A British TV presenter has revealed that, like Discovery+ explorer Josh Gates, he considered making a show in which he travelled to the wreck of the Titanic in an OceanGate sub – before rejec…
– a veteran of daredevil documentary-making over the last two decades – had planned to make the show last summer, before pulling out. “Their team checked out this OceanGate submersible and pulled out of using it, as it was simply not considered safe or fit for purpose.
“The company was looked at initially because they were a well-known organisation, but after [production company] Atlantic started asking questions, any plans quickly unravelled.”after safety checks “did not perform well.” This follows the tragic news this week that five men, three of whom were British, had died aboard the mini-sub Titan, with experts pronouncing the course of the accident to be a “catastrophic implosion.” Debris of the shattered capsule has been found.
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