A former mission specialist for OceanGate, Fred Hagen, is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel on Friday about the company's operations before the doomed Titan submersible implosion last year.
Other witnesses have characterized mission specialists as people who paid a fee to play a role in OceanGate's underwater exploration.Another mission specialist who worked with the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage is scheduled to testify before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday.about the company's operations before the doomed mission.
Lochridge and other witnesses have painted a picture of a company led by people who were impatient to get the unconventionally designed craft into the water. The deadly accident set off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration. “I was learning a lot and working with amazing people,” Rojas said. “Some of those people are very hardworking individuals that were just trying to make dreams come true.”
One of the last messages from Titan’s crew to Polar Prince before the submersible imploded stated, “all good here,” according to a visual recreation presented earlier in the hearing.
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