A former OceanGate consultant, Rob MacCallum, guarantees that the five crew members who traveled on the submarine “Titan” to visit the Titanic wreck knew there was a problem with the submarine just before the “catastrophic implosion” occurred.
According to Rob MacCallum, in an interview with The New Yorker magazine, the ship attempted to return to the surface after releasing some weights that kept the submarine on the sea floor.
McCallum is a co-founder of the expedition company EYOS Expedition and was invited by OceanGate’s CEO to join the expedition, but he decided not to get involved in the project because he did not trust the submersible’s technology.
“The report I received immediately after the event – well before the oxygen time ran out – was that the submarine was approaching 3,500 meters,” he explained.
To the specialist, the submarine “lost weight”, indicating that the “mission was aborted” and that the “Titanium crew knew about the problem before the implosion”, trying to return to the surface, but without success.
Communications with the submarine were lost about 45 minutes into the dive, according to OceanGate Expeditions, and the Titan’s wreckage was about 3,810 feet deep and nearly 488 feet from Titanic.
On June 22, authorities announced that the submarine Titan, reported missing on June 18, had imploded on its descent to Titanic, killing all five people on board.
British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, 58, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and son Suleman Dawood, 19, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, a French explorer and former naval officer, also known as “Mister Titanic”. as Stockton Rush, 61, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, responsible for the trip.
Source: DN
