The tourist submarine that went missing while surveying the wreck of the Titanic was the subject of concerns from experts and observers over its design and lack of certification by any kind of marine regulatory body.
Titan, a Cyclops-class manned submersible, was designed and built by OceanGate, Inc., for"site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep sea testing of hardware and software," according to the company. While it has been touted by the company as a state-of-the-art machine, experts and observers expressed concerns about several technical features.
OceanGate is open about its lack of a DNV-GL classification, which is meant to assure"ship owners, insurers, and regulators that vessels are designed, constructed, and inspected to accepted standards," according to the company's website. Its reasoning for eschewing classification was the claim that the classification process was too lengthy, and smothered innovation.
"You know, at some point, safety is just pure waste," he said."I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed, don't get in your car, don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question." Pogue also read out the waiver passengers have to sign, which warns that the vessel “‘has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, motion trauma, or death.'”
To be clear, I was not on the sub that day—I was on the ship at the surface, in the control room. They could still send short texts to the sub, but did not know where it was. It was quiet and very tense, and they shut off the ship’s internet to prevent us from tweeting.
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