in the immediate aftermath, right? absolutely. let s bring in cnn business correspondent christine romans. cnn senior legal analyst elie honig and retired u.s. coast guard captain boynton. you left off with anderson, the fact that the u.s. coast guard appears to be sticking around, what does that mean to you in terms of any potential criminal investigation? i haven t spoken directly with the coast guard. i am retired now. but i am watching what they are doing through reporting and the reporting i have heard suggests that they are remaining involved in some capacity the recovery. when i heard that i thought, that s interesting because the coast guard is not a salvage agency. so normally they don t do that. and when i heard that, i thought sounds like there is an investigation underway. but as i said before, we are on the boundary here. we are in international waters. we are not investigating something that is on the surface or happened on the surface and not just on the bottom, it s
about these things, and one aspect is full disclosure. just tell the public this is not certified, this is experimental, and then it will leaves some of the decisions to people who make. are you willing to go into this. yeah. well, i appreciate you joining us on this sad morning. thank you very much. it is a sad morning. thank you very much. back to you in new york. rahel, that s one of the things that james cameron talked about last night. he has made experimental submersibles he has gone in but he wouldn t bring passengers in unless something had actually been gone through rigorous safety protocols. yeah, a significant difference from those two specific cases. i want to bring captain boynton back in. you had a thought listening to that interview. what crossed your mind there? just listening to it, it s been years since i read the coast guard guidance documents. if memory serves, i could swear
to take it in and make it part of their lives. i don t think that s you know, i don t think there s anything wrong with that. some people don t like they say it s a gravesite and that sort of thing, but i think it s important for us to remember, but here is a case starkly where the collective we didn t remember the lesson of titanic, these guys at oceangate didn t, because of the arrogance and the hubris that sent that ship to its doom is exactly the same thing that sent those people in their sub to their fate. i think it s heartbreaking. i think it s heartbreaking that it was so preventable. retired u.s. coast guard captain peter boynton is with us. i wonder what you think about what james cameron was saying there. do you think the lessons were ignored, were forgotten and people will learn them again this time. i think it s tragically ironic that here at the same place two incidents book ending a century between them, the titanic absolutely innovative in
thank you very much. back to rahel and phil in new york. also, i want to bring in retired u.s. coast guard captain peter boynton. captain, i m wondering what your reaction is to, you know, the use of boeing, university of washington repeatedly by this company. it certainly it helps people, made people feel like, you know, these were reputable organizations. it certainly seems like there is questions about how involved they actually were. yeah. you know, i think for most people who are passengers, maybe not everyone, but most people just can t expect them to have the technical know-how to evaluate on their own the safety of a conveyance, whether you are getting on an aircraft, whether you are getting into a vehicle, whether you are going on a vessel or a submersible. so that s, you know, equivalent of stamp of approval, i think is critical. experimental craft is one thing. carrying passengers for hire is another.