'Every trip I've taken, there was a problem': Former Titan Titanic travellers reveal issues

you steer the ship with a a controller with that joystick from a gaming system you know a home gaming system there's special training just to learn how to get into an escape suit in and out of that it's it's a very tough thing to get into these kind of warm weather coveralls uh that will float you if you know you have to bail from a ship or escape from the submarine beyond that no real training when we went down it was there were communication problems on every trip I've taken of the four separate Dives I've taken went Ocean Gate every time there was a problem with at least you know sporadically communicating with the surface and again I don't think that's their fault as much as just that's the nature of the Beast you know when you're going a thousand feet or 13 000 feet under water you're gonna lose contact for a while before we went we had never seen the sub we didn't know anything about it there's very little information on the website I didn't know at that point that the that you drive the thing with an Xbox game controller I didn't know that the ballast was you know used construction pipes uh and then you get the tour and Stockton Rush the designer of the sub the CEO explains to you that all of this stuff the lights and the handles and the propellers these are off-the-shelf Parts because well not only are they inexpensive but they're tried and true they're mass-produced the part we care about is the the pressure vessel the capsule where the people are and that he designed with NASA and the University of Washington and uh that he says is as locked down as it gets his exact words were everything else can fail the lights can go out the propellers can stop but you will still be alive you were bolted in from the outside there are 18 bolts in a circle around the hatch and by the way they only fasten 17 of them the 18th one is way up high and they say there's really no mathematical difference um so you're right the really nightmarish scenario is that they are alive at the surface bobbing away running out of air and unable to get out [Music] [Applause]

Channel: The Telegraph

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Keywords: Telegraph, News, Titanic, north atlantic, P-3 aircraft, US Navy, OceanGate, Stockton Rush

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Length: 3min 10sec (190 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023