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☆ An actor who traveled on the Titan submersible said the vehicle had battery issues and lost contact with its host ship for hours during the dive
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An actor who was on the Titan submersible said the craft suffered a communication failure. Alan Estrada told the Daily Mail the craft lost communication with its vessel ship for two hours. Despite the issues, Estrada told the news outlet he was made aware of the risks of the dive before he traveled. On Sunday, five people taking the same trip went missing after the submersible lost communication with its surface vessel two hours into its descent. Mike Reiss, who has taken four dives with OceanGate's Titan, said there were communication issues on his trips.

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☆ OceanGate Expedition: Debris scattered across ocean floor could provide clues into the final moments of the Titanic-bound submersible
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe Rob Frehse | Elizabeth Wolfe | Rob Frehse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“Those of us in the community that work at that depth know that that’s always a risk,” Sohnlein told CNN. “I’ve broken some rules to make this,” Rush told travel blogger Alan Estrada of the Titan in 2021. Victims grieved as intrepid adventurers, beloved family membersFrom left, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Stockton Rush. Bill Diamond, a friend of Shahzada Dawood, told CNN Wednesday that his friend was intelligent and perpetually curious. He said he didn’t think of Shahzada Dawood as an adventurist but believes he was aware of the Titan trip’s risks.

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☆ Stockton Rush: What we know about the Titan submersible's pilot
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Rush has approached his dream of deep-sea exploration with child-like verve and an antipathy toward regulations — a pattern that has come into sharp relief since Sunday night, when his vessel, the Titan, went missing. But in 2004, he told Smithsonian, the dream shifted after Richard Branson launched the first commercial aircraft into space. “I had this epiphany that this was not at all what I wanted to do,” Rush told the magazine. The commercial sub industry is “obscenely safe” he told Smithsonian, “because they have all these regulations. He also asked Rush about what the vessel’s “MacGyvery” components — like the plastic PlayStation controller and LED lights that Rush bought from an RV retailer.

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