were over the craft s unusual design. it s non spherical state, effectively, the reliability of the material it was made of, carbon fibre, and the fact that it also not answer any external, independent testing process. the bbc has been given a e mail exchange between stockton rush, the ceo of oceangate who died in the incident, and a leading deepwater explosion specialist. the e mails sent in 2018. rob mccallum warns stockton rush. he went on. a few days later, oceangate s stockton rush replied. he told rob mccallum. guillermo, the former co founder of oceangate. .. the next day, rob mccallum replied, in starkest terms, i think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic. right, let s get more on this right now. our science correspondent jonathan amos is standing by. this is quite a stark exchange of e mails? it this is quite a stark exchange of e-mails? , ,., , , , e-mails? it is polite but it is very testy. one e-mails? it is polite but it
e-mails? it is polite but it is very testy, one has to say, lewis, - e-mails? it is polite but it is very testy, one has to say, lewis, if. e-mails? it is polite but it is very l testy, one has to say, lewis, if you redo the whole exchange. should just describe who rob mccallum is. he is one of the world s leading subversive experts. the first time humans had been to all five of the deepest points in the world s oceans, he knows precisely what he is talking about. and he is essentially critical of stockton rush s approach to safety and the way that he has designed that sob, which we now know it imploded very close to the titanic on sunday, and those concerns, as you were saying, centring on the shape, the unusual carbon fibre construction and also the certification process, the idea that a third party comes in and runs the rule over your. gives you a piece of paper and says, it is as good as it can be. stockton rush s point is, that is not a
the french robot, this is crucial as well, it has movable arms and it can go deep to the very bottom of the ocean, it can potentially untangle the vessel if it happened to be caught in some sort of debris. at this point a lot of questions are being asked about the company oceangate who are behind the sabic also the risks taken in this expedition, what have we learned about that? backin have we learned about that? back in 2018 there were some court documents filed here in the us and it had to do with a lawsuit that involved a former employee who has alleged that there were some concerns regarding safety not only at the company 0ceangate but also recording the vessel itself, having to do with the carbon fibre construction, this employee had raised some concerns and had called for outside verification and later that employee was let go by the company. we also know via the new york times that there was an outside body of deep sea