“Boeing was not a partner on the Titan and did not design or build it,” the company told The Post, while the University of Washington said it “was not involved in the design, engineerin…
thanked Boeing as an “industry partner” giving “design and engineering support.”
Challenged over concerns it appeared to have “some elements of MacGyvery jerry-rigged-ness,” Rush confidently stated that only “certain things that you want to be buttoned down.” The lab “was not involved in the design, engineering or testing of the TITAN submersible used in the RMS TITANIC expedition,” university spokesperson Victor Balta told the network late Wednesday.While OceanGate used testing tanks at the UW School of Oceanography for nine tests between 2016 and 2022, it was on a contract basis without any assistance from university researchers.
He admitted that the hull of a prototype — only a third of the size of the Titan — imploded during those tests, shaking the building and blowing out the lab’s pressure sensors, which Rush had to replace.
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