The Risk of Death in a Titan Submersible

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There was a lawsuit brought by someone who was fired after he raised concerns about the research and development that was going on. Concerns were also raised by engineers from the Marine Technology Society over the experimental approach adopted by Ocean Gates. The real problem as his death is a temperature because water temperature is 33 degree or something like that. If you are in the sub and nothing is running anymore, making some eat after a while, you die because of the cold.

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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