Bisnis.comJAKARTA- Submarine Titan Towers at Shipwrecks Titanic failed a test dive in 2021 and three trips were canceled the previous year.
During Insider’s launch on Monday (7/10/2023), former Titan passenger Brian Weed told Insider that the submarine failed the 2021 dive test because the thrusters stopped working. , stuck underwater for more than two hours and never went deeper than 100 feet.
Tests on the submarine at the Deep Ocean Test Facility, part of the United States Naval Academy (US), also revealed that its carbon fiber hull “showed signs of cyclic fatigue” at from lower depths, according to GeekWire.
OceanGate would then have to cancel Titanic dives in 2018, 2019 and 2020, according to the report.
Titan’s success in reaching the depth of the Titanic wreck is also relatively low, being only around 14%. Of the 90 dives or circuits, only 13 reached the depths of the wreck of the Titanic.
The Titan submarine reached the depths of the Titanic wreck on 13 out of 90 dives, the passenger waiver said.
According to Reuters, a search party from the ship Titan found human remains and wreckage of a tourist submarine that was blown to pieces in an underwater explosion that killed all five people on board.
The wreckage found on the seabed was brought ashore in Canada on June 28, 2023 according to United States (US) Coast Guard officials.
The wreckage of the Titan submarine, destroyed during a dive in the century-old wreck of the Titanic, is brought to St. Petersburg. John’s, Newfoundland, approximately 400 miles (650 km) from the crash site of the Canadian-flagged Arctic Horizon Ship.
The evidence will be transported by the Coast Guard to U.S. ports for analysis and testing by a Marine Investigations Committee, which the Guard convened this week to conduct a formal investigation into Titan’s disappearance, the agency said.
American medical professionals carried out a formal analysis of the alleged human remains which had been carefully recovered from the rubble at the scene.
Canadian Broadcast Corp video shows the submarine’s nose and other wreckage wrapped in white tarpaulin being pulled by a crane from the deck of the Arctic Horizon early Wednesday (6/28/2023).
Footage also shows fragments of the Titan’s hull and engine with dangling cables recovered from the ship in St. Louis. John’s, where the Titanic expedition began.
An examination of the wreckage should shed light on the cause of the catastrophic explosion that destroyed Titan earlier this month when the 22ft vessel was carrying five people on a voyage to the wreckage of Titanic in the Atlantic North.
The Canadian Transportation Safety Agency (TSB), which led the investigation, said its investigators had completed initial interviews with the crew of the Canadian-flagged support vessel Polar Prince Titan and seized the tape recorder from vessel voyage data.
The TSB also said it had “examined, documented and cataloged” all material recovered from the crash site before handing it over to US authorities.
The wreckage of the submarine, which lost contact with the Polar Prince about an hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour descent on June 18, 2023, was found strewn across the seabed at about 1,600 feet ( 488 meters) from the bow of the Titanic four days later.
The discovery by a robotic deep-sea dive vehicle exploring the ocean floor for more than 2 miles (3 km) ended a multinational search that attracted worldwide media attention and confirmed the fate of the five people on board.
Those who died were: Stockton Rush, submarine pilot and CEO of the American company OceanGate Expeditions, which owns and operates Titan. Also, British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58; Pakistani-born entrepreneur Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son, Suleman; and 77-year-old French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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