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News comes on the day it became known that the operator had already had a scare with the Titan on one of the trips to the Titanic. Renata Rojas, a Mexican diver who was on the submersible at the time, told the BBC: “I thought, ‘We’re not going to make it’. We’re literally 300 meters away from the Titanic and we can’t go anywhere but go around in circles.”
The company that operated the submersible Titan, which imploded during the voyage to the wreckage of the Titanic, announced this Thursday that it has stopped all activities indefinitely. Last week, remains of the remaining wreckage of the submersible were found and taken to the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland, eastern Canada. According to information published on the company’s website, “all exploration and commercial operations were suspended” after the tragedy in which the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, was among the dead.A previous huge scare
This announcement comes on the same day that it was also known that, in a previous dive of the submersible Titan, the pilot had already lost control when the propellers failed, which meant that the device was limited to going in circles, in great depth Read more at Diário de NotíciasThis post is also available in: Português
