'Every trip I've taken, there was a problem': Former Titan Titanic travellers reveal issues

 

you steer the ship with a a controller

with that joystick from a gaming system

you know a home gaming system there's

special training just to learn how to

get into an escape suit

in and out of that it's it's a very

tough thing to get into these kind of

warm weather coveralls uh that will

float you if you know you have to bail

from a ship or escape from the submarine

beyond that no real training when we

went down it was there were

communication problems on every trip

I've taken of the four separate Dives

I've taken went Ocean Gate every time

there was a problem with at least you

know sporadically communicating with the

surface and again I don't think that's

their fault as much as just that's the

nature of the Beast you know when you're

going a thousand feet or 13

000 feet under water you're gonna lose

contact for a while

before we went we had never seen the sub

we didn't know anything about it there's

very little information on the website I

didn't know at that point that the that

you drive the thing with an Xbox game

controller I didn't know that the

ballast was you know used construction

pipes uh and then you get the tour and

Stockton Rush the designer of the sub

the CEO explains to you that all of this

stuff the lights and the handles and the

propellers these are off-the-shelf Parts

because well not only are they

inexpensive but they're tried and true

they're mass-produced the part we care

about is the the pressure vessel the

capsule where the people are and that he

designed with NASA and the University of

Washington and uh that he says is as

locked down as it gets his exact words

were everything else can fail the lights

can go out the propellers can stop but

you will still be alive you were bolted

in from the outside there are 18 bolts

in a circle around the hatch and by the

way they only fasten 17 of them the 18th

one is way up high and they say there's

really no mathematical difference

um so you're right the really

nightmarish scenario is that they are

alive

at the surface bobbing away running out

of air and unable to get out

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