The vessel wasn’t independently certified because OceanGate believed this would stifle innovation. Its final journey has now ended much like the Titanic itself.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.David Lochridge was worried. It was January 2018 and the OceanGate Expeditions director had just completed a quality control report on an experimental vessel that would soon embark on its maiden voyage to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
But when Lochridge raised his concerns with OceanGate executives, including founder Stockton Rush, one of the five men who perished in the vessel this week, he claims he wasn’t just ignored. He was given about 10 minutes to clear his desk and leave.
French maritime expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, was known as “Mr Titanic” because he had more than 35 dives to the shipwreck under his belt. – the storied ship that hit an iceberg and sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912, killing more than 1500 of the 2200 passengers on board. “Imagine a metal tube a few metres long with a sheet of metal for a floor. You can’t stand. You can’t kneel. Everyone is sitting close to or on top of each other. You can’t be claustrophobic,” he told the Associated Press last week. “You have to be a little bit crazy to do this sort of thing.”
“And we’re not talking about massive depths. When I eventually pulled out at the end of 2018 they hadn’t got below 300 metres. Bear in mind that the wreck is at 3800 metres.” But Rush’s plan was to go even further. OceanGate was already developing a new submarine called Cyclops 3, he told the crowd, that would go to depths of 6000 metres, meaning it could explore 98 per cent of the planet’s oceans.
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