The announcement comes amid mounting questions about the Titan's design, including the account of a submersible expert who said he warned the vessel's CEO about safety concerns after a trip years ago.
"I think anybody can imagine that it's difficult, the circumstances they have been under for the last few days," Fox said. "And we have to understand that, that's going to affect particularly the families who have lost loved ones.""There are teams on site that are still going to be collecting data for the next few days, weeks, maybe months, and it's going to be a long time before we know exactly what happened down there," Sohnlein told CNN on Friday.
When asked for comment about Stanley's email, a spokesman for OceanGate told CNN they were unable to provide any additional information at this time.Stanley told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday that although Rush did not respond to him in writing, Rush likely rebuilt the vessel using the same material Boeing uses to build their planes.
Asked whether he was confident in the submersible's capability to make the journey to the historic shipwreck, Stanley said he believed Rush took steps to correct the problem after the email. McCallum is a member of the Marine Technology Society, a group of industry leaders in the submersible industry. McCallum also signed a 2018 letter from the group to Rush, expressing concern over what they said was the company's "experimental approach" of the Titan and its planned expedition to the site of the Titanic wreckage.
Again, Rush was dismissive, writing that he "heard the baseless cries of, you are going to kill someone, way too often.""Ironically, in your race to Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry, 'She is unsinkable.' Having dived the Titanic and having stood in a Coroners Court as a technical expert, it would be remiss of me not to bring this to your attention," he wrote.
A second mission of the Odysseus 6K ROV began late Friday morning to continue searching and mapping efforts, said Jeff Mahoney, spokesperson for Pelagic Research Services, a company that specializes in ocean expedition.
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