Richard Garriott, President of the Explorers Club, has issued an encouraging statement on the search and rescue mission for the Titan submarine. through his Twitter account.
“Hay reasons for hope, based on field data: we understand that probable signs of life have been detected at the site. We believe that (the US Coast Guard) is doing the best it can with all the resources it has.”
NEW. ⚠️Crews searching for the #Titan submersible heard banging sounds every 30 minutes Tuesday and four hours later, after additional sonar devices were deployed, banging was still heard, according to an internal government memo update on the search. (1/4) #titanic #Submersible pic.twitter.com/b6iItRINqB
— Josh Benson (@WFLAJosh) June 21, 2023
Also in the last few hoursa Canadian P3 plane would also have located a white rectangular object in the water, but all the boats that help in the rescue of the Titan submersible have been derived towards the place of the “sounds”.
OceanGate Safety Concern
And while the countdown to finding the five occupants of the Titan alive continues, the media begins to echo the alleged safety problems of the tourist submersible. According to various media, two former employees of OceanGate Expeditions raised their concerns about the safety of the submersible in 2018. According to his statements, his concerns had to do with the thickness of the hull of the now-defunct tourist submarine. At the time of the complaint, both employees were fired accused by the company of sharing “company secrets.” Statements by the CEO of Ocean Gate are spreading like wildfire on social networks in which he assures that “he has broken some rules by confronting some engineers”
So far it is known that five people were traveling on the “adventure” of descending to the Titanic to observe the remains of the famous ocean liner that disappeared in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the icy waters of Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada. The remains of the Titanic were found a few years ago and soon after the OceanGate company offered trips to 4,000 meters deep to see the remains of the shipwreck for about 250,000 dollars per person.
At a depth of 4,000 meters, according to experts, it is totally dark and the water pressure is enormous. Not all boats would be prepared to withstand that pressure. Apparently, the submarine could carry all the necessary technologies to make this descent, although it would not have passed any official qualification.
