Entrepreneur Guillermo Sönlein, co-founder of OceanGate, the company that organized trips to the sunken submersible “Titanic”, today rejected some criticism of the company’s security, believing that these people They don’t have “all the information” to give an opinion.

Appeal to the British broadcaster BBC Radio 4Sönlein, an Argentine-American who left the company ten years ago, although he still owns a minority stake in itsaid those commenting on matters relating to the safety conditions of the downed Titan submersible are not “fully informed”.

“People continue to equate certification with safety and ignore 14 years of Titan submersible development“to complain.

According to him, “Any expert who weighs this, including (director James) Cameron, will also admit that they weren’t in the design of the submarine, during the engineering process of the submarine, during the construction of the submarine and, of course, weren’t there.” “. when it was done rigorous testing program that the submarine went through.”.

Zenlein believed that what happened suggests “a tragic loss for the ocean exploration community” although he noted that anyone who works in the ocean “knows the risk of working under such pressure and he knows that at some point he is in danger of being subjected to an explosion of this kind.

James Cameron Compares Tragedy Titanium with the Titanic; ‘a nightmare’

James Cameron spoke about the explosion of the Titan submersible that killed four passengers and its pilot, expressing surprise at his similarity to the Titanic.

“I am struck by the resemblance to the Titanic disaster itself, in in which the captain was repeatedly warned about the presence of ice ahead of his ship, but he sped off into the ice zone“, – confirmed the film director of the American network ABC news.

“This is a very similar tragedy in the same place. It’s amazing and truly surreal. (…) a nightmare it went through all of our minds at some point,” he added.

Similarly, a Canadian filmmaker who has defended the safe practice of deep diving emphasized that “Many people” have expressed concern about OceanGate Expeditions. because “what they were doing was too experimental and needed to be certified.”