The company that operated the Titan submarine, which imploded on its journey to the Titanic’s wreckage, announced Thursday that it has suspended all operations indefinitely.
Last week, the remains of the submarine’s remaining wreckage were found and taken to the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Eastern Canada.
According to information published on the company’s website, “all exploration and commercial activities were suspended” following the tragedy in which the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, was among the dead.
A previous big scare
This announcement comes on the same day it was also revealed that on an earlier dive of the submarine Titan, the pilot had already lost control when the propellers failed, meaning the device was limited to making circles, in great depths.
A video published by The Daily Mail shows the exact moment Scott Griffith, the pilot of the Titan, realizes the total loss of control.
In the same video, Griffith tells the passengers that one of the thrusters moved forward while the other made the opposite trajectory by pushing backwards.
“All I can do right now is a 360,” he says.
Renata Rojas, a Mexican diver who was on the Titan at the time, told the BBC: “I thought, ‘We’re not going to make it’. We’re not going to go round in circles.”
Rojas said the submarine was less than 300 meters from the Titanic, nearly 4,000 meters below sea level.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was in communication with the submarine Titan while it was stuck in circles and helped correct its course so the ship could head for the wreckage, according to the Mail.
Rush was aboard the submarine Titan when it lost communication with its support ship during a dive on Titanic on June 18. Four days later, the United States Coast Guard announced that the Titan’s wreckage had been found and confirmed the deaths of all five people on board.
Since then, Rush and OceanGate have come under scrutiny for ignoring safety concerns from former employees and submarine industry experts.
Others had problems with the Titan’s thrusters. Josh Gates, the host of the Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown,” told “The Today Show” that he pulled out of a dive to the Titanic with OceanGate in 2021 because the submarine “didn’t perform well” during its dive.
The company that operated the submarine that imploded on its journey to the Titanic wreckage said Thursday it had suspended all operations indefinitely.
Last week, the remains of the submarine’s remaining wreckage were found and taken to the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Eastern Canada.
According to information published on the company’s website, “all exploration and commercial activities were suspended” following the tragedy in which the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, was among the dead.
Also on board were British explorer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
It is believed they died immediately after the SUV-sized submarine imploded, thanks to the crushing pressure of the North Atlantic Ocean, after reaching a depth of nearly four kilometers.
A debris field was found on the seabed 500 meters off the bow of the Titanic, 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
Source: DN
