The company that lost its CEO and four other passengers on a Titanic-bound submersible last month is suspending commercial operations.
23.06.2023 - 21:45 / perezhilton.com
Someone else has come forward to speak about his concerning experiences while on the Titan submersible.
By now you know that the OceanGate vessel went missing with five passengers – Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and CEO Stockton Rush – aboard during a trip down to the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. Following a four-day search, it was confirmed during a press conference on Thursday that the sub suffered a catastrophic implosion, and all five voyagers died. So, so awful.
Amid the tragedy, a lot of details have come out about the safety issues of the submersible. An employee for OceanGate, David Lochridge, allegedly warned something disastrous could happen during these expeditions! However, the safety concerns were disregarded by the company, and he was subsequently fired and sued.
Related: Families Of OceanGate Titan Submersible Victims Speak Out Following Implosion
This whistleblower at OceanGate wasn’t the only person to voice their concerns! Even James Cameron claimed experts in the deep-submergence engineering community had told them about how dangerous their voyages would be for passengers! Now, a writer and producer for The Simpsons has shared his troubling experiences during his travels with OceanGate – while also shockingly defending the company!
Mike Reiss revealed to CNN on Tuesday that he did a dive with OceanGate four different times – including one to the Titanic wreckage last year. However, his travels were not problem free. Mike told the outlet that he lost communication with their surface ship every single time! He said:
So scary!! It is wild that Mike continued to make voyages with OceanGate despite the mechanical issues on the vessel. But according to the
The company that lost its CEO and four other passengers on a Titanic-bound submersible last month is suspending commercial operations.
The company behind the Titan submersible’s fatal trip to the Titanic wreckage has suspended all operations.
submersible that imploded with five people on board, has suspended all exploration and commercial operations.The company made the announcement Thursday in a banner on its website. No further details were provided.
A man who pulled out of the ill-fated Titan submersible trip has opened up on a "haunting" moment he shared with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush the day before the journey. Arnie Weissmann, editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, claims the multi-millionaire bragged about buying reduced price expired materials.
Yep, you read the headline right! Even with their CEO’s death, OceanGate is apparently still out to make a dollar!
Well, we guess this is the final piece of the search…
Well, this is a bit quick — and unexpected.
OceanGate is facing even more backlash following the death of five passengers on its Titan submersible. Why is that? Well, online sleuths discovered a job posting from the company advertising an “immediate opening” for a submersible pilot – which was still live during the search efforts for the vessel and the group of men.
Those who refused a trip on OceanGate’s submersible are no doubt feeling more and more grateful for their decision following the Titan vessel’s catastrophic implosion.
More shocking information about the OceanGate submersible has come out.
Is this really the time to be defending a sub that just imploded?!
Less than a full day after the Titan submersible was confirmed to have imploded, the families of the passengers are “united in grief.”
recent criticism that the Titan submersible was “too experimental to carry passengers.”“In this kind of community, there are completely different opinions and views about how to do things, how to design submersibles, how to engineer them, build them, how to operate in the dives,” Söhnlein told the U.K.’s Times Radio on Friday. “But one thing that’s true of me and the other experts, is none of us were involved in the design, engineering, building, testing or even diving of the subs.
It’s easy to forget, amid all the talk of the OceanGate disaster killing CEOs and billionaires, that the youngest victim was only 19 years old. Just a kid really. And that young man was “terrified” of the excursion, according to his aunt.
Chris Brown signed up with tragic pal Hamish Harding, 68, after a 'few beers' while holidaying on Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island but later claimed scaffolding poles were used as ballast and the vessel was 'shoddy'. MailOnline has revealed that Vegas financier Jay Bloom and his son Sean also declined a voyage with his son Sean - even when they were offered a $100,000 discount off the $250,000 price by OceanGate CVEO Stockton Rush. And another explorer, David Concannon, was slated to join the trip but was forced to cancel at the last minute due to a work meeting.
Former passengers of the OceanGate Titan are speaking out following the sub’s disastrous implosion.
presumed «dead» along with the four other passengers on the vessel, was married to the descendent of a couple who died in the very shipwreck his expedition aimed to see.Per, the , Stockton's wife, Wendy Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who remained onboard the sinking Titanic so that others could escape to safety in their place.The couple was the real-life inspiration behind the heart-wrenching scene in James Cameron's movie, in which an elderly couple holds onto each other in bed as water rushes into their room.Wendy's Titanic connection was confirmed by the through genealogical records and by the Straus Historical Society — an educational nonprofit.
Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the Titanic. After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself. “People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded. To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”
CNN is now reporting that the debris found at the bottom of the ocean near the Titanic wreckage site has been “assessed to be from submersible,” and, moments ago, OceanGate Expeditions released a statement to the news organization confirming that the 5 members on board have tragically died.
Titanic wreck. The submersible went missing on Sunday off the coast of St. John’s, Newfoundland, after its communication systems began failing an hour and 30 minutes after its descent.