Five men died when a submersible bound for the wreckage of the titanic imploded. Today, unexplained, a deep sea explorer and a friend of one of the passengers tells us that he saw this coming. A massive search operation is underway to find the missing, tightened, submersible 900 miles east of Cape Cod,. The vessel was meant to go on an eight to ten hour dive, taking two hours to reach the site because it's underwater.
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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