Collin Taylor, a retired financier who made the $250,000 voyage to the shipwreck site last July, said he and other passengers were trained in the safety techniques as they descended to the ocean’s…
Colin Taylor, a retired financier who made the $250,000 voyage to the shipwreck site last July, said he and other passengers were trained in the safety methods as they descended to the ocean’s floor.
“There’s a whole raft of redundant systems and safety mechanisms,” Taylor said during an interview in Newfoundland, Canada. “For example, the weights — we’re trained in this as we go down — to drop the weights to go back to the surface. You flip a button or press a button on the surface of the screen,” he said.
“If, for whatever reason, that doesn’t work there’s a manual system … At some point in time, there’s an automatic system that kicks in that forces [the sub] back up,” he said. His comments came before authorities announced that the missing submersible, which disappeared Sunday, was believed to haveColin Taylor said he and other passengers were trained in safety measures aboard the sub on last year’s trip.Debris from the wreckage discovered on the ocean floor is “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” the US Coast Guard announced Thursday.
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