Memorial University signed an agreement with OceanGate promising students and faculty opportunities ‘to join OceanGate expeditions to support research endeavours’
A research institute at Newfoundland and Labrador’s Memorial University threw open its “proverbial doors” last year to the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible, less than a year before the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion while diving to the Titanic shipwreck.
After a frantic, days-long international search, a crew guiding a remotely operated vehicle spotted the submersible’s wreckage about 500 metres from the Titanic’s bow, almost four kilometres below the ocean’s surface. OceanGate founder and chief executive officer Stockton Rush died along with the four passengers on board.
A student from the Marine Institute was aboard the Polar Prince when the Titan was lost, but the institute said that was part of a summer job with OceanGate, not a work term connected to the school. In late November, an OceanGate representative said in an email to Singleton and Clarke that there was considerable excitement in the company over the weekend, as a special feature about the Titan’s 2022 journey to the Titanic had aired on CBS News in the United States.
Deep-diving experts had been issuing warnings about Titan’s shoddy construction and lack of certification for years. In 2018, a group of engineers wrote a letter to Rush warning that the company’s “experimental” approach could have catastrophic consequences.
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