Science in technology can bring about higher productivity, but it can also bring about better men for women. Who are the people who went inside this vessel and who paid $250,000 to go on this expedition? Aside from Stockton Rush, who we understand will probably have been piloting the vessel,. There is a British Pakistani businessman and his son, who is understood to have just finished his first year at university. Hamish Harding has got Guinness World Records for the longest and deepest dives in submersibles.
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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