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The catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible this week may serve as a grim lesson for any company aiming to take amateur adventurers to extreme depths without heeding industry expertise, long-time undersea explorers have warned.

"Despite all the safety measures, all the experience coming from other people, all the certification process, everything we know about safety, there are still people who are taking inconsiderate risks," said Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard.

How did the search for a sunken migrant vessel off Greece compare with the efforts to find the Titan? Jacques Piccard, seen in an undated photo taken in Rome, speaking to journalists beside the first submarine built for tourism, the Mesoscaphe Auguste Piccard, named after his physicist father.The allure to explore the deepest parts of our oceans is attractive to elite amateur explorers like those aboard the Titan, said Paul Johnstone, a member of the Smithsonian Scientific Diving Control Board, a U.S.-based research institute.

 

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