Red flags made explorer rethink OceanGateSub Titanic trip
that he examined"the risks involved" after paying an early deposit for a seat on the Titan in 2017. Brown said that he canceled his trip after noticing that OceanGate was repeatedly missing important depth benchmarks for the submersible.
"By the end of 2018 ... they still hadn't reached depth of 300 meters," he added."The [Titanic] wreck is at 3,800 [meters]." "Industrial casing was being used as ballast, they've got like an Xbox controller for steering it," Brown said."The parts seemed off the shelf. And it just seemed like, you know, if you wanted to try and figure a way of getting across a river, 'let's strap a bit on here.'"
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