There were a number of warnings
OceanGate boss Stockton Rush, who died on board the doomed Titan submersible, ignored previous warnings over his vessel described as 'death trap that could kill someone'.
Worried industry leaders claimed there was “concern regarding the development of Titan and the planned Titanic expeditions”. In its letter, The Marine Technology Society, a 60-year-old trade group that aims to promote ocean technology, wrote: "Your marketing material advertises that the TITAN design will meet or exceed the DNV-GL safety standards, yet it does not appear that OceanGate has the intention of following DNV-GL class rules.
In an email seen by the BBC, McCallum told Rush: "I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic. In your race to [the] Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'". After the implosion, the other OceanGate co-founder, Guillermo Sohnlein, defended the firm – describing regulations surrounding visits to the Titanic as “tricky to navigate”. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating 'the circumstances that led to the deaths' of the five crew on board the sub and decide 'whether or not a full investigation is warranted'.
Alan Estrada also embarked on a trip aboard the Titan in 2022 with the hope of seeing the Titanic wreckage. However, his journey was abruptly cut short when the submersible's batteries suddenly lost power, leaving its energy source drained to 40 percent. Ominous cracking sound A submersible expert who took a trip on the Titan sub with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush in 2019 says the hull made terrifying creaking sounds during their descent. Karl Stanley said he warned Rush to slow down his Titanic plans after their 12,000-foot descent in the Caribbean.
But when McCallum visited OceanGate's workshop in Seattle, he was unimpressed. In fact, he was disturbed. "You have the hand controller talking to a Wi-Fi unit, which is talking to a black box, which is talking to the sub’s thrusters," he said of Cyclops I, the company's first submersible, which was able to venture only about 1,500 feet down. "There were multiple points of failure.
The ex-student, Mark Walsh, had been the treasurer of WSU’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers club when OceanGate’s director of engineering, Tony Nissen, described some of the company’s challenges, according to the school paper. Walsh said he and fellow students volunteered to offer solutions.
“Student capstone projects do not constitute formal contracts or partnerships; they serve as an industry-driven initiative to provide students with expertly supervised practical experience in their respective fields of study. It's believed the lightning struck during deep-sea testing in 2018 near Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas. “Upon arrival the sub’s electronics sustained lightning damage that affected over 70% of its internal systems,” OceanGate said a later post on OceanGate's Instagram post. “Combined with uncharacteristically stormy and windy conditions in the Bahamas the team was unable to complete the first 4000-metre dive at least 45 days prior to the Titanic Survey Expedition.
Titan sub window 'wasn't suitable' Concerns about the strength rating of the Titan's viewport were also ignored by Rush. Again, David Lochridge raised the concerns after Lochridge discovered that the viewpoint was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters – despite OceanGate intending to take passengers down to 4,000 meters, Daily Mail reports after viewing legal filings.
The BBC documentary "The Travel Show" shows Scott shrug at the time and tell passengers "they checked it and it seemed good." as he explains that the vessel's controls are not working, suggesting a problem with the thruster. "When I'm thrusting forwards, one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards. Now the only thing I can do right now is a 360." he adds.
“I was incredibly lucky back then,” the 60-year-old said. Loibl undertook the perilous underwater odyssey in August 2021, diving down over 12,000 metres to the famous wreck in the now infamous submersible. Alongside him for the £87,000 descent were Nargeolet, 73 and Rush, 61. The crew had been at sea waiting out some bad weather for six days when the skies finally cleared and the waves calmed enough to attempt a dive. Oceangate lowered its submersible, which was filled with six people including Pogue, into the water.
Right before his voyage, the bracket of the stabilisation tube, which balances the sub, tore and had to be “reattached with zip ties,” he said. He added the cramped conditions on board the Titan weren’t exactly reassuring. Sub span 360-degrees on previous trip "We have a problem." Those are the words former Titan pilot Scott Griffith said to crew members aboard the OceanGate submersible on a venture down to the wreckage of the Titanic.
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