Ocean Gate's Deep Diving Submersible

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"I've been begging with them for two years. Do not get into that vessel and take it too titanic," he says of Ocean Gate's submersible. "We're in this little tiny six-foot ball, three grown men shoulder to shoulder for 18 hours or longer when we're doing salvage ops" He adds: "The technology and et cetera that's there, it's just we're not there yet."

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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