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Alan Estrada said the battery of OceanGate’s Titan submersible drained mid-voyage, forcing the vessel to return to save the lives of its passengers.
A number of professionals in the deep submergence engineering field shared concern about OceanGate’s $250,000-per-person trips, which had been offered since 2021.
David Lochridge, OceanGate’s director of marine operations, in a 2018 lawsuit that the company’s testing and certification was insufficient and would “subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible.”
During a meeting with OceanGate’s top brass the following day, Mr Lochridge recommended OceanGate voluntarily apply for regulation and classification through an independent agency such as the American Bureau of Shipping.
OceanGate’s decision to cease operations comes just after the company’s former finance director claimed she quit after CEO Stockton Rush asked her to captain the once he fired the craft’s original chief pilot David Lochridge.
On Wednesday Kathleen Cosnett, a cousin of Mr Harding (58) told the Telegraph that OceanGate’s eight-hour delay before contacting the authorities was “far too long”.
Years before OceanGate’s submersible went missing on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, an industry group wrote a letter criticizing the company’s approach to safety and lack of oversight.