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‘I Told Him I’m Not Getting in It’: Former Titan Submersible Engineer Testifies
The US Coast Guard's OceanGate hearings started Monday with some startling revelations—including the last messages from the passengers.
A move to certify the vessel with an independent third party fell by the wayside, as did plans to test more scale models of the Titan’s carbon fiber hull when one failed early under pressure. He faced tough questioning about OceanGate’s choice of carbon fiber for a hull, and its reliance on an newly developed acoustic monitoring system to provide an early warning of failure. One former OceanGate engineer believes this supports the theory that the implosion was allegedly caused by damage to the carbon fiber there, perhaps from freezing water or lifting the sub without using the correct equipment, rather than a failure of the hull from pressure alone.
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