Category: submersible

Will the Titanic Sub Disaster Tank the Submersible Tourism Industry?

By Lebawit Lily Girma From Bloomberg News Annita Thomas felt nervous about her first small submersible dive in the Sea of Cortez, off California’s coastline, in April 2023. The worry dissipated quickly as the seven-passenger underwater vehicle dipped below the surface of the water, leaving behind the Scenic Eclipse discovery yacht from which her adventure…


Recovering the Titan 12,500 Feet Underwater Was Dangerous, Complex, Emotional

EAST AURORA, N.Y.—When Edward Cassano and his colleagues arrived in the remote stretch of ocean where the Titan submersible had gone missing, they quickly learned that they would have to do what other deep-sea experts had already tried unsuccessfully: to find the lost sub in some of the most forbidding depths of the North Atlantic….


LIVE NOW: Searching Company Ends Recovering Mission for Destroyed Titanic Submersible

Pelagic Research, the company that operates a robotic vehicle used in recovering the debris from the tourist submersible destroyed while diving into the century-old wreck of the Titanic, holds a press conference at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 30 to mark the end of the mission. …


Searching Company Ends Recovering Mission for Destroyed Titanic Submersible

Pelagic Research, the company that operates a robotic vehicle used in recovering the debris from the tourist submersible destroyed while diving into the century-old wreck of the Titanic, holds a press conference at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 30 to mark the end of the mission. …


RCMP, Transportation Safety Board Launch Investigations Into Titan Sub Tragedy

The RCMP will be doing a preliminary investigation into the deaths of five passengers aboard the Titan, an underwater Titanic tour submersible, while the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is also investigating the events leading to what officials believe was the sub imploding on June 18. “There’s no suspicion of criminal activity per se, but the…


Canada Is Investigating Why the Titanic-Bound Submersible Imploded

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Saturday that it’s conducting an investigation into the loss of the Titan submersible and has been speaking with those who traveled on Titan’s mothership, the Polar Prince. The development comes as authorities from the U.S. and Canada began the process of probing the cause of the underwater implosion…


Previous Passengers Recall Ill-Fated Titan: ‘I 100 Percent Knew This Was Going to Happen’

Talk to someone who rode on the Titan submersible, and they’re likely to mention a technological glitch: the propulsion system failed or communications with people on the surface cut out. Maybe there were problems balancing weights on board. They are also likely to mention Stockton Rush, the OceanGate Expeditions CEO who died on the fatal…


Looking Back, Sub Tourist Calls Himself ‘Naive’ for Taking 2021 Dive to the Titanic

BERLIN—As an international search determined the implosion of a vessel setting out for the underwater wreckage of the Titanic, a man who was one of the submersible company’s first customers characterized a dive he made to the site two years ago as a suicide mission. “You have to be a little bit crazy to do…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (June 22): 5-Person Crew on Missing Titanic Sub Presumed Dead: Coast Guard; Pres. Biden Hosts India’s Modi

The operator of a submersible vehicle that went missing while trying to view the Titanic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean said on June 22 it’s likely all five people on board have died, while U.S. Coast Guard officials said a “catastrophic implosion” likely occurred. During a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (June 22): 5-Person Crew on Missing Titanic Sub Presumed Dead: Coast Guard; Biden Hosts India’s Modi

The operator of a submersible vehicle that went missing while trying to view the Titanic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean said on June 22 it’s likely all five people on board have died, while U.S. Coast Guard officials said a “catastrophic implosion” likely occurred. During a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…