine Dawood and her daughter were on board the Polar Prince, the sub's support vessel, when word came through that communications with the Titan had been lost.
"I didn't comprehend at that moment what it meant - and then it just went downhill from there," she said.
In her first interview, Mrs Dawood said she had planned to go with her husband to view the wreck of the Titanic, but the trip was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic.
"Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go," she said.
As well as Suleman and his father Shahzada Dawood, three other people died on board: Stockton Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of OceanGate which owned the Titan, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a former French navy diver and renowned explorer.
Speaking of her son, Mrs Dawood said Suleman loved the Rubik's Cube so much that he carried it with him everywhere, dazzling onlookers by solving the complex puzzle in 12 seconds.
"He said, 'I'm going to solve the Rubik's Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic'."
Suleman was a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in the UK. Businessman Shahzada Dawood, who was British, was from one of Pakistan's richest families.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66015851
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The US Coast Guard has said investigators looking into the Titan submersible implosion are "taking all precautions" in case they find bodies on the sea floor.
Captain Jason Neubauer, who is leading the probe, said it was a "priority" to salvage debris after pieces of the vessel were found on Thursday about 487m (1,600ft) from the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic.
The discovery led officials to conclude that Titan had suffered a "catastrophic implosion" which killed the five men on board.
Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, Cpt Neubauer suggested no human remains had been found so far.
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Captain Jason Neubauer, who is leading the probe, said it was a "priority" to salvage debris after pieces of the vessel were found on Thursday about 487m (1,600ft) from the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic.
The discovery led officials to conclude that Titan had suffered a "catastrophic implosion" which killed the five men on board.
Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, Cpt Neubauer suggested no human remains had been found so far.
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The mother of the 19 year old said he really wanted to go while his aunt and the rest of the media are acting as if he was pressurized by his father.
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I can imagine you going on one of these trips
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Maybe if it’s outer space, but the ocean has never really fascinated me. I have nothing but respect for people who have a passion for this stuff and embark on such adventures, but the least you would expect from them is to not take safety lightly.
Nature is not to be played with. It is brutal. Why would you agree to go on something that is not certified and approved is beyond me.
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The aunt - am not sure if she has any business talking about this.
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There is risk with any adventure I guess. Things like this and space travel are too untested and unregulated, boundaries should be pushed but not at the expense of human loss.
I think billionaires with plenty of time on their hands need to find some outlet which is thrilling for them
The Aunt was just looking for some clout.. we all have that mad Aunty
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OTTAWA, June 28 (Reuters) - A Canadian-flagged ship on Wednesday brought ashore debris from the Titan submersible that imploded while on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic earlier this month, killing all five people on board.
Video from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation showed what appeared to be the nose of the submersible and other shattered fragments wrapped in white tarp pulled up by a crane off the Horizon Arctic vessel at the St. John's harbor in Newfoundland on Wednesday morning.
The debris is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic implosion that killed everyone on board - OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush; British billionaire Hamish Harding; Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman; and French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
It was not immediately clear where the debris was headed.
Canadian and U.S. authorities have in the past week announced investigations into the incident, which has raised questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions.
The deep-sea submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions was discovered in pieces on the seabed some 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic by a robotic diving vehicle last week, ending a multinational five-day search for survivors.
"Our team has successfully completed off-shore operations, but is still on mission and will be in the process of demobilization from the Horizon Arctic this morning," Pelagic Research, which operates the robotic vehicle, said in a statement. It declined to comment further, citing confidentiality reasons.
Footage also showed a shattered part of the hull and machinery with dangling wires being taken off the ship at St. John's, where the expedition to the Titanic had set off from.
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Video from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation showed what appeared to be the nose of the submersible and other shattered fragments wrapped in white tarp pulled up by a crane off the Horizon Arctic vessel at the St. John's harbor in Newfoundland on Wednesday morning.
The debris is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic implosion that killed everyone on board - OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush; British billionaire Hamish Harding; Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman; and French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
It was not immediately clear where the debris was headed.
Canadian and U.S. authorities have in the past week announced investigations into the incident, which has raised questions about the unregulated nature of such expeditions.
The deep-sea submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions was discovered in pieces on the seabed some 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic by a robotic diving vehicle last week, ending a multinational five-day search for survivors.
"Our team has successfully completed off-shore operations, but is still on mission and will be in the process of demobilization from the Horizon Arctic this morning," Pelagic Research, which operates the robotic vehicle, said in a statement. It declined to comment further, citing confidentiality reasons.
Footage also showed a shattered part of the hull and machinery with dangling wires being taken off the ship at St. John's, where the expedition to the Titanic had set off from.
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Presumed human remains have been found within the wreckage of the Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard says.
Pieces from the sub, which imploded on a deep dive to the Titanic, were unloaded in St John's, Canada, on Wednesday.
Officials say the sub's landing frame and a rear cover were found among the debris.
US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains, the coast guard said in a statement.
The agency is in the early stages of an investigation into the causes of the disaster. The Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) will transport the evidence to a US port for further analysis and testing.
MBI chair Capt Jason Neubauer said in a statement that there was "still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the Titan and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again".
"I am grateful for the coordinated international and interagency support to recover and preserve this vital evidence at extreme offshore distances and depths," Capt Neubauer said.
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Pieces from the sub, which imploded on a deep dive to the Titanic, were unloaded in St John's, Canada, on Wednesday.
Officials say the sub's landing frame and a rear cover were found among the debris.
US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains, the coast guard said in a statement.
The agency is in the early stages of an investigation into the causes of the disaster. The Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) will transport the evidence to a US port for further analysis and testing.
MBI chair Capt Jason Neubauer said in a statement that there was "still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the Titan and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again".
"I am grateful for the coordinated international and interagency support to recover and preserve this vital evidence at extreme offshore distances and depths," Capt Neubauer said.
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Ohio real estate tycoon plans to take new submersible to Titanic wreck
A real estate tycoon from Dayton, Ohio, wants to visit the wreckage of the Titanic in the depths of the north Atlantic Ocean to prove that the personal submersible industry is safe, announcing his plans less than a year after a similar trip killed five people.
Larry Connor, 74, recently told the Wall Street Journal that he intends to team up with the deep-sea explorer Patrick Lahey to take a submersible to a depth of about 12,467ft (3,800m) to research and explore the Titanic’s remains as well as prove that proper engineering can make it possible to safely visit the wreckage site.
“Ours is not just a trip to the Titanic,” Connor said in a separate interview with the New York Times on Tuesday. “It’s a research mission … to demonstrate to people around the globe that you can build a revolutionary, first-of-its-kind sub and dive it safely and successfully to great depths.”
The submersible reportedly is still being designed, and a specific start date for the expedition had not been immediately announced.
But Connor – whose real estate investment firm runs luxury apartment complexes across the US – is being taken seriously because of his past record of explorations.
He has drawn attention for having previously traveled with Lahey in a submersible to the Mariana Trench. He also garnered news headlines after paying to fly to the International Space Station in 2022.
In June of last year, Connor and Lahey watched as the OceanGate Titan submersible went silent after descending into the deep north Atlantic to view the British passenger liner that was once described as “practically unsinkable” but sank in 1912 and left more than 1,500 people dead.
Investigators ultimately determined that the Titan likely imploded on its descent, killing the five people aboard, including Stockton Rush, the chief executive officer of the company that built the submersible.
OceanGate went out of business after the disaster. Other firms in the private submersible field reported plummeting sales and cancelled trips amid what industry experts have characterized as a chilling effect.
Lahey publicly accused Rush of brushing off his prospective passengers’ concerns about safety and accused him of embarking on a “predatory” mission aimed at convincing influential people that his submersible was secure when it was not, as Business Insider reported.
That all purportedly prompted Connor and Lahey to collaborate on making a better kind of submersible. They intend to call it the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer. The 4000 alludes to the depth in meters that the submersible can plumb.
As Lahey put it to the Wall Street Journal: “[Connor said], you know, what we need to do is build a sub that can dive to [Titanic-level] depths repeatedly and safely and demonstrate to the world that you guys can do that, and that Titan was a contraption.”
Connor added: “I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way.”
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Titanic mission to map wreck in greatest-ever detail
A team of imaging experts, scientists and historians will set sail for the Titanic on Friday to gather the most detailed photographic record ever made of the wreck.
The BBC has had exclusive access to expedition members here in the US city of Providence, Rhode Island, as they make preparations to leave port.
They'll be using state of the art technology to scan every nook and cranny of the famous liner to gain new insights into its sinking.
This will be the first commercial mission to Titanic since last year's OceanGate tragedy. Five men died while trying to visit the lost ship in a novel submersible.
A joint memorial service will be held at sea in the coming days for them and the 1,500 passengers and crew who went down with Titanic in 1912.
The new expedition is being mounted by the US company that has sole salvage rights and which to date has brought up some 5,500 objects from the wreck.
But this latest visit is purely a reconnaissance mission, says RMS Titanic Inc, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Two robotic vehicles will dive to the ocean bottom to capture millions of high-resolution photographs and to make a 3D model of all the debris.
"We want to see the wreck with a clarity and precision that's never before been achieved," explained co-expedition lead David Gallo.
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A team of imaging experts, scientists and historians will set sail for the Titanic on Friday to gather the most detailed photographic record ever made of the wreck.
The BBC has had exclusive access to expedition members here in the US city of Providence, Rhode Island, as they make preparations to leave port.
They'll be using state of the art technology to scan every nook and cranny of the famous liner to gain new insights into its sinking.
This will be the first commercial mission to Titanic since last year's OceanGate tragedy. Five men died while trying to visit the lost ship in a novel submersible.
A joint memorial service will be held at sea in the coming days for them and the 1,500 passengers and crew who went down with Titanic in 1912.
The new expedition is being mounted by the US company that has sole salvage rights and which to date has brought up some 5,500 objects from the wreck.
But this latest visit is purely a reconnaissance mission, says RMS Titanic Inc, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Two robotic vehicles will dive to the ocean bottom to capture millions of high-resolution photographs and to make a 3D model of all the debris.
"We want to see the wreck with a clarity and precision that's never before been achieved," explained co-expedition lead David Gallo.
RMS Titanic shipwreck: Bid to make ultimate photo record
A new expedition aims to document the world's most famous shipwreck in unprecedented detail.
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That’s pretty crazy. Feel bad for her. Another victim in her family attached to this tragedy now.
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Why is the world so crazy about this titanic. Took so many lives already. Leave that thing alone. Really, there is no need.
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Agree.
Never understood the appeal for it. Titanic is one of the many sunk ships. Why risk life to get there?
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Yeah, man. leave it alone.
We don't wanna see the rusted grills of the ship. Not worth it.
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Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope
A witness to the Titan submersible disaster has told BBC News about the fear and false hope felt by those on its support ship.
Rory Golden was on the Oceangate expedition when contact with the sub and its five passengers was lost on a dive to the Titanic in June 2023.
“We had this image in our heads of them being down there, running out of oxygen in the freezing cold, getting terribly frightened and scared,” he said.
But after learning the sub had imploded just hours into the dive, he said it was a comfort to know those onboard hadn’t suffered.
Mr Golden was on the Polar Prince support ship to give presentations about the Titanic when the submersible went missing.
“When the sub was overdue we weren't unduly concerned because communications break down a lot in the ocean,” he explained.
“But when the alarm was finally raised, that's when we realised that there were some serious issues.”
A major search and rescue operation was launched by the US Coast Guard.
A few days in, sounds of banging were detected underwater raising hope that these were coming from the missing sub.
But it's now known that those onboard most likely died instantly after Titan suffered a catastrophic failure as it neared the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic.
“We lived in false hope for four days,” Mr Golden said. “There’s still a lot of questions to be answered.”
Those who perished were British explorer Hamish Harding, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, Stockton Rush, the CEO of Oceangate, and French diver Paul Henri - or PH - Nargeolet.
Rory Golden was a close friend of PH - a veteran deep sea explorer. He is now on the first expedition to the Titanic since the tragedy - an expedition that PH Nargeolet was supposed to be leading.
A plaque is being laid in his honour at the wreck site and a memorial service for all those who died on the sub has been held at sea.
Mr Golden told the BBC he was one of the last people to see PH alive.
“He left the ship in great spirits, in great form and he was happy. He was going somewhere that he wanted to be.”
Rory Golden had also visited the Titanic on the Oceangate sub.
”PH and I had discussed the submersible in the past and I had actually made a dive in it myself the year before,” he said.
“And I'm here - as are many others. The Titan sub had made 15 dives to the Titanic up to that point, so it had worked.
“I was comfortable, I spent 12 hours at the Titanic and it was a whole different experience being in a submersible that I could actually move around quite well in.”
He told the BBC that he didn’t regret his dive at all.
“It wasn't my time,” he said. “You never know when your time is going to come. And that certainly brought that home to all of us.”
The discovery of the wreckage of Titan four days after it went missing confirmed the fate of those onboard.
“We all cried when the remains were found of the sub,” he said.
“A special bond has been formed between all of us who were there on the ship that week. And that's a bond that will always be there.”
Industry experts had raised many serious questions about the safety of the Titan submersible prior to the dive.
Investigations by the US Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard are still ongoing.
They are likely to call for changes to ensure such a tragedy doesn’t happen again.
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A witness to the Titan submersible disaster has told BBC News about the fear and false hope felt by those on its support ship.
Rory Golden was on the Oceangate expedition when contact with the sub and its five passengers was lost on a dive to the Titanic in June 2023.
“We had this image in our heads of them being down there, running out of oxygen in the freezing cold, getting terribly frightened and scared,” he said.
But after learning the sub had imploded just hours into the dive, he said it was a comfort to know those onboard hadn’t suffered.
Mr Golden was on the Polar Prince support ship to give presentations about the Titanic when the submersible went missing.
“When the sub was overdue we weren't unduly concerned because communications break down a lot in the ocean,” he explained.
“But when the alarm was finally raised, that's when we realised that there were some serious issues.”
A major search and rescue operation was launched by the US Coast Guard.
A few days in, sounds of banging were detected underwater raising hope that these were coming from the missing sub.
But it's now known that those onboard most likely died instantly after Titan suffered a catastrophic failure as it neared the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic.
“We lived in false hope for four days,” Mr Golden said. “There’s still a lot of questions to be answered.”
Those who perished were British explorer Hamish Harding, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, Stockton Rush, the CEO of Oceangate, and French diver Paul Henri - or PH - Nargeolet.
Rory Golden was a close friend of PH - a veteran deep sea explorer. He is now on the first expedition to the Titanic since the tragedy - an expedition that PH Nargeolet was supposed to be leading.
A plaque is being laid in his honour at the wreck site and a memorial service for all those who died on the sub has been held at sea.
Mr Golden told the BBC he was one of the last people to see PH alive.
“He left the ship in great spirits, in great form and he was happy. He was going somewhere that he wanted to be.”
Rory Golden had also visited the Titanic on the Oceangate sub.
”PH and I had discussed the submersible in the past and I had actually made a dive in it myself the year before,” he said.
“And I'm here - as are many others. The Titan sub had made 15 dives to the Titanic up to that point, so it had worked.
“I was comfortable, I spent 12 hours at the Titanic and it was a whole different experience being in a submersible that I could actually move around quite well in.”
He told the BBC that he didn’t regret his dive at all.
“It wasn't my time,” he said. “You never know when your time is going to come. And that certainly brought that home to all of us.”
The discovery of the wreckage of Titan four days after it went missing confirmed the fate of those onboard.
“We all cried when the remains were found of the sub,” he said.
“A special bond has been formed between all of us who were there on the ship that week. And that's a bond that will always be there.”
Industry experts had raised many serious questions about the safety of the Titan submersible prior to the dive.
Investigations by the US Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard are still ongoing.
They are likely to call for changes to ensure such a tragedy doesn’t happen again.
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Titan sub crew were aware of imminent death before implosion, lawsuit alleges
The crew onboard the Titan submersible that imploded last year while diving toward the wreck of the Titanic were probably aware during their final moments they were going to die, a newly filed wrongful death lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit was filed by the family of the French explorer who died in the implosion, Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Known as “Mr Titanic”, he had participated in 37 previous dives to the wreckage and was onboard the submersible when it failed catastrophically in June 2023 during a voyage to the Titanic wreckage site.
All five crew members died. The others were the British explorer Hamish Harding, the British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and the CEO of Oceangate, Stockton Rush.
Nargeolet’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this week against OceanGate, which manufactured the submersible and ran the voyage and has since ceased operations, according to its website.
The lawsuit accuses OceanGate and Rush of negligence and alleges that many of the particulars about the vessel’s flaws and shortcomings were purposely concealed from Nargeolet.
“The catastrophic implosion that claimed Nargeolet’s life was due directly to the persistent carelessness, recklessness and negligence” of OceanGate, Rush and other defendants, the lawsuit states, seeking at least $50m.
It also alleges that it is likely that they would have known the submersible was about to implode.
“While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan’s crew would have realized exactly what was happening,” the lawsuit states.
“The vaunted ‘acoustic safety system’ would have alerted the crew that the carbon-fiber hull was cracking under extreme pressure – prompting the pilot to release weight and attempt to abort,” it alleges.
“Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying.”
As the safety mechanism to drop the weight in response to the hull cracking did not work, the lawsuit alleges that the crew “may well have heard the carbon fiber’s crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan’s hull.
“By experts’ reckoning, they would have continued to descend, in full knowledge of the vessel’s irreversible failures, experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the Titan ultimately imploding.”
A spokesperson for OceanGate declined to comment to the Associated Press.
Last week, Rory Golden, who was onboard the support ship for the submersible when the disaster occurred, spoke out about the fear and atmosphere of false hope during the doomed rescue effort.
“We had this image in our heads of them being down there, running out of oxygen in the freezing cold, getting terribly frightened and scared,” Golden, who was a close friend of Nargeolet, told BBC News.
After the disaster the US Coast Guard opened a Marine Board of Investigation into the incident to determine its cause. A public hearing is scheduled for September.
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The crew onboard the Titan submersible that imploded last year while diving toward the wreck of the Titanic were probably aware during their final moments they were going to die, a newly filed wrongful death lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit was filed by the family of the French explorer who died in the implosion, Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Known as “Mr Titanic”, he had participated in 37 previous dives to the wreckage and was onboard the submersible when it failed catastrophically in June 2023 during a voyage to the Titanic wreckage site.
All five crew members died. The others were the British explorer Hamish Harding, the British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and the CEO of Oceangate, Stockton Rush.
Nargeolet’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this week against OceanGate, which manufactured the submersible and ran the voyage and has since ceased operations, according to its website.
The lawsuit accuses OceanGate and Rush of negligence and alleges that many of the particulars about the vessel’s flaws and shortcomings were purposely concealed from Nargeolet.
“The catastrophic implosion that claimed Nargeolet’s life was due directly to the persistent carelessness, recklessness and negligence” of OceanGate, Rush and other defendants, the lawsuit states, seeking at least $50m.
It also alleges that it is likely that they would have known the submersible was about to implode.
“While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan’s crew would have realized exactly what was happening,” the lawsuit states.
“The vaunted ‘acoustic safety system’ would have alerted the crew that the carbon-fiber hull was cracking under extreme pressure – prompting the pilot to release weight and attempt to abort,” it alleges.
“Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying.”
As the safety mechanism to drop the weight in response to the hull cracking did not work, the lawsuit alleges that the crew “may well have heard the carbon fiber’s crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan’s hull.
“By experts’ reckoning, they would have continued to descend, in full knowledge of the vessel’s irreversible failures, experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the Titan ultimately imploding.”
A spokesperson for OceanGate declined to comment to the Associated Press.
Last week, Rory Golden, who was onboard the support ship for the submersible when the disaster occurred, spoke out about the fear and atmosphere of false hope during the doomed rescue effort.
“We had this image in our heads of them being down there, running out of oxygen in the freezing cold, getting terribly frightened and scared,” Golden, who was a close friend of Nargeolet, told BBC News.
After the disaster the US Coast Guard opened a Marine Board of Investigation into the incident to determine its cause. A public hearing is scheduled for September.
Titan sub crew were aware of imminent death before implosion, lawsuit alleges
New wrongful death suit filed by the family of French explorer who died in the 2023 disaster seeks $50m
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'All good here': Titan sub's last messages before implosion
One of the final messages from the five-person crew of the Titan submersible before it imploded, killing all inside, was "all good here", a hearing has revealed.
Investigators with the US Coast Guard said the message was among the final communications between the Titan and its mother ship, before they lost contact for good.
Also shown at the hearing for the first time was an image, taken by a remotely operated vehicle, of Titan's tail cone sitting on the sea floor following the implosion.
The deep-sea vessel was less than two hours into its descent towards the wreck of the Titanic when it imploded in June 2023.
Coast Guard officials began a two-week inquiry on Monday, aiming to uncover the facts of the incident and offer recommendations to prevent similar tragedies.
Investigators presented a recreation of the journey, including text messages between Titan and its mother ship, the Polar Prince.
Titan began its dive at 09:17 local time and support staff aboard the mother ship asked about the submersible's depth and weight, as well as whether it could still see the ship on its onboard display.
Communications were patchy, but about an hour into the dive, Titan messaged "all good here".
Its last message was sent at 10:47 local time, at a depth of 3,346m, to say it had dropped two weights. After that, communication was lost.
Officials presented a historical overview of the Titan, noting that its hull had never been subject to third-party testing and had been left exposed to weather and other elements while in storage.
In addition, they laid out serious problems experienced by the submersible on expeditions carried out before the disaster. In 2021 and 2022, over the course of 13 dives to the Titanic, it had 118 equipment issues.
These included the front dome falling off when it was brought out of the sea, its thrusters failing at 3,500m down and, on one dive, its batteries dying and leaving passengers stuck inside for 27 hours.
OceanGate, the manufacturer behind the craft, has previously faced questions over its design choices, its safety record and its adherence to regulations.
Tony Nissen, the company's former engineering director, said the evidence he had seen was "disturbing... professionally and personally".
Mr Nissen claimed that Stockton Rush, OceanGate's late CEO who was on board Titan, had the last word on most engineering decisions and was difficult to work with.
"Stockton would fight for what he wanted and, even if it changed from day to day, he wouldn't give an inch," he said.
"Most people would eventually back down to Stockton, it was death by a thousand cuts."
OceanGate suspended all exploration and commercial operations following the incident.
The company currently has no full-time staff but will be represented by a lawyer at the inquiry, it said.
Monday saw the start of the first public phase of an already 15-month investigation.
Unanswered questions over the Titan's ill-fated dive have fuelled a lingering debate over safety and the regulation of private undersea exploration.
The Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigations (MBI) is expected to hear from as many as 10 former OceanGate employees, including co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein, and experts in marine safety and undersea exploration.
An MBI is the highest available level of inquiry into US marine casualties and convenes roughly one hearing per year, its chairman said on Sunday.
"Out of thousands of investigations conducted, less than one rise to this level," Jason Neubauer said.
"We hope that this hearing will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent anything like this from happening again."
The board of top Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials has the authority to recommend civil penalties or make referrals for criminal prosecution to the US Department of Justice.
A search mission involving four governments unfolded after the submersible lost contact with its mother ship, the Polar Prince, on the morning of 18 June 2023 and never resurfaced.
As well as Rush, on board were British explorer Hamish Harding, veteran French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
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One of the final messages from the five-person crew of the Titan submersible before it imploded, killing all inside, was "all good here", a hearing has revealed.
Investigators with the US Coast Guard said the message was among the final communications between the Titan and its mother ship, before they lost contact for good.
Also shown at the hearing for the first time was an image, taken by a remotely operated vehicle, of Titan's tail cone sitting on the sea floor following the implosion.
The deep-sea vessel was less than two hours into its descent towards the wreck of the Titanic when it imploded in June 2023.
Coast Guard officials began a two-week inquiry on Monday, aiming to uncover the facts of the incident and offer recommendations to prevent similar tragedies.
Investigators presented a recreation of the journey, including text messages between Titan and its mother ship, the Polar Prince.
Titan began its dive at 09:17 local time and support staff aboard the mother ship asked about the submersible's depth and weight, as well as whether it could still see the ship on its onboard display.
Communications were patchy, but about an hour into the dive, Titan messaged "all good here".
Its last message was sent at 10:47 local time, at a depth of 3,346m, to say it had dropped two weights. After that, communication was lost.
Officials presented a historical overview of the Titan, noting that its hull had never been subject to third-party testing and had been left exposed to weather and other elements while in storage.
In addition, they laid out serious problems experienced by the submersible on expeditions carried out before the disaster. In 2021 and 2022, over the course of 13 dives to the Titanic, it had 118 equipment issues.
These included the front dome falling off when it was brought out of the sea, its thrusters failing at 3,500m down and, on one dive, its batteries dying and leaving passengers stuck inside for 27 hours.
OceanGate, the manufacturer behind the craft, has previously faced questions over its design choices, its safety record and its adherence to regulations.
Tony Nissen, the company's former engineering director, said the evidence he had seen was "disturbing... professionally and personally".
Mr Nissen claimed that Stockton Rush, OceanGate's late CEO who was on board Titan, had the last word on most engineering decisions and was difficult to work with.
"Stockton would fight for what he wanted and, even if it changed from day to day, he wouldn't give an inch," he said.
"Most people would eventually back down to Stockton, it was death by a thousand cuts."
OceanGate suspended all exploration and commercial operations following the incident.
The company currently has no full-time staff but will be represented by a lawyer at the inquiry, it said.
Monday saw the start of the first public phase of an already 15-month investigation.
Unanswered questions over the Titan's ill-fated dive have fuelled a lingering debate over safety and the regulation of private undersea exploration.
The Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigations (MBI) is expected to hear from as many as 10 former OceanGate employees, including co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein, and experts in marine safety and undersea exploration.
An MBI is the highest available level of inquiry into US marine casualties and convenes roughly one hearing per year, its chairman said on Sunday.
"Out of thousands of investigations conducted, less than one rise to this level," Jason Neubauer said.
"We hope that this hearing will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent anything like this from happening again."
The board of top Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials has the authority to recommend civil penalties or make referrals for criminal prosecution to the US Department of Justice.
A search mission involving four governments unfolded after the submersible lost contact with its mother ship, the Polar Prince, on the morning of 18 June 2023 and never resurfaced.
As well as Rush, on board were British explorer Hamish Harding, veteran French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
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Titan submersible was made in an amateurish manner. Very irresponsible.
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Titan sub broke days before doomed dive, says science chief
The Titan sub malfunctioned days before its doomed voyage to the wreck of the Titanic, the science chief of its owner has told an inquiry.
Steven Ross said on Thursday that the issue caused passengers to "tumble about" and for the sub to crash into bulkheading, leaving one passenger "hanging upside down" and others hanging on inside.
He added that he did not know whether the Titan's hull was inspected for damage after the incident.
A US Coast Guard inquiry is hearing two weeks of evidence into the Titan, which imploded in June 2023, killing all on board.
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The Titan sub malfunctioned days before its doomed voyage to the wreck of the Titanic, the science chief of its owner has told an inquiry.
Steven Ross said on Thursday that the issue caused passengers to "tumble about" and for the sub to crash into bulkheading, leaving one passenger "hanging upside down" and others hanging on inside.
He added that he did not know whether the Titan's hull was inspected for damage after the incident.
A US Coast Guard inquiry is hearing two weeks of evidence into the Titan, which imploded in June 2023, killing all on board.
Titan sub broke days before doomed dive, says science chief
US Coast Guard inquiry hears that malfunction caused passengers to "tumble about" inside sub.
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Watch gifted to captain who saved 700 Titanic passengers sells for record fee
A gold watch gifted to the captain of a boat which rescued Titanic passengers has sold for a record-breaking £1.56m.
The 18-carat Tiffany & Co pocket watch was given to Captain Arthur Rostron by three widows of high-profile and wealthy businessmen who died when the ship sank in 1912.
Captain Rostron helped save the women, along with hundreds of other passengers, when he changed the course of his Carpathia ship after hearing a distress call from the Titanic after it struck an iceberg.
The timepiece was sold to a private collector in the US on Saturday by auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire, who paid the highest-ever fee for Titanic memorabilia.
The previous record was set in April when another gold pocket watch, recovered from the body of the richest man on the ship, John Jacob Astor, sold for £1.175m at the same auction house.
Mr Astor died aged 47 when the ship went down, after seeing his new wife Madeleine on to a lifeboat.
Mrs Astor was one of the widows who gifted Captain Rostron his watch, presenting it to him at a lunch at the family's mansion on Fifth Avenue, New York, according to the auction house.
An inscription on it reads: "Presented to Captain Rostron with the heartfelt gratitude and appreciation of three survivors of the Titanic April 15th 1912 Mrs John B Thayer, Mrs John Jacob Astor and Mrs George D Widener."
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: "It was presented principally in gratitude for Rostron's bravery in saving those lives, because without Mr Rostron, those 700 people wouldn't have made it."
The violin that was played as the ship sank held the previous record for 11 years after being sold for £1.1m in 2013.
More than 1,500 people were killed after the Titanic hit an iceberg, with just 705 survivors.
Watch gifted to captain who saved 700 Titanic passengers sells for record fee
The 18-carat Tiffany & Co pocket watch belonged to Captain Arthur Rostron, who helped save the 705 people from the sunken ship.
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Recording captures audio of Titanic submersible implosion
A recording has captured the implosion of the Titan submersible which went missing on its voyage to the wreck of the Titanic.
A passive acoustic recorder located around 900 miles from the implosion site picked up the sound, US Coast Guard officials said in a statement.
The short recording includes a loud noise that sounds like a muffled clap, before going silent for a few seconds.
The coastguard said the audio clip "records the suspected acoustic signature of the Titan submersible implosion" on 18 June 2023.
The implosion killed all five people on board - Titan operator Stockton Rush, who founded Oceangate, the company that owned the submersible; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert and the sub's pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The sub vanished on its way to visit the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean, setting off a five-day search that ended when authorities said the vessel had been destroyed with no survivors.
The wreckage was eventually found on the ocean floor around 300m from the Titanic, according to officials.
After the disaster concerns were raised because of the Titan's unconventional design and Rush's refusal to submit to independent safety checks.
OceanGate suspended operations in July 2023.
A coastguard panel investigating the disaster heard two weeks of testimony last September, which saw a former OceanGate scientific director say the Titan malfunctioned during a dive just a few days before it imploded.
The coastguard is expected to release more information about the implosion in the future.
A spokesperson said the investigation is still ongoing and a final report will be released after it is completed.
Recording captures audio of Titanic submersible implosion
A passive acoustic recorder located around 900 miles from the implosion site picked up the sound, US Coast Guard officials said in a statement.
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