Two days of reporting and testifying by experts during a U.S. Coast Guard inquiry challenge the idea that the submersible’s passengers knew they were facing death.
An image, released by the U.S. Coast Guard and Pelagic Research Services, of the tail cone of the Titan submersible resting at the bottom of the ocean.
The crash of the Dali into the Francis Scott Key Bridge killed six people. The federal government says the owner and the operator were “grossly negligent” and “reckless.”
At a U.S. Coast Guard hearing, a pilot described a disastrous trip in which OceanGate’s founder got a submersible stuck under a shipwreck and then threw the controls at his head.
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, was unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 2023.
Former employees of the company, OceanGate, said they worried about its practices long before a fatal implosion that killed five people. A Coast Guard hearing resumes on Tuesday.
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