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.
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.
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.