Военное обозрение By Alexander Mitrofanov
Continued. Part one: The Death of the Titan
In February 2018, at a conference on underwater exploration, prominent industry figures expressed growing concern about OceanGate’s practices and planned work. Many specialists, including a Russian expert with extensive experience diving the Titanic wreck, expressed alarm over the risks associated with OceanGate’s activities. Conference participants discussed the dangers of deep-sea exploration at the Titanic wreck site, particularly OceanGate’s seemingly careless approach, which does not meet industry standards for such risky deep-sea diving.
On May 29, 2019, during an inspection of the Titan prior to its next dive, a crack was discovered in the carbon fiber portion of the pressure hull that extended approximately four feet longitudinally and spanned about a third of the hull transversely.
The red circle marks the area of fatigue cracks in the pressure hull.
Following this, OceanGate cancelled the planned expedition to the Titanic (TITANIC Survey Expedition 2019), but concealed the true reason for this, citing the fact that the operator of the chartered support vessel refused to cooperate…
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