Read previewAn early passenger on OceanGate's Titan submersible didn't realize how close he was to experiencing the "catastrophic" failure that sealed the vessel's fate in 2023 until a year after the incident.
In April 2019, Karl Stanley, a fellow submersible expert, joined his peer, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, near the Bahamas to take a dive in an early iteration of the Titan vessel.
Stanley, Rush, and two other passengers successfully plunged more than 12,000 feet — a depth that closes in on the Titanic's wreckage, which sits at the bottom of the Atlantic at about 12,500 feet.
According to Wired, this defect forced Rush to delay the trip to the Titanic and build another Titan submersible.
"I just surfaced from a 4-hour dive," Stanley wrote to BI on Thursday.
Persons:
—, Karl Stanley, Stanley, Rush, Rush —, he's, Stockton, Guillermo Söhnlein, would've, wasn't, Söhnlein, Karl
Organizations:
Service, Stockton Rush, Business, Wired, Expeditions, OceanGate Expeditions, AP, BI, Rush, Titan, US Coast Guard, OceanGate
Locations:
Bahamas, Honduras