The submersible likely suffered a"catastrophic implosion" based on debris located 1600 feet from the wreckage of the Titanic, according to the Coast Guard. The five passengers aboard the experimental deep-sea vessel"have sadly been lost," according to the submersible company OceanGate Inc.
"The state-of-the-art vessel, designed and engineered by OceanGate Inc. in collaboration [with] experts from NASA, Boeing and the University of Washington, made its subsea debut in 2018," OceanGate Expeditions -- the Bahamas-based company that operates U.S.-based OceanGate Inc. submersibles -- said about the Titan submersible on its now inaccessible website.
Victor Balta, a UW spokesperson, added that OceanGate and UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory initially signed a $5 million collaborative research agreement, but the two entities “parted ways” after only $650,000 of work was completed. That research only resulted in the development of another OceanGate submersible, the shallow-diving Cyclops I submersible, according to Balta.
“No UW researchers were involved in any of those tests and UW personnel did not provide any verification or validation of any OceanGate equipment as a result of those tests,” Balta said in a statement. OceanGate also made repeated statements in press releases about its involvement with NASA, including thanking the entity for design and engineering support.
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