and sometimes this is what happens. incredibly qualified, he told me many, many times this was perfectly safe. and that was enough for me to believe in his mind this was perfectly safe. what is the balance between innovation and exploration here because i think there was some concern that something like this if it were to happen with this submersible would have a chilling effect on the industry and make it make it harder for scientific discovery, potentially. yeah, i i don t think that that should be that s a fair thing. submarines have been around for quite a while, long before robots. well, in the sense that tourism. and you pay $250,000 to do this, and what it enables is it funds a lot of other exploration. it s not just funding this individual trip. are you worried that for tourism
part of the mariana trench, the deepest part of the ocean. on blue origin last year, you said you re going to space. what was hammish like? he was larger than life. he was a very successful businessman in aviation, based out of dubai. when it comes to the adventures, he was incredibly accomplished. he had three guinness world records to his name. been to space. well done, incredible, and like i said, been to the trench. these are incredible achievements within the space and adventure community, and we all admired him and had a lot of respect for him. but he was just a very nice guy. if you had a drink with him, you would enjoy it tremendously. just a really nice guy. i m deeply saddened by the loss of him as well as the others of course. i imagine he also knew what he was getting into and understood that each add venture that he took could be his last.
getting into at the time. i m happier it s happened than this way than if they were lingering there, and you know, slowly asphyxiating, but whatever the outcome, whether they survived, whether it had been a slow passing or an instantaneous explosion, it s something they would have grappled with, they would have known this was the risk i took, and i really feel strongly, if it had happened to me, i would have felt that way too. what compelled you to take that trip? i know a lot of people out there are thinking to themselves, why would you ever do this, why would you sign up for something like this. you tell me why? i think people, men out there will understand, what compelled me was my wife. this was her dream. she loves to travel. i like to sit home and watch
did happen at some point in those immediate hours after it lost contact. a lot of questions also about the crew, whether or not they would continue to search, would they be able to recover any bodies, and the answer to that was that it is an unforgiving atmosphere down there, and they said that the debris was consistent with this catastrophic implosion, and so they weren t confident but didn t know for sure if they would be able to recover any of the crew members, you know, think about it. this was a 22 foot vessel. it was spread across a debris field. those pieces that you mentioned in several different places around that smooth bottom surface right in front of the titanic. so those were some of the questions. we re also beginning to hear from some of the family members. our colleague daniel arkin at nbc news digital did an
investigate the sight of the debris field. and then i know that there s also a lot of questions about how, why and when did this happen. and so, you know, those are questions that we will collect as much information as we can on now while the governments are meeting and discussing, you know, what an investigation of this nature of casualty might look like. this is something that happened, i ll just remind everybody, this is something that happened in a remote portion of the ocean with people from, you know, several different countries around the world, and so it is a complex case to work through. but i m confident that those