Titan company co-founder says goal was to create fleet of subs
Guillermo Sohnlein helped found OceanGate with Stockton Rush, who was among the five people who died when the Titan submersible imploded.
Guillermo Sohnlein helped found OceanGate with Stockton Rush, who was among the five people who died when the Titan submersible imploded.
It's been more than a year since OceanGate's ill-fated expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic in the Titan submersible resulted in five deaths. This week, a Coast Guard investigation of what happened got underway. During four days of testimony, new details have emerged.
The scientific director for OceanGate testified that the Titan sub malfunctioned only days before the deadly dive.
David Lochridge, OceanGate's former operations director, told Coast Guard officials he had warned others about potential safety concerns affecting the submersible that imploded near the Titanic wreck in 2023. Lochridge said his concerns were dismissed. CBS News' Roxana Saberi reports.
The Titan imploded on June 18, 2023, setting off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration.
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OceanGate has suspended all exploration and commercial operations in the aftermath of the Titan sub implosion.
Investigators are hoping to find answers about what happened in the fateful moments after the sub lost contact.
Debris from the Titan submersible which imploded last week near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people aboard, has been recovered, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the Titan submersible, which imploded with five people on board while attempting a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic. Roxana Saberi has the latest.
"Sunday Morning" correspondent David Pogue talked in Summer 2022 with the man behind the creation of the submersible that catastrophically imploded, killing five, during a June 2023 dive to the wreck of the Titanic.
David Pogue, who rode in the same underwater vehicle that perished last week, looks back on the controversial submersible, and his conversations with the man who built it.
This week a submersible carrying passengers to the site of the wreck of the Titanic disappeared in the North Atlantic; all five aboard perished in a catastrophic implosion. Correspondent David Pogue, who rode in the same underwater vehicle last year, reports on this latest disaster, and looks back on his interviews with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and deep-sea explorer P.H. Nargeolet, who were among those killed.
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