The company behind the Titan submersible’s fatal trip to the Titanic wreckage has suspended all operations.
22.06.2023 - 15:45 / variety.com
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Josh Gates, an explorer and the host of “Expedition Unknown” and more shows on the Discovery Channel, revealed on Twitter that he turned down a chance to visit the wreckage of the Titanic using OceanGate’s now-missing Titan submersible. Gates was supposed to film on the submersible but decided against it after discovering “safety concerns.” “I had the unique opportunity to dive in the OceanGate Titan sub with [company CEO] Stockton at the helm in preparation for its maiden mission to Titanic,” Gates wrote. “I pray for a positive outcome to the rescue efforts of those aboard, including fellow ‘Explorers Club’ member Hamish Harding.”
Gates added, “To those asking, Titan did not perform well on my dive. Ultimately, I walked away from a huge opportunity to film Titanic due to my safety concerns with the OceanGate platform. There’s more to the history and design of Titan that has not been made public – much of it concerning.”
OceanGate’s Titan submersible is designed to take five people to a depth of 4,000 meters to visit the wreckage of the Titanic. The trip costs around $250,000 per person. The structure has an oxygen life support span of 96 hours (four days) for five people. Each round-trip journey to the Titanic wreckage can take up to 10 hours. Guests aboard the missing submersible include British businessman Hamish Harding; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman; former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet; and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush. “To those questioning why people would dive to Titanic: the ship has fascinated the world since the night she sank,” Gates also wrote on Twitter. “It’s a time capsule to another era of our history. It takes
The company behind the Titan submersible’s fatal trip to the Titanic wreckage has suspended all operations.
submersible that imploded with five people on board, has suspended all exploration and commercial operations.The company made the announcement Thursday in a banner on its website. No further details were provided.
The “presumed human remains” of the passengers aboard the Titan submersible have been recovered.
U.S. Coast Guard announced that crews recovered the remains while searching through the wreckage. Per a news release from the Coast Guard, medical professionals will conduct a «formal analysis» of the «presumed human remains» that have been carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident. Additionally, the Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) intends to transport the evidence aboard a U.S.
U.S. Coast Guard announced that crews recovered the remains while searching through the wreckage. Per a news release from the Coast Guard, medical professionals will conduct a «formal analysis» of the «presumed human remains» that have been carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident. Additionally, the Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) intends to transport the evidence aboard a U.S.
the Titan submersible. Our thoughts and condolences go out to their families and friends during this difficult time. We were saddened to learn of their passing, which OceanGate announced.“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the company said in a statement shared by People.“These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans.
Those who refused a trip on OceanGate’s submersible are no doubt feeling more and more grateful for their decision following the Titan vessel’s catastrophic implosion.
Former EastEnders actor turned adventure documentary maker Ross Kemp just revealed that he almost made a TV show diving down to the Titanic wreckage in a submersible owned by OceanGate.This revelation follows the tragic news announced on Thursday that the five passengers aboard the Titan sub - which was owned by diving company OceanGate - had perished during their recent expedition. In terms of daredevil Ross, who has made plenty of other nail-biting diving documentaries, the decision to go ahead with the Titanic exploration was called off by the production company behind his other shows.
In the 24 hours since we learned the Titan submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” claiming the lives of the five passengers on board — OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman, and British billionaire Hamish Harding — the world has come together to mourn with the families of the unfortunate victims.
Is this really the time to be defending a sub that just imploded?!
Less than a full day after the Titan submersible was confirmed to have imploded, the families of the passengers are “united in grief.”
James Cameron has a great deal of experience with the difficult and potentially dangerous process of such an adventure.The wreckage site has once again gripped the public's attention after OceanGate Expeditions' tourist submersible, Titan, went missing on June 18 while carrying five passengers during a dive down to the Titanic's final resting place. Five days later, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S.
Several experts are speaking out about what might have happened underwater during the catastrophic tragedy that claimed the lives of the five victims aboard the OceanGate submersible headed to the Titanic wreckage site.
The families of the five victims who were passengers aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible vessel en route to the Titanic wreckage site have all released statements.
The families of three of the victims of the Titanic submersible implosion have paid tribute to them as 'beloved, dedicated' fathers and sons.
presumed «dead» along with the four other passengers on the vessel, was married to the descendent of a couple who died in the very shipwreck his expedition aimed to see.Per, the , Stockton's wife, Wendy Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who remained onboard the sinking Titanic so that others could escape to safety in their place.The couple was the real-life inspiration behind the heart-wrenching scene in James Cameron's movie, in which an elderly couple holds onto each other in bed as water rushes into their room.Wendy's Titanic connection was confirmed by the through genealogical records and by the Straus Historical Society — an educational nonprofit.
Experts fear that the bodies of the five Titanic submersible victims may never be found after the missing vessel imploded in the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the passengers thought to have perished on the Titan submersible was a 19-year-old student from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, it has emerged.
Expedition Unknown on Discovery Plus, tweeted on Wednesday (June 21) that he turned down the opportunity to film Titanic because the submersible “did not perform well” during a test dive.Gates said that he was given the chance to join OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush on a test dive, which took place in July 2021.“To those asking, #Titan did not perform well on my dive. Ultimately, I walked away from a huge opportunity to film Titanic due to my safety concerns w/ the @OceanGate platform.
Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the Titanic. After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself. “People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded. To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”