NEW YORK — The company behind the lost Titanic tourist submersible exaggerated the details of the industry partnerships behind the development and engineering of its Titan submersible.
The submersible likely suffered a"catastrophic implosion" based on debris located 1600 feet from the wreckage of the Titanic, according to the Coast Guard. The five passengers aboard the experimental deep-sea vessel"have sadly been lost," according to the submersible company OceanGate Inc.
"The state-of-the-art vessel, designed and engineered by OceanGate Inc. in collaboration [with] experts from NASA, Boeing and the University of Washington, made its subsea debut in 2018," OceanGate Expeditions -- the Bahamas-based company that operates U.S.-based OceanGate Inc. submersibles -- said about the Titan submersible on its now inaccessible website.
Victor Balta, a UW spokesperson, added that OceanGate and UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory initially signed a $5 million collaborative research agreement, but the two entities “parted ways” after only $650,000 of work was completed. That research only resulted in the development of another OceanGate submersible, the shallow-diving Cyclops I submersible, according to Balta.
“No UW researchers were involved in any of those tests and UW personnel did not provide any verification or validation of any OceanGate equipment as a result of those tests,” Balta said in a statement. OceanGate also made repeated statements in press releases about its involvement with NASA, including thanking the entity for design and engineering support.
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