The co-founder of the company behind the Titan submersible has denied that the passengers on the craft qualified as “tourists” and said they were well aware of the danger of the voyage.
Guillermo Söhnlein, co-founder of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the craft, told the ABC that passengers on board the submersible would not “consider themselves tourists”.
All five people on board the Titan were killed. Debris from the vessel was located about 12,500 feet underwater and roughly 1600 feet from the Titanic on the ocean floor, the Coast Guard said last week.“They knew what they were getting into. And yeah, and it’s just, it’s a sad thing that they died doing something that they were passionate about.”
US maritime officials say they’ll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide.Investigators from the US, Canada, France and Britain are working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident, which happened in an “unforgiving and difficult-to-access region” of the North Atlantic, said US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger, of the Coast Guard First District.
“My primary goal is to prevent a similar occurrence by making the necessary recommendations to advance the safety of the maritime domain worldwide,” Neubauer said.in the port of St John’s, Newfoundland, in co-ordination with Canadian authorities.
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