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As the desperate search for the submersible continues Titanwho disappeared on Sunday after leaving for the wreckage of the titanicseveral passengers who contracted the same underwater exploration service with the OceanGate company give their testimonies about what the maritime journey is like up to 3,800 meters deep.
“You have to be a little crazy to do this kind of thing”he told reporter Frank Jordans of The Associated Press, Arthur Loibla 61-year-old retired businessman and adventurer from Germany.
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loibl told the AP that he had his first idea of seeing the remains of the titanic during a trip to the South Pole in 2016. He found out that a Russian company offered dives for half a million dollars.
But in 2019, after Ocean Gate announce explorations to titanicpaid $110,000 for a dive, which ultimately ended in failure because the first submersible did not pass the tests.
Only in 2021 was he able to make a successful trip, together with the executive director of Ocean GateStockton Rush, French diver and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet and two men from England.
It should be noted that Rush and Nargeolet are currently among the five crew members of the missing in the Titan.
“Imagine a metal tube a few meters long with a sheet of metal for a floor. You can’t stand it. You can’t kneel. Everyone is sitting next to each other or on top of each other.”counted loibl on the inside of the submersible. “You can’t be claustrophobic.”
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loibl recalled that during the 2.5-hour descent and ascent, the lights were turned off to conserve power, and said that the only lighting came from a fluorescent light bar.
There was also a problem with the battery and balance weights, so the dive was repeatedly delayed. His trip lasted a total of 10.5 hours.he told the AP.
About Rushthe owner of Ocean Gate, loibl He said it was a handler who tried to make do with what was available to perform the dives.
“I was a bit naive, looking back now… It was a kamikaze operation,” acknowledged.
The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal also spoke with former passengers of the Titan.
They told that the risk of death during the immersion is mentioned several times on the first page of the authorization they had to sign.
Mike Reissscreenwriter of The Simpsonhas made four dives to the titanic. when she spoke to The Wall Street Journalnarrated the one he did in July 2022. He recalled that the risk of death is present all the timebut that in the worst case he could take comfort in the knowledge that he had a good life.
Reiss63, said she never felt claustrophobic at any time.
He recalled that after its descent, the submersible was about 500 meters from the remains of the Titanic. The ship’s compass didn’t work. and it took the crew more than 90 minutes to find the ocean linerso they only had about 20 or 30 minutes to explore its remains.
Mike Reiss He also spoke with Univision. He said that on every trip he made with OceanGate “there was a problem, at least sporadically, to communicate with the surface. I don’t think it’s his fault so much as the nature of the beast. You know, when you go 1,000 feet or 13,000 feet underwater, you’re going to lose contact for a while.”
Reiss referred to the contract that is signed and where mentions the word “death” repeatedly. “You sign a massive resignation that somehow indicates that you could die on the journey. So when I got on the sub I thought this could be the end. No one in that situation is caught by surprise. You know what you’re getting into: how vast the ocean is and how tiny this ship is.” explained in an interview with the BBC.
joseph worthman53 years old and CEO of a heating company in the city of Detroitmade the trip in 2021. He told The Wall Street Journal that being inside the Titan It is a true lesson in humility.
“It is an experience to the limit… If something happens there is no way out. You can’t call 911 and you have to fix yourself.”
It should be noted that the Titan submersible can only be opened from the outside.
worthman remembered that the submersible it descended for several hours, during which they listened to music while watching the luminescent creatures through the ship’s only window. Also he said he helped with communications, exchanging text messages with the surface team.
“The submersible reached the wreckage of the Titanic and approached the stern. Wortman remembers his excitement at learning he was one of the few people in the world who had seen the wreck up close, though he says the experience was unsettling at times. In fact, the first thing he did when he got to the surface was call his family to tell them that everything had gone well,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Journalist David Poguea correspondent for CBS’s Sunday Morning, traveled on the Titan last year at the invitation of Ocean Gate.
pogue showed The Wall Street Journal a part of the authorization that he had to sign: “This operation will be carried out inside an experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body,” says the text. “Traveling in and around this vehicle can cause physical injury, disability, emotional trauma, or death”add.
He told that he submersible it has a rudimentary toilet that is actually a bag and bottle.
“You are sitting on the floor with your back against a curved wall. There is no heating or cooling… on the surface you die of heat and deep down you die of cold,” he said.
Regarding the authorization that he signed, Pogue said that this “lists literally eight ways one can die or become permanently disabled”.
Regarding the destination of the passengers of the submersible missing, pogue told Univision that “the scenery is really scary. They may be alive on the surface, floating, running out of air and unable to get out.”
“Before going, we had never seen the submersible, I didn’t know anything about it. There is very little information on the website. I didn’t know at the time that you drive the thing with an Xbox game controller. I didn’t know the thing was, you know, used construction pipe, you just get there and then you start seeing this stuff, and your mood crashes and you get a little worried,” she said.
“You are screwed from the outside. There are 18 bolts in a circle around the hatch, and by the way, they only held 17 of them. The 18 is very high and they say that there really is no mathematical difference “continued.
David Pogue also said that the Titan it has seven different functions to allow you to rise to the surface. So he thinks it’s “really worrying” that none of them have worked so far.
He acknowledged that during their trip they were lost for more than two hours.
Another key aspect that complicates the recovery of the Titan is that GPS doesn’t work underwaterNeither did the radio.
“When the support ship is directly over the submarine, they can send short text messages from side to side. Clearly, they are no longer getting a response,” Pogue said.
The Mexican allan estrada is a content creator for YouTube. On his channel he has documented the journey he made on the Titan.
In an interview with Telemundo, he acknowledged that there is no type of training before the dive. “What there is is a document that you sign and where they let you know all the risks you are involved in,” she said.
He also stated that during the trip the submersible lost communication at a depth of 1,000 meters and that after a certain time, it was decided to abort the dive. But they were immediately able to recover communication and continued with the trip.
Source: Elcomercio
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