Families mourn deaths after Titan submarine implosion

Relatives and friends lamented this Friday (23) the deaths ofIt is five people inbecause that one submarine imploded in the North Atlantic Ocean during a dive to the inwreckage of the Titanic.

The accident raised questions about the rules in security for such adventures in the depthsinfrom the ocean.

You inwreckage of the submersible Titan, who was indisappeared insin Sunday (18), were indetected on Thursday (22) by a robotic vehicle in dive launched in a reed shipinnse, as part in an international initiative in rescue.

the remains of submersiblewhich perinu contact a ship on the surface approx. in 1 hour and 45 minutes inbecause of inscida, that init would last 2 hours, were indiscovered at the bottom of the sea, about in 488 meters from the bow of the inwreckage of the Titanic, 4 km below the surface, said US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger.

He told reporters on Thursday that the indebris was consistent with “a catastrophic implosion of the vehicle”.

The five who died included Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the submersible and charged $250,000 per person to make the tripin of Titanic. The American was flying the inbarge.

The others were British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding, in 58 years old; O inPakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulinan, 19 years old; and the French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77 years old.

Guillermo Söhnlein, co-founder of OceanGate with Rush in 2009, said Rush was “deeply aware” of the dangers in explore the depthsinfrom the ocean.

“Stockton was one of the managers in shrewdest risks I’ve ever known,” said Söhnlein, who inleft the inprey in 2013, maintaining a minority stake. “He was very averse to the risk.”

The British explorer of TitanicDik Barton, paid homagein to the work in his friend Nargeolet, but noted issues raised with the insign and maintenance of inbarge. “Everybody knows inbecause of the event, but as we heard before, unfortunately there were many bansinred irises here,” he said.

Source: CNN Brasil

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