Concerns were raised back in 2018 about the safety of a submersible vessel that has been missing since Sunday, when it descended with tourists on a deep ocean journey to view the wreckage of the T
, when it descended with tourists on a deep ocean journey to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Titan submersible is a 6.7m-long vessel operated by Everett, Washington-based OceanGate Expeditions. It first made a voyage dive to 4,000m in December of 2018, according to the company's website, and first dove to the site of the Titanic - which lies on the seabed at a depth of about 3,800m - in 2021. It planned to make 18 such dives this year.
On Jan 18, 2018, OceanGate employee David Lochridge forwarded to the company's leaders an engineering report he had authored that was critical of OceanGate's research and development process for the Titan, according to lawsuits Lochridge and OceanGate filed against one another that year. The company called a meeting the next day to discuss Lochridge's concerns, according to the lawsuits. At the conclusion of the meeting, Lochridge stated he could not accept OceanGate's design decisions and would not authorise any crewed voyage without further testing. He was then fired.
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