2023-06-22 14:59:31
While the North American, Canadian and French forces fight against the clock and in search of a miracle to save the lives of the five occupants of the Titan submarine, missing since Sunday – almost two hours after submerging towards the remains of the Titanic in the North Atlantic-, more details are being learned about OceanGate, the marketing company for this trip, the characteristics of the submarines and what these expeditions are like.
The company, which operated in international waters, markets the experience for 250,000 euros but did not meet the minimum safety conditions established for this type of vessel.
The Titan was not certified, it did not have a support boat and it did not have a safety cable that would ascend the minisub in case of any problem. During these agonizing days of searching, there have been many who have recounted her experience on previous trips. The Mexican Alan Estrada made the same expedition in 2022. This youtuber explained that the ship has a protocol during the descent with which the crew is obliged to abort the mission and return if it loses communication with the plant for a certain time.
However, this does not usually happen. Screenwriter Mike Reiss, producer and writer of “The Simpsons,” is a regular on OceanGate voyages. In 2022 he participated in one of the visits organized by the company to visit the stranded ocean liner at the bottom of the sea at a depth of about 4,000 meters. The experience, he told CNN, was totally disconcerting “You almost always lose communication and find yourself at the mercy of the elements.” Reiss explained that everyone knows the risks he takes by hiring these OceanGate expeditions. As he described, they are forced to sign a document in which “the word death appears three times on the first page of the contract” and in which they exempt the company from any responsibility in the event of any accident. “It’s not a coach holiday, something can go wrong,” he said.
Once inside the device, he recalls, all sorts of things happen that jeopardize mission success: “When we got to the bottom, the compass immediately stopped working and just spun around. We had to scramble blindly at the bottom of the device. ocean, knowing that the Titanic was somewhere down there.” “But everything is so dark that even the biggest thing 500 meters away was hard to find. It took us 90 minutes to find the Titanic.”
The “Simpsons” writer was not optimistic because “I know the logistics. And I really know how vast the ocean is and how tiny the ship is. So the idea is, if it’s in the deep end, it’s not I don’t know how anyone will be able to access it, let alone re-upload it,” he said.
Reiss’s hope is that the submersible has been able to ascend to the surface or to a depth not too shallow.
Another prediction from “The Simpsons”
As it already happened in many unthinkable events, The Simpsons had already foreseen it and long before Reiss decided to go down to see the remains of the Titanic. We must go back to a chapter of January 8, 2006, in which Homer embarked on an underwater expedition to explore a shipwrecked ship, in a clear reference to the Titanic. Now, a review almost two decades later shows the similarities between fiction and reality. In the chapter, they talked about a term that has been crucial in recent hours: determining the survival of the submarine crew through oxygen levels. In the episode, Homer’s capsule becomes trapped in the dark abyss of the sea and is warned about fluctuating oxygen levels until it finally runs out. The hope is that the search for the titan ends in the same way as the installment of the series: With the rescue of Hommer alive.
Everyone is on edge as the Titan’s oxygen is running low and rescue forces have yet to find the underwater vehicle. On board are pilot Paul Henry Nargolet, the CEO of OceanGate; Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and British billionaire Hamish Hardin
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