![]() “I felt like every time (the vessel) goes down, it’s going to get weaker and weaker. “It was looking more and more like we weren’t going to be the first guys down to film the Titanic - we were going to be maybe the 10th," Weed said of the possible Titan expedition. Weed said Rush was a charismatic salesman who really believed in the submersible's technology - and was willing to put his life on the line for it. There also was an engineering concern that the hull would not maintain its effectiveness over the course of multiple dives. He provided a mostly favorable report, but warned that there wasn't enough research on the Titan's carbon-fiber hull, Weed said. They were barely 100 feet (30 meters) deep in calm water, which begged the question: “How is this thing going to go to 12,500 feet - and do we want to be on board?" Weed said.įollowing the aborted trip, the production company hired a consultant with the U.S. “But he was trying to make light of it, trying to make excuses.” “You could tell that he was flustered and not really happy with the performance,” Weed said. Rush, the OceanGate CEO, tried rebooting and troubleshooting the vessel on its touch screens. They quickly encountered problems: The propulsion system stopped working. Weed and his colleagues were preparing to join OceanGate Expeditions to film the famous shipwreck later that summer. Weed went on a Titan test dive in May 2021 in Washington state's Puget Sound as it prepared for its first expeditions to the sunken Titanic.
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