The search continues for the tourist sub diving ob the Titanic….as the story unfolds more and more information about this little sub has come out…..

A CBS Sunday Morning segment on OceanGate’s Titanic-touring submersible, originally aired in November, has now gone viral as it highlights the “MacGyvery jerry-rigged-ness” of the vanished vessel. Reporter David Pogue went inside the sub, where OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush—among five people now locked inside the missing capsule—showed him lighting purchased from Camping World and a modified gaming controller used to steer the vessel. “I couldn’t help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised,” Pogue commented. Rush countered that OceanGate worked with Boeing and NASA in creating the capsule itself.

Yet in a clip viewed 21.6 million times on Twitter in two days, Pogue reads from a waiver he was required to sign before going on a test dive, which describes the sub as an “experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death,” per Deadline. In 2018, dozens of industry leaders warned that OceanGate’s decision to forgo an inspection and certification could lead to “catastrophic” problems, the New York Times reports. OceanGate’s director of marine operations at the time claimed the company was “unwilling to pay” for such an assessment. It now charges up to $250,000 per ticket to the Titanic.

Pogue knew the risks. “I stayed up all night the night before my dive,” he tells CBS in a new interview. “I’ve never done anything that could kill me before and I was really, really scared.” He adds Rush assured him the vessel would maintain an oxygen supply and had seven different ways of reaching the surface. “So why haven’t they come to the surface?” Pogue asks. He says Rush told him he would be in real danger if the capsule sprung a leak or got snagged, but that that was very unlikely. However, author and reporter Dr. Michael Guillen recalled thinking he would die when a submersible he used to visit the Titanic in 2000 temporarily got stuck between the wreck’s stern and propellers, per Yahoo.

Would you go on an ‘adventure’ that required such a document be signed?   A “experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death”

There was so much that is being learned I ask why if these tourist were so smart why did they not do a little research….oh that’s right they have subordinates to do that for them….too bad they did not think to ask.

By the time I post this the operation will probably have gone from rescue mission to one of recovery.

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