of the titan sub were dismissed by the company s ceo. also on the programme: us presidentjoe biden and vice president kamala harris are joining the democratic national congress as well as other pro choice advocacy groups to mark one year after the us supreme court s decision to overturn its landmark 1973 ruling on roe v wade. and the tents have been pitched, the sun has been shining and now two hundred thousand people will spend the weekend enjoying some of the worlds biggest music stars. yep, it can only be glastonbury. tonight with the context, paul waugh chief political commentator for the i paper and jennifer carroll who was the former lieutenant governor of florida. hello to you both and will be taking us through our headline stories this evening. we start with those developments on the death of five people on board the submersible which went missing in the atlantic on sunday. canada s transportation safety board has announced an investigation because the titan s surfa
Now, as we mentioned earlier, the co founder of 0ceangate, the firm that built and operate,the titan submersible has rejected claims that it cut corners. guillermo sonhelm left 0ceangate ten years ago. he s been speaking to the bbc. the innovation outpaces the regulations and oftentimes, 0ne one of the issues that keeps coming up one of the issues that keeps coming up is that people keep equating certification with safety and are ignoring the 14 years of development of the titan sub. any expert who weighs in on this, including mr cameron, will also admit they were not there for the design of the sub, the engineering, the building of the sub and not the rigorous test programme the sub went through. this was a 14 year testing programme that it went through and like any successful science expeditions to the titanic over the last three years. let s cross live now
You through the whole. you even sat inside it. so you kind of know what it feels like to be inside. and that sub went to three times titanic depth, quite literally. safely, i d like to point out. you know, when people go down to a place like titanic as, let s call it a citizen explorer, right? i don t like tourist . i think somebody that s willing to spend that kind of money and do that kind of preparation and devote weeks of their life, they re a citizen explorer. they shouldn t have to worry about the vehicle that they re in. worry about titanic because it s a dangerous site for entanglement and collapse, you could have a structural collapse on the sub and it s a very dangerous site. but understand the risks. agree to those risks. but don t be in a situation where you haven t been told about the risks of the actual platform that you re diving in. in the 21st century, there shouldn t be any risk.
Our science correspondent jonathan amos has more now on what the investigators will be looking at. we have some idea now of the debris and what was seen on the ocean floor close to the titanic, about 500m get of that old ship. this is the titans sub, about 7m long. it has a pointy end, they found a part of that. they found their slanting structure which enables it to sit on a flat surface when any workshop like this, and they also found the titanium endcap that has the porthole, there are two of these. in the middle is where the focus of the investigation will probably be, because the cylinder is made of carbon fibre, not the usual material that they construct such