Claustrophobic footage reveals inside OceanGate’s ‘improvised’ Titanic sub built from camping shop stock & Xbox controller
A DEEP-pocketed businessman plans to visit the Titanic wreck site in a two-person submarine despite last year's implosion that killed five people.
Connor said he and Patrick Lahey, co-founder of Triton Submarines, will both plunge more than 12,400 feet, or roughly 2.3 miles, to the same shipwreck site in a $20 million luxury two-person submersible. “, you know, what we need to do is build a sub that can dive to repeatedly and safely and demonstrate to the world that you guys can do that, and that Titan was a contraption,’” Lahey said.
For example, the waiver that Titan passengers had to sign mentioned multiple times that passengers could die and described the vessel as "experimental" three times, despite ignoring many safety regulations. Other industry leaders, like one former chief submersible pilot for OceanGate, said years before the incident in 2023 that he worried Rush would get himself and others killed in a "quest to boost his ego."
This would have been the third trip to the Titanic for OceanGate, with the other two being deemed "successful," despite customers saying they went through bad experiences on board.his trip on the submersible was canceled due to an equipment malfunction after the Titan reached just 37 feet deep.
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