The Marine Institute and OceanGate signed a partnership in early 2023, but it remains unclear if the Memorial University campus knew the ill-fated Titan submersible was unregulated, unclassed and uncertified.
The Marine Institute is a post-secondary institution in St. John's focused on oceans and marine research. It signed a memorandum of understanding with OceanGate Expeditions in early 2023.
There was one student on board the support vessel Polar Prince when the Titan imploded. The person had been hired by OceanGate for the summer. "It absolutely did [give them legitimacy]," he said. "When you support something like that, the rest of society will imagine that somebody must have checked and therefore it's good."
Submersible experts had problems with Rush's approach to innovation and believed he was putting lives at risk by selling seats to amateurs who might not know what they were getting into. Titan was built with a carbon-fibre hull instead of the industry standard titanium. Its communications systems often failed. Its movements were governed by a PlayStation controller."It is not proper nor fair to expect public citizens to do their own due diligence," he said.
When asked about his comments, a spokesperson for Marine Institute said Singleton was speaking hypothetically.CBC News obtained thousands of pages of documents showing conversations between Rush and leaders at Marine Institute leading up to the MOU being signed. The documents are heavily redacted, citing exemptions for advice provided to public institutions.
Along with storage space and the possibility for internships and research, Marine also agreed to promote "ocean literacy, technology exploration and the blue economy" by highlighting OceanGate's submersible and expeditions.
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