Experts have raised safety concerns about OceanGate's missing submarine multiple times.
The submarine was exploring the Titanic wreckage when it went missing.
The missing Titan submarine, which went missing with five people on board in the vicinity of the Titanic's wreck site, is being controlled by a generic version of a PlayStation controller. Mr Rush then quipped that his invention “shouldn’t take a lot of skill” to reach the depth of the Titanic.But Mr Rush insisted that the submarine was safe.
While he was at the surface, the internet was shut off on the command ship, which could still send short texts to the submarine but did not know where it was, he wrote.Previous safety warnings about OceanGate submarineMore than thirty people including industry leaders, deep-sea explorers and oceanographers said in a letter to Mr Rush that the company’s “experimental” approach and its decision to forgo a traditional assessment could lead to potentially “catastrophic” problems.
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