We have already written that the CEO of the company neglected safety measures when creating his submarine. Rush wasted them, and according to reporters who saw the submarine before the accident, the boat was made from off-the-shelf components not specifically designed for such situations, and even used an old video game controller (gamepad). control. It was now known to the media that the company saves on the trunk.

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Travel Weekly’s editor-in-chief Arnie Weissmann joined OceanGate Expeditions’ mission to the Titanic’s wreckage in May. His “Mission 2” trip was supposed to be next. In his material, he describes the lengthy preparation and briefing process and several failed attempts when dives were canceled due to bad weather. He met with Rush one evening and learned more about the dubious design of the submarine during the chat.

The only thing that bothered me was that he said he bought the carbon fiber the Titan was made from at a huge discount from Boeing because it had expired in airplanes. I asked him if this was a problem. He said these dates were set much earlier than they should have been, and that Boeing and even NASA were involved in the development and testing of Titan.
– writes Weissmann.

In addition to Weissmann, the second expedition’s crew list included Stockton Rush, veteran shipwreck explorer PH Nargeolet, Craig Curran of the DePrez Travel Bureau, and a senior officer in the Australian Navy named Stephen.

Experts warned

Another interesting article was published in the New York Times. It tells the story of submarine expert Carl Stanley, who traveled on Titan in 2019. He then tried to warn Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, that his submarine had malfunctioned: During the two-hour voyage, he heard an increasingly loud explosion.

In an email to Rush, Stanley said the loud crackling he heard while diving “seems to be a defect in a damaged area under tremendous stress.” He wrote that a high crack indicates “a collapsing section of the trunk.” Rush never responded to this email directly, but made some changes to the Titan, including building a new hull and canceling dives scheduled for that year.

What happened to Titan?

Experts say one explanation for what could have caused Titan to explode is that water seeped into the place where a piece of titanium was glued to the end of the ship’s cylinder. “It could be anywhere you glue the carbon fiber to the titanium or around the porthole.”said Captain Alfred McLaren, a retired Navy captain and friend of Paul-Henri Narjolet, who was one of those on Titan when it exploded that week.

At that depth, the leak may be no larger than the diameter of a hair and you’ll be dead in a second. In fact, they wouldn’t notice how it happened. They wouldn’t even know they were dead, they’d be dead before they knew it.
– said Captain McLaren, the commander of the nuclear submarine.

According to experts, during the dives in 2021 and 2022, salt water trapped between the ship’s various materials passed through the fibers and softened them, making the ship more vulnerable.