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Titan passenger says OceanGate CEO told them to SLEEP when they got stuck at bottom of Atlantic
MSN ^ | July 4, 2023 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo

Posted on 07/06/2023 6:08:52 AM PDT by Red Badger

A man who was once a passenger on the doomed Titan submersible has claimed that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush suggested the crew sleep on the vessel overnight while they were stuck at the bottom of the Atlantic.

Jaden Pan's 2021 expedition took a terrifying turn when the Titan's battery died just over two hours into its descent to the Titanic wreck on the ocean floor.

Speaking to the BBC last year, the videographer recalled the moment Rush told the passengers that the battery had gone 'kaput.'

Rush reportedly told passengers they needed to go back to the surface when they were within two football fields' distance of the legendary ship wreckage.

'At first, I thought he was joking because we were over two hours into our expedition and so close to the bottom,' Pan told the BBC.

'But then he explained that one of the batteries went kaput and we were having trouble using the electronic drops for the weights, so it would be hard for us to get back up to the surface.'

As Rush tried to solve the issue, he reportedly offered the passengers to go to sleep as the vessel sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

Once the vessel's weights dissolved after 24 hours, the submersible would be able to rise to the surface.

Half the crew, including Stockton, said they would be okay sleeping at the ocean's floor. However, the other clients were not willing to spend the night under the ocean.

Eventually, Rush managed to use hydraulics to drop the weight and the vessel floated back up safely with everyone on board.

The CEO was seen on the BBC report telling the crew they were going to be down for another '16 to 24 hours.'

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: canada; implosion; oceangateexpeditions; stocktonrush; sub; titanic
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To: Secret Agent Man

There will be lawsuits, I guarantee.

He had to have known it was unsafe, and didn’t care.....................


41 posted on 07/06/2023 7:33:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: NorthMountain

Designed and built by people who get their news from Comedy Central...................


42 posted on 07/06/2023 7:34:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

There are small subs classified to “full ocean depth” (36k feet) with the pressure chambers tested to 150% in labs without a single loss for decades. They are incredibly expensive and only have two chairs in a very cramped cockpit full of *manual* switches/valves for redundant systems (not just a touchscreen and game controller).

The classified subs that go this deep are not suitable for tourists at all and this shmuck was trying to go around every safety consideration to make it so...


43 posted on 07/06/2023 7:34:41 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga

He wanted fame and fortune.

He got fame.....................


44 posted on 07/06/2023 7:37:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Just what was he suppose to tell them to do? Get out and push?

This entire thing is bizzare.

45 posted on 07/06/2023 7:38:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: CommerceComet
They are not designed for sightseeing tourists

Evidently, neither was the Titan.

46 posted on 07/06/2023 7:41:40 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: armydoc

Magnets.


47 posted on 07/06/2023 7:42:09 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

Anyone can build a submersible, it’s the re-surfaceable part that is hard.


48 posted on 07/06/2023 7:42:23 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Bizarre to the max.....................


49 posted on 07/06/2023 7:45:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Farmerbob

When I was a kid I thought about using an old LP Gas tank as a submarine...................


50 posted on 07/06/2023 7:46:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: jaydubya2

The failure to obtain certifications was the big issue brought up by his lead engineer…who got fired for exposing it in writing.


51 posted on 07/06/2023 7:47:13 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Red Badger

Live on the edge, fall off the edge.


52 posted on 07/06/2023 7:55:34 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Red Badger

There were a lot of things that went wrong which got them in that situation. That said, being in that situation, it was a perfectly reasonable response and course of action.


53 posted on 07/06/2023 8:09:41 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Red Badger

“Go to sleep...” = quit whining, conserve O2.


54 posted on 07/06/2023 8:27:15 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Red Badger

The US Navy, Russia, and France have 2-person spherical submersibles which will go deeper than that. I think there are also privately owned ones, like the one James Cameron went to the Titanic 35 times on. The Russians were doing something similar, selling rides down to the Titanic, but they could only take one tourist at a time. Rush’s “innovation” was to make a larger cylindrical submersible which takes more tourists at a time.


55 posted on 07/06/2023 8:27:25 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.


56 posted on 07/06/2023 8:34:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Sirius Lee; Red Badger

Total psycho.

But - A “Princeton Man” so there’s always that going for him ,except he’s still a dead total psycho.


57 posted on 07/06/2023 8:34:56 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: Secret Agent Man

“The rest of the industry doesn’t do what Srockton Rush did.”

Working in the aviation maintenance field for 36 years, because of the obvious concern for air crew safety, we had a saying....the Russian proverb made famous by former US President Ronald Reagan “trust but verify”.

Since crew safety IMO is just as critical when going beneath the waves, especially in the light of what has now happened, I’ll stick with my belief that the whole industry needs indepth critical oversight and review.


58 posted on 07/06/2023 9:31:53 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

I keep wondering if they were stowing the submersible outside between trips. The carbon fiber does age rapidly when exposed to sunlight.


59 posted on 07/06/2023 9:37:48 AM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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To: Clay Moore

I bet they did.

With no tarps..................


60 posted on 07/06/2023 9:40:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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