“I didn’t have a good feeling about it,” a Discovery Channel cameraman said. “It was a really hard choice to make.”
FILE - OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush emerges from the hatch atop the OceanGate submarine Cyclops 1 in the San Juan Islands, Wash., on Sept. 12, 2018. By BEN FINLEY and HOLLY RAMER, The Associated Press
They quickly encountered problems: The propulsion system stopped working. The computers failed to respond. Communications shut down.“You could tell that he was flustered and not really happy with the performance,” Weed said. “But he was trying to make light of it, trying to make excuses.” Weed said Rush was a charismatic salesman who really believed in the submersible’s technology — and was willing to put his life on the line for it.“It was looking more and more like we weren’t going to be the first guys down to film the Titanic — we were going to be maybe the 10th,” Weed said of the possible Titan expedition. “I felt like every time goes down, it’s going to get weaker and weaker. And that’s a little bit like playing Russian roulette.
Reiss said he went on three trips with OceanGate in waters near New York City — and that the company took safety seriously. “I don’t know if that’s an equipment failure or because magnetism is different two and a half miles down,” he said.Arnie Weissmann, editor in chief of Travel Weekly, never rode in the Titan despite spending a week aboard its support ship in late May, waiting for the weather to clear. He briefly climbed into the submersible, but the dive was ultimately canceled.
But he also was a strong leader, said Weissmann, who recalled Rush leading lengthy planning meetings and urging anyone who was interested to read a book called “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” that he left in the ship’s lounge. If a repair was complex, Weissmann said Rush would tell those assigned to it to pause for five minutes after completing it to make sure it was done correctly.
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Previous passengers recall ill-fated Titan: 'I 100% knew this was going to happen'Talk to someone who went on previous trips on the Titan submersible and they’re likely to mention a technology glitch
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Previous passengers recall ill-fated Titan: 'I 100% knew this was going to happen'Talk to someone who went on previous trips on the Titan submersible and they’re likely to mention a technology glitch.
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Previous passengers recall ill-fated Titan: 'I 100% knew this was going to happen'Talk to someone who went on previous trips on the Titan submersible and they’re likely to mention a technology glitch.
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Previous passengers recall ill-fated Titan: 'I 100% knew this was going to happen'Talk to someone who went on previous trips on the Titan submersible and they’re likely to mention a technology glitch. The propulsion system failed or the communications with people on the surface cut out. They are also likely to mention Stockton Rush. He's the OceanGate Expeditions CEO who died this week on the sub. Rush has been described as both a meticulous planner and an overconfident pioneer. In the wake of the Titan’s fatal implosion Sunday near the Titanic shipwreck, some passengers from previous expeditions described concerning experiences that foreshadowed the tragedy. Still, others felt they were in “good hands” deep below the ocean’s surface.
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Previous passengers recall ill-fated Titan: ‘I 100% knew this was going to happen’In the wake of the Titan’s fatal implosion near the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday, some people who embarked on the company’s deep-sea expeditions described experiences that foreshadowed the tragedy.
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Follow the timeline of the Titan submersible's journey from departure to discoveryThe wrecks of the Titanic and the Titan sit on the ocean floor, separated by 1,600 feet and 111 years of history
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