The known circumstances are limited: the submersible was “located pretty much exactly where it was supposed to be” and that the implosion took mere milliseconds, Mr McCallum said.
OceanGate set its sights on Titanic exploration around 2015; company co-founder Stockton Rush reached out to Mr McCallum, the magazine said. Worried, given its seemingly crude design and lack of redundant safety features, Mr McCallum told the magazine that “there were multiple points of failure”, including that its control system used Bluetooth. “Every sub in the world has hardwired controls for a reason – that if the signal drops out, you’re not f**ked.” The Cyclops I got stuck during a shallow-water test dive.
“I know that our engineering-focused, innovative approach flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation,” Mr Rush said. “Titan and its safety systems are way beyond anything currently in use.” OceanGate’s attorney allegedly threatened Mr Lochridge with legal action if he did not withdraw his Osha complaint and after months of fighting, agreed to do so. While Osha did apprise the US Coast Guard of Mr Lochridge’s complaint, “there is no evidence that the Coast Guard ever followed up”, the New Yorker reported.