G. Michael Harris is a Titanic expedition leader, explorer and the founder of RMS Titanic, Inc. Ocean Gate said that they weren't going to do that in a blog post in 2019 because the innovation and design is outside of an already accepted system. How did this happen? Some submersibles do take third party certifications; how was there no larger third party saying, guys, we got to make sure this thing is ship shape?
Deep-sea explorer G. Michael Harris has been down to the wreck of the Titanic 14 times. He begged his friend PH Nargeolet not to get on the OceanGate Titan submersible before it imploded in the sea earlier this week. He explains why he saw this coming.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and edited by Amina Al-Sadi. It was engineered by Michael Raphael and fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Noel King.
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