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☆ OceanGate, Operator of the Titan Submersible, Suspends Operations
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Christine Hauser | More About Christine Hauser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

OceanGate Expeditions said it had “suspended all exploration and commercial operations” after its Titan submersible presumably imploded during a dive to explore the wreckage of the Titanic last month, killing the company’s founder and four other people. The company, which is based in Everett, Wash., made the announcement at the top of its website, above footage of previous Titanic explorations and a link to learn more about how to “explore the world’s most famous shipwreck.”It was not clear when the message was added to the company’s website. There were no further details from the OceanGate, which did not immediately respond to an email. On board the lost submersible were Stockton Rush, 61, the founder and chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, who was piloting the vessel; Hamish Harding, 58, a British businessman and explorer; Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, a French maritime expert; Shahzada Dawood, 48, a British Pakistani businessman; and his son, Suleman, 19.

Persons: Hamish Harding, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Organizations: OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush Locations: Everett, Wash, British, British Pakistani

☆ Christine Dawood, whose husband and son died aboard the Titan sub, recounts her husband's eagerness to photograph the ocean floor: 'He was like a vibrating toddler'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Christine Dawood recounted to The New York Times the excitement that her husband had for the Titan trip. "He was like a vibrating toddler," she told the Times of her husband, businessman Shahzada Dawood. Christine lost her husband along with their son, 19-year-old Suleman Dawood, during the ill-fated expedition. "He was like a vibrating toddler," Christine told the newspaper of her husband. Christine told the Times.

Persons: Christine Dawood, Shahzada Dawood, Christine, Suleman Dawood, —, Hamish Harding, Paul, Henri Nargeolet —, Suleman, Shahzada, OceanGate Christine Organizations: The New York Times, Times, Service, Stockton Rush, Nikon, Titan, Titanic, US Coast Guard, The Times Locations: British

☆ Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Matina Stevis-Gridneff | Karam Shoumali | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In Greece, nine Egyptian survivors from the Adriana were arrested and charged with smuggling and causing the shipwreck. In sworn testimonies and interviews, survivors said that many of the nine brutalized and extorted passengers. At least one of the men charged with being a smuggler had himself paid a full fee of more than $4,000 to be on the ship. The women and young children went down with the ship. Setting SailKamiran Ahmad, a Syrian teenager, a month shy of his 18th birthday, had arrived in Tobruk, Libya, with hopes for a new life.

Persons: Adriana, Ahmad Locations: Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Syrian, Tobruk, Libya, Germany

☆ Spanish archaeologists plan rescue of 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] A diver from Valencia University maps and assesses the state of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician vessel that is submerged 60 meters from the beach of Mazarron, Spain, June 20, 2023. Jose A Moya/Regional Government of Murcia/Handout via REUTERSMADRID, June 30 (Reuters) - A group of Spanish archaeologists have made detailed diagrams of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician shipwreck to help work out how best to recover it from the sea before a storm destroys it forever. Later this year, the experts will recommend how to protect and retrieve the wreck, possibly as early as next summer. It now lies under about 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) of crystal-clear Mediterranean water, surrounded by sandbags and a metal structure built for protection. Reporting by Emma Pinedo, editing by Inti Landauro and Philippa FletcherOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jose A Moya, Carlos de Juan, Emma Pinedo, Inti Landauro, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Valencia University, Regional Government of, REUTERS, University of Valencia, University of Valencia - Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Mazarron, Spain, Regional Government of Murcia, Handout, REUTERS MADRID, Spanish, Murcia, la, Lebanon, Syria

Some also said the tragic end, when it came, was precipitated by the actions of the Greek coastguard. after a Greek coastguard vessel attached a rope to the bow of the trawler and began to pull it while picking up speed. The shipping ministry, which oversees the coastguard, told Reuters it couldn't comment on issues that were the subject of a confidential and ongoing investigation by prosecutors. Nikos Spanos, a retired admiral in the Greek coastguard, told Reuters it was unlikely that a coastguard vessel would have attempted such a dangerous manoeuvre as towing the stricken trawler. Three survivors told authorities they paid anywhere from 50 to 200 euros ($55-220) extra for places on the outer deck, considered safer.

Persons: Stelios Misinas, Adriana, haven't, Mohamed, Nikos Spanos, Renee Maltezou, Jonathan Saul, Riham, Rachel Armstrong, Pravin Organizations: Hellenic Coast Guard, REUTERS, Greek coastguard, coastguard, Reuters, GO, Thomson Locations: Greece, Kalamata, KALAMATA, North Africa, Italy, Greek, GO ITALY, Pylos, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Tobruk, Europe, Tunisia, Libya, Athens, London, Berlin

☆ 10 inventors who died from their own invention, creation, or discovery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Elias Chavez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Stockton RushSubmersible pilot Randy Holt communicates with the support boat as he and Stockton Rush dive in the company's submersible. The loss of the submersible launched a search-and-rescue mission that had the Navy, Coast Guard, and even "Titanic" filmmaker James Cameron involved. The search lasted for five days until the Coast Guard announced on June 22 that the submersible had imploded 1,600 feet away from the Titanic shipwreck. The US Coast Guard has convened a Marine Board of Investigation to look into the cause of the implosion — the highest level of investigation by the organization, according to CNN. In emails between Rush and Stanley after the test, Stanley warned Rush of the dangers of being impatient.

Persons: Randy Holt, Wilfredo Lee, Rush, James Cameron, Karl Stanley, Stanley Organizations: Stockton Rush, AP Rush, Navy, Coast Guard, US Coast Guard, Marine Board, Investigation, CNN, Titan, Rush, , New York Times Locations: ,

OTTAWA, June 28 (Reuters) - Debris from the tourist submersible destroyed in an implosion that killed the five people aboard were recovered along with presumed human remains and brought ashore on Wednesday for examination, the U.S. Coast Guard said. U.S. medical professionals also "will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident," the Coast Guard statement added. Footage also showed a shattered piece of the Titan's hull and machinery with dangling wires being taken off the ship at St. John's, where the expedition to the Titanic had begun. [1/6]A view of the Horizon Arctic ship, as salvaged pieces of the Titan submersible from OceanGate Expeditions are returned, in St. John's harbour, Newfoundland, Canada June 28, 2023. Among the dead was Stockton Rush, the submersible pilot and CEO of U.S.-based OceanGate Expeditions, which owned and operated the Titan.

Persons: David Hiscock, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, OceanGate, Ismail Shakil, Steve Gorman, Deepa Babington, Leslie Adler Organizations: OTTAWA, U.S . Coast Guard, Canadian, Coast Guard, Guard, Canadian Broadcast Corp, OceanGate Expeditions, REUTERS, Canada's Transportation, Stockton Rush, Expeditions, Thomson Locations: St, John's, Newfoundland, Canada, U.S, North, British, Ottawa, Los Angeles

☆ 3 reasons why the Titanic will never be raised
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Titanic sank in 1912, and ever since people have wanted to salvage it. Its lack of structural integrity is just one of three main reasons why the Titanic is destined to remain sunk forever. The Titanic wreck site is a gravesiteApproximately 1,500 people lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. "NOAA recognizes the Titanic wreck site as a maritime memorial and supports Article 4(1) of the 'Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel R.M.S. "Captain's bathtub is a favorite image among the Titanic enthusiasts, and that's now gone," Titanic historian Parks Stephenson said in a statement in 2019.

Persons: it's, —, Daniel Stone, Monica Allen, James Cameron, who's, Eva Hart, rusticles, Halomonas, Lori Johnston, Clare Fitzsimmons, Captain Edward Smith's, that's, Parks Stephenson, Xavier Desmier, Charles Smith, Ethan Miller Organizations: Service, NOAA, Titanic Inc, CBS News, New York Times, Titanic, Institute for Exploration, University of Rhode, Materials, USA, Newcastle University, BBC, Costa Concordia, Architectural Locations: Britain, University of Rhode Island, Las Vegas, Luxor, It's

☆ A former Titan passenger said Stockton Rush didn't follow 'the crowd' – but safety was the 'most important thing' for OceanGate
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ex-Titan passenger Aaron Newman said safety was "always the most important thing" for OceanGate. "The thing that he may be guilty of was not following the crowd," Aaron Newman told Fox Business. A man who went on the Titan submersible two years ago said safety was "always the most important thing" for OceanGate — even if the company's CEO Stockton Rush didn't always follow "the crowd." "Safety is an incredible priority and was always the most important thing there," said Newman, who was also friends with Rush. Former passengers of the Titan sub have spoken out about their experiences on the sub since its "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber."

Persons: Aaron Newman, Stockton Rush's, Stockton Rush didn't, Maria, Newman, Rush, OceanGate, Wendy, Mike Reiss, Arthur Loibl Organizations: Fox Business, Titan, Stockton Rush, CNN, BBC

☆ Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis wins repeat election, securing clear parliamentary majority
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Elinda Labropoulou | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of Greece’s center-right New Democracy party, has won a second four-year term as prime minister. During his election campaign, Mitsotakis vowed to further extend a 35-kilometer fence at the Greek-Turkey border, to block migrants trying to enter Greece. Fueled by May’s initial election results, Greek bonds and stocks have rallied with optimism that a pro-investment government could prevent financial backsliding. Other fringe far-right entries to the race included the nationalist party Greek Solution and the ultra-religious, anti-abortion Niki. “But despite the populist cacophony, Mitsotakis’ strong victory provides the new government a clear mandate to govern.”

Persons: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mitsotakis, ”, “, Syriza, “ Mitsotakis, Nick Malkoutzis, ” Mitsotakis, Alexis Tsipras –, –, Tsipras, Wolfgango Piccoli, Vassiliki Georgiadou, Ilias Kasidiaris, Niki Organizations: CNN, Democracy, New Democracy, PASOK, KKE, Panteion University, Spartans, Nazi, Freedom Locations: Greece, Pylos, Turkey, Europe, New, Athens, Golden

☆ Voice recordings and data from the mother ship that carried the Titanic-bound submersible before it imploded will be examined, investigators say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Nouran Salahieh Samantha Beech | Nouran Salahieh | Samantha Beech | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“The content of those voice recordings could be useful in our investigation,” Fox said. Communications between the submersible and its mother ship will also likely be scrutinized. The ship could communicate with the submersible by text messages, and it’s required to communicate every 15 minutes, according to the archived website of OceanGate Expeditions. The vehicles will work to map out the vessel’s debris field, which is more than 2 miles deep in the North Atlantic, Mauger said. When asked for comment about Stanley’s email, a spokesman for OceanGate told CNN they were unable to provide any additional information at this time.

Persons: ” Kathy Fox, John’s, ” Fox, John Mauger, Hamish Harding, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman, Kent Osmond, OceanGate, Guillermo Sohnlein, ” Sohnlein, “, Mauger, Paul Hankins, Jeff Mahoney, Mahoney, Rush, Karl Stanley, ” Stanley Organizations: CNN, Transportation, Board of Canada, US Coast Guard, Stockton Rush, OceanGate Expeditions, Communications, Titan, Getty, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP, National Transportation Safety Board, US, Guard, Salvage Operations, Ocean Engineering, Research Services, Deep Energy, Rush, “ Locations: St, Newfoundland and Labrador, British, French, AFP, Bahamas

☆ Greeks vote in repeat election, likely to return conservatives to office
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mitsotakis's New Democracy party won an election on May 21, 20 points clear of the leftist Syriza party that ruled Greece from 2015 to 2019. Mitsotakis, prime minister since 2019, stepped down in favour of a caretaker premier after the inconclusive vote last month, as required by the constitution. The boat had been shadowed by the Greek coast guard before it sank: the coast guard has said that the occupants refused all offers of help. Mitsotakis, whose administration has taken a hard stance on migration, said "wretched traffickers" were to blame for the disaster and praised the coast guard for rescuing people. Tsipras has questioned why the coast guard did not intervene earlier.

Persons: Kyriakos, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, Mitsotakis, Tsipras, Michele Kambas, Frances Kerry Organizations: Greek, New Democracy, REUTERS, Democracy, Thomson Locations: Athens, Greece, Stoyan, ATHENS, Libya, Italy, Europe

[1/24] New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks to supporters outside the party's headquarters, after the general election, in Athens, Greece, June 25, 2023. Fringe parties of the political left and right - including an anti-immigrant party calling themselves the Spartans - got a foothold in parliament. The system used in Sunday's poll gave the leading party bonus seats depending on voter support. The Spartans party, which said Greece was threatened by uncontrolled migration, was the surprise of the campaign. It was set to gain 4.7 of the vote and up to 13 seats in parliament, based on the early results.

Persons: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Kyriakos, Mitsotakis, Tsipras, Zoe Constantopoulou, Plefsi Eleftherias, Giorgos Katzimertzis, Ilias Kasiadiaris, Gina Kalovyrna, Michele Kambas, Renee Maltezou, Lefteris, Frances Kerry, Emelia, Giles Elgood, Mark Porter Organizations: New Democracy, REUTERS, Syriza, Spartans, European Union, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Athens, Greece, ATHENS, Kasidiaris

☆ Fact Check-Titanic tourist sub was not found intact after 55 hours
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

While search and rescue efforts were still ongoing, social media users shared old images of the sub alongside false claims that it had been found 55 hours after it went missing and that all passengers were alive and in need of medical attention. The photos offered as evidence, however, were online before the sub disappeared. The debris field with pieces of wreckage corresponding to the missing sub was found more than 100 hours after the vessel first stopped communicating (here). Ahead of the Coast Guard's confirmation, OceanGate Expeditions issued a statement saying that the crew on board the Titan had “sadly been lost” (here). The Titan submersible was not found intact after it went missing on June 18.

Persons: Hamish Harding, Harding, Read Organizations: OceanGate Expeditions, . Coast Guard, Facebook, Twitter, Action Aviation, Reuters Locations: British

☆ Russian Court Rejects Appeal of WSJ Reporter’s Detention
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Titanic Submersible Still Missing, Search Efforts Continue Rescuers are racing against time to find five people who are missing after a submersible disappeared while on an expedition to the remains of the Titanic shipwreck. Photo: OceanGate/Abaca Press/Zuma Press

Persons: Abaca Press Organizations: Abaca, Zuma

☆ Amnesty accuses Spain and Morocco of cover-up over Melilla enclave migrant deaths
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Joan Faus | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BARCELONA, June 23 (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Friday accused Spain and Morocco of a cover-up for failing to properly investigate events at the border of the Spanish enclave of Melilla last year, when tens of migrants and refugees died during a mass attempted crossing. On June 24 2002, around 2,000 Sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees attempted to enter Spain's North African enclave from Morocco. Morocco said 23 people died in a crush when migrants fell from the fence, and Spain has said no deaths occurred on its soil. "One year on from the carnage at Melilla, Spanish and Moroccan authorities not only continue to deny any responsibility but are preventing attempts to find the truth," said Amnesty International's Secretary General, Agnes Callamard. Spain's Attorney General investigated the Melilla incident but declined to charge Spanish officers who he said had been unaware of the fatal crush.

Persons: Spain, Agnes Callamard, Callamard, Joan Faus, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: Amnesty, Human Rights, Spain's Interior Ministry, Spain's, Authorities, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: BARCELONA, Morocco, Melilla, Spain's, Spain, Spanish, Libya, Italy

☆ James Cameron: How the 'Titanic' director became a deep-sea explorer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Cameron, who is also the director of the Oscar-winning movie “Titanic,” has shared his perspective on the “catastrophic implosion” that killed five aboard the Titan submersible on its way to tour the Titanic wreckage. The youngster would also track a then new deep-sea submersible named Alvin. “It was such a golden age of technological exploration,” Cameron said of the time. Cameron told NPR in 2012 that there is a connection between what he does professionally in films and his personal life as an explorer. “But it has problems, because there’s no second take!”Record breaking explorationAlong with his exploring, Cameron fell in love with the technology that makes deep-sea diving possible.

Persons: James Cameron, Cameron, Oscar, ”, ” Cameron, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Jacques Cousteau’s, “, Playboy, ‘, there’s, Saul Loeb, Mariana Trench, Earth Cameron Organizations: CNN, Titan, National Geographic, Geographic, Getty Locations: Ontario, Canada

☆ 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.

Persons: Alan Estrada, Estrada, —, It's, OceanGate, Mike Reiss, Reiss Organizations: Titan, Daily Mail, Service, Reuters, US Coast Guard, CNN

☆ Greek migrant boat tragedy: CNN investigation raises questions about coast guard's account of shipwreck
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Florence Davey-Attlee Elinda Labropoulou Jomana Karadsheh Gianluca Mezzofiore Katie Polglase | Florence Davey-Attlee | Elinda Labropoulou | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

They also call into question the Greek coast guard’s version of events, suggesting more lives could have been saved, and may even point to fault on the part of Greek authorities. The Hellenic Coast Guard has declined to answer CNN’s specific requests for response to the survivor testimonies. The Greek coast guard has maintained that people onboard the trawler had refused rescue and insisted they wanted to continue their journey to Italy. The haunting final words sent from the migrant boat came just minutes before it capsized. Most of all, Mostafa says, he wishes the Greek coast guard had never approached their boat: “If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned.”

Persons: “, Rami, ”, Mostafa, Nikos Alexiou, Byron Smith, ” Rami, Lucky, –, ” Mostafa, Nawal Soufi, …, superyacht, Stringer, Eurokinissi, Vincent Cochetel, Stelios Misinas, Reuters Cochetel, ” Omer Shatz, Mohammad, Fadi, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mitsotakis Organizations: CNN, Hellenic Coast Guard, Reuters CNN, Cross, UNHCR, European Union, “, Getty, ” Workers, Reuters, Center for Constitutional, Human Locations: Greece, Syria, Greek, Coast, Athens, Tobruk, Libya, Italy, Kalamata, AFP, Berlin, Netherlands, Sunday’s, Europe

☆ 5 Deaths at Sea Gripped the World. Hundreds of Others Got a Shrug.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Richard Pérez-Peña | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On one vessel, five people died on a very expensive excursion that was supposed to return them to the lives they knew. On the other, perhaps 500 people died just days earlier on a squalid and perilous voyage, fleeing poverty and violence in search of new lives. After contact was lost with the five inside a submersible descending to the Titanic, multiple countries and private entities sent ships, planes and underwater drones to pursue a faint hope of rescue. That was far more effort than was made on behalf of the hundreds aboard a dangerously overcrowded, disabled fishing trawler off the Greek coast while there were still ample chances for rescue. The submersible accident, at the site of a shipwreck that has fascinated the public for more than a century, would have captivated people no matter what.

From the start, the plan had been to push boundaries — to go where no one had gone before, as Richard Stockton Rush III liked to say. One partner was experienced in start-ups and passionate about “making humanity a multiplanet species.” The other, Mr. Rush, was an aerospace engineer and investor with a family fortune. Rush founded OceanGate Expeditions, the company whose submersible is presumed to have imploded during an expedition to the Titanic, killing Mr. The founders’ goal for OceanGate, Mr. Sohnlein said, was to make deep-sea voyaging as accessible to wealthy tourists and researchers as entrepreneurs like Elon Musk had made space travel.

Persons: Richard Stockton Rush III, Rush, ” Guillermo Sohnlein, ’, Sohnlein, Elon Musk, ”, “ Organizations: OceanGate Expeditions, OceanGate, Elon, SpaceX

☆ What is a catastrophic implosion? What to know about the Titan submersible disaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —What was supposed to be a 10-hour journey to the Titanic shipwreck ended in tragedy, with all five passengers on the missing submersible killed in a catastrophic implosion. An underwater implosion refers to the sudden inward collapse of the vessel, which would have been under immense pressure at the depths it was diving toward. It’s unclear where or how deep the Titan was when the implosion occurred, but the Titanic wreck sits nearly 13,000 feet (almost 4,000 meters) below sea level. The submersible was about 1 hour and 45 minutes into the roughly 2 hour descent when it lost contact. But the submersible had only been equipped with 96 hours of oxygen, setting Thursday as a key target to locate and retrieve the submersible.

Persons: Rick Murcar, Aileen Maria Marty, “, ” What’s, ”, Tom Maddox, It’s, OceanGate, Stockton, ” Rush, Rush, Hamish Harding, Paul, Henri “, Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Dawood Hercules, Hussain Dawood, Kulsum Dawood Organizations: CNN, US Navy, Titan, National Association of Cave, Naval, Florida International University, US Coast Guard, Forensic Investigators, Maritime Horizon Services, Maritime, Navy, OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, Princeton, United Arab Emirates, Action Aviation, Titanic Inc, French Navy, Dawood Hercules Corp Locations: Newfoundland, Canada, British, French

☆ The career rise of 'Avatar' and 'Titanic' director James Cameron
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Travis Clark | Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

James Cameron recently addressed the implosion of a Titanic-bound submersible that killed 5 people. Cameron told ABC News that he has visited the shipwreck on his own expeditions 33 times. CBS via Getty Images; Steve Granitz/FilmMagicIn June 2023, a submersible owned by diving company Oceangate, which was carrying five people to see the Titanic shipwreck at around 13,000 feet under the surface, lost contact with its mothership. Years before the expedition, experts, including OceanGate's own director of marine operations, had raised concerns about the safety of the vessel. In another interview with CNN, Cameron said he knew "in my bones" that the submersible had imploded before it was announced.

Persons: James Cameron, Cameron, Steve Granitz, I'm, — Organizations: ABC News, CBS, Getty, US Coast Guard, CNN

☆ Fact Check-Fake CNN report claims missing Titan sub was discovered empty
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CNN did not publish an article saying that OceanGate’s Titan submersible vehicle that went missing on June 18, 2023 was recovered empty, a spokesperson for the U.S.-based media company said. A screenshot of the CNN headline claiming the sub was recovered after three days is fake, the CNN spokesperson said. CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn said in a June 22 email: “This a fabricated image and not something CNN reported.”The photo attached to the fake report also does not show the missing Titan, but a different submersible called the Cyclops 1 (here). The search for the missing Titan sub in the North Atlantic has expanded and entered a fifth day on June 22 with only hours of the vehicle’s presumed air supply remaining, Reuters reported (here). CNN did not publish a June 21 news report claiming that the missing Titan submersible had been discovered empty.

Persons: Emily Kuhn, Read Organizations: CNN, U.S, Facebook, Twitter, Reuters, Titan

☆ What is OceanGate? Meet the company that made a business out of risky deep-sea tours of the Titanic shipwreck.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The company has attracted renewed scrutiny since its submersible vessel, Titan, went missing Sunday. In 2018, OceanGate faced a lawsuit from former employee David Lochridge, who said he warned about quality and safety issues related to the Titan vessel. The Titanic shipwreck expeditionsOceanGate has been conducting expeditions of the Titanic ship wreckage since 2021, according to the company's website. When reached for comment, a spokesperson for OceanGate told Insider the company was "unable to provide any additional information at this time." What is the OceanGate Titan?

Persons: OceanGate, Rush, David Pogue, David Lochridge, Pogue, Peter Girguis, Mike Reiss, Reiss Organizations: Stockton Rush, Rush, Morning, OceanGate Expeditions, Titanic, Smithsonian Magazine, Princeton University, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, University of California, The Seattle Times, Smithsonian, CBS, Titan, US Navy, BBC Locations: Everett , Washington, Pitchbook, St, John's, Newfoundland, OceanGate, Harvard

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