An explorer who had signed up to be on the missing Titanic submersible said he opted out of the perilous journey because the company running the pricey voyage didn’t seem like a “professional diving operation.”
in the North Atlantic since Sunday said he opted out of the perilous journey to and from the site of the Titanic wreckage because OceanGate, the company running the pricey voyage, didn’t seem like a “professional diving operation.”
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday, Chris Brown offered several specifics as to why he decided against joining the trip. “This one, there seemed to be a lot of risks that were outside of my control and I didn’t like the way that they were being approached by the company,” Brown said, claiming that OceanGate’s submersible “continuously missed”' its depth targets that were supposed to be met by certain dates. According to Brown, the craft hadn’t even been 300 meters below the surface in 2018. The Daily Beast has not independently verified this claim.“There was industrial casing being used as ballast.
“It didn’t come across as a professional diving operation to me. So I took the decision to withdraw my deposit and to get off the program at that stage,” Brown said of the choice he made in 2018. Earlier that year, a report by the company’s director of marine operations stressed that the submersible required additional safety tests, and warned of “the potential dangers to passengers” in “extreme depths,”
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