2023-06-24 13:19:00
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The ongoing operation is now focused on recovering minor parts of the submersible with underwater robots to clarify how the implosion occurred.
24 jun 2023 . Updated at 1:19 p.m.
The mourning has begun and the press conferences are over, but not the search. The monumental international operation carried out by at least three countries to attempting to rescue the five crew members of a Titan submersiblewho was touring among the remains of the Titanic It included nine American, Canadian and French ships, some of which have already withdrawn from the area. Others, however, are still in the area.
After announcing on Thursday that they had found evidence of a accident so catastrophic that there could have been no survivorsUS Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger reported that demobilization would take place in the next 24 hours. The Pentagon estimates that it cost tens of thousands of dollars an hour, so the final bill will be estimated at several million. A P3 Orion turboprop plane, a P8 Poseidon with underwater capabilities, and a C-13 Hercules scanned the sea surface for debris, hoping the submersible would surface with its occupants. Now what will prevail will be remotely operated underwater robots that will continue to descend to the bottom of the sea in search of other minor parts of the Titan. His subsequent analysis will allow for a detailed report on the implosion that ended the voyeuristic experience of scrutinizing the remains of the sunken cruiser in 1912.
The keys to understanding why the Titan submersible imploded
Glauber Senarega
Search device off the Canadian coast DPA va Europa Press | EUROPAPRESS
An industry in question
It is a point of pride for the diving industry, which prided itself on not having had a similar accident in half a century. And there was a reason for it. Industry standards were rigid, it was a matter of life and death that the founder of OceanGate despised. I want to be remembered as an innovator, said Stockton Rush in an interview for a documentary on Mexican television. He was so convinced that going down to 3,800 meters to the bottom of the sea in his Titanera was safer than crossing the street, that he even went so far as to affirm that he himself piloted the ship and thus became the victim of his own reverie. In any case, no one doubts that he firmly believes in what he said. Another thing is that he was right. His submersible was made of carbon fiber and titanium, materials that weren’t exactly approved for those depths. because with each dive the screws opened a little more, until the fatal implosion occurred. The fact that both the bow and the stern, which protected the cabin, were found scattered at a great distance attests to what happened.
Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate who died on the Titan submarine: I have broken some rules to make this possible
A ship, dangerous?
The wealthy families of the victims, however, will face a complex case if they want to take it to court, because each crew member signed a three-page document mentioning the possibility of death up to eight times. However, if they show that OceanGate was aware that the vessel was dangerous, that discharge sheet could lose its legal validity. I think it was General MacArthur who said “they will remember you for the rules you have broken,” recalled the businessman. I think I have broken them with a good engineer. Carbon fiber and titanium? Yeah, there’s a rule that you can’t do that and I did, brag.
But submersibles are usually built with steel, not carbon fiber, no matter how aerospace grade it was. In addition, this eliminated the need to purchase the very expensive and durable synthetic foam used for submersibles. By choosing the rules you want to break, you add value to others and to society, he explained with conviction. It is not known how much of all this he came to find out young Suleman Dawood, but his aunt Azmeh has said in various interviews that he was terrified for the journey his father, Pakistani-born billionaire Shahzada Dawood, was embarking on. This 19-year-old boy accepted the experience at the bottom of the sea in a claustrophobic cabin because it was Father’s Day in the US Both of them would share something that would unite them forever: death. From the outside, those who knew the industry had no doubt from the first moment that the submersible had succumbed to the pressure of the sea. Film director James Cameron, a lover of the Titanic who has made 33 dives to its remainsIn addition to an Oscar-winning film, he told the BBC that with the technology they were using he would never have gotten into that submarine. OceanGate shouldn’t have been doing what it was doing, I think that’s pretty clear, he added. The Titan was not certified because they knew it would never pass the process, he said.
The young man who died with his father in the Titan submarine told his family that he was terrified of the trip
a great masquerade
Shortly after the connections with the mother ship that had taken it to the wreck were interrupted, a sophisticated military acoustic detection system that the US Navy has used since World War II to monitor the oceans detected a large explosion, according to what was published. this Friday the newspaper The Wall Street Journal. The Navy communicated this to the Coast Guard, which could not make it public so as not to compromise national security. The coastguards then decided to continue the search as a rescue operation which, in Cameron’s opinion, turned into a great masquerade, because we all knew what had happened.
Since the news of the explosion captured by the sensors spread among the small circle of maritime explorers, the countdown of the 96 hours of oxygen that was attributed to the ship irritated many. We knew instantly that the game was up, Cameron recounted. I felt it was prolonging a nightmarish masquerade in which people went around talking about clangs and oxygen going out, the filmmaker now laments. In the same week that three countries pooled their most sophisticated resources to rescue five millionaires, a humble boat with more than 700 immigrants sank off the coast of Greece. The US Coast Guard is not allowed to burden families with the cost of its operations, because life is priceless. Other government agencies will only do it, when an invoice is closed that will be millionaire.
The occupants of the Titan submarine: the other five lives claimed by the Titanic
The families of the victims could sue the New York firm
The long sheet of downloads that Titan passengers signed to exempt its owner, the OceanGate company, from any liability in the event of an accident may not serve the company to protect itself against possible lawsuits from the families of the victims. That will depend, to a large extent, on the details revealed by the investigation into the cause of the disaster, but legal experts have already put the possibility of filing a complaint on the table.
If there were aspects of the design or construction that were concealed or if it was operated despite information that (the ship) was not suitable for diving, that would absolutely defeat the validity of the exemption, says Matthew D. Shaffer. , lawyer and expert in Maritime Law with an office in Texas. The relatives of the five victims have not yet ruled on a possible lawsuit, but it is also not known if OceanGate has enough funds to assume hypothetical compensation or even if it has an insurance policy.
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