A submersible pilot warned that the industry risks being tainted by an 'extreme, out-of-the-norm' event involving a 'non-compliant player.'
The deep-sea tourism industry risks being viewed through the lens of a"one-off, extreme" incident involving a"non-compliant player," a pilot has said following the implosion of theOfer Ketter, a professional submersible pilot with 20 years' experience, has conducted explorations of deep-sea coral reefs, Roman shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and World War II wreckage in the South Pacific.
Ketter said he thought the incident would impact the submersible tourism industry, but added that"I believe it shouldn't," as there were"tens of thousands of dives that submersibles have done with zero incident." , to the Challenger Deep, to the deepest points of all the oceans; we've been down and back up repetitive times safely," he said.
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