There are several safety measures that may have helped the five people aboard the doomed submarine Titanic to save lots of themselves, a former OceanGate occupant said on Thursday – although they likely failed to stop the reported deadly “implosion”.
Colin Taylor, a retired financier who made the $250,000 trip to the crash site last July, said he and other passengers were trained in safety methods when descending to the ocean floor.
“There’s a whole bunch of redundant security systems and mechanisms,” Taylor said during an interview in Newfoundland, Canada.
“For instance, weights – we’re trained to try this once we go down – to drop the weights and are available back to the surface. You flip a button or press a button on the surface of the screen,” he said.
“If for whatever reason it doesn’t work, there’s a manual system… In some unspecified time in the future, there’s an automatic system that turns these forces on [the sub] step back,” he said.
His comments got here before authorities announced that the missing submarine that disappeared Sunday likely suffered a “catastrophic implosion”, possibly killing everyone on board.
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Debris from a wreck discovered on the ocean floor is “consistent with a catastrophic lack of a pressure chamber,” the US Coast Guard announced Thursday.
Earlier, industry experts and an worker reported irregularities concerns in regards to the safety of the ship — partially because OceanGate selected to not certify it by groups just like the American Bureau of Shipping and Det Norske Veritas in Europe.
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Taylor, who said he recently dined with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, called his nine-hour voyage to the Titanic “inspiring” but said he feared for the lives of the people on board.
“I’m obviously very, very concerned,” he said.
Rush, billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman were killed immediately when Titan imploded under the pressure of the Atlantic Ocean, authorities said on Thursday.