that this vessel could safely make this remarkable journey, could dive 13,000 feet into the ocean and handle 150 million pounds of pressure at the ocean floor. the company s ceo stockton rush told me that the pressure vessel, that it s a carbon fiber structure of titan could handle that pressure no problem, that they had not cut corners when it came to costs or when it came to safety. in fact, in all of my interviews, every oceangate crew member, including the ceo, talked about safety and talked about how confident they were in this technology. they said they worked with nasa and boeing to design titan. that said, we learned that titan had some communication issues in the past, they lost communication with support crew on expeditions before that cbs news report indicated that last year the vessel was lost for more than 2 1/2 hours unable to
the ocean s floor. and the company s ceo stockton rush told me that the pressure vessel and the carbon fiber structure of titan, that sub, it could handle the pressure no problem and they had not cut corner in construction and safety and every one of the ocean crew of the company said they were confident in the technology, but having said that, kate, we have understood that titan has had communication problems in the past, and the vessel was lost for more than two hours last year, because they could not receive messages from the support crew from the surface, and they used and rely on text messages underwater, and there is no gps down there, and again, we don t know what went wrong, but we know that they got their final contact and made their final contact less than two hours into this expedition. so many questions surrounding what happened, what went wrong and where things stand now, and
the first thing that s striking is the size of it. it s extremely cramped. very small space for five people to be on board. of course that technology aspect of it, pieces of components that felt simple, even rudimentary. it is operated as you saw by a gaming controller, or playstation controller. and yet, the company insisted while some of those components may be off the shelf that really the structure of it, they did not cut any costs, cut any corners, when it came to safety. with its carbon fiber structure it would have no issues making that dive to the titanic. 13,000 feet down in the ocean with pressure 400 times the pressure at the surface around it. actually at the ocean floor. now, of course, we have learned since then that titan has had some communication issues. we know last year, the crew of the vessel, did lose communication with their support crew on the surface of the water for about two hours, it was lost. but then again, we don t know
rudementry the vessel was on board. it was powered by a gaming controller. yet the company told me they were extremely confident that they could safely use this vessel to go on such an expedition, 13,000 feet down into the ocean and that the titan could handle 150 million pounds of pressure at the ocean floor, largely because of its carbon fiber structure. ocean gate, the folks there said they worked with nasa and bowing to design this vessel. they didn t cut any corner when it came to cost and safety. that said, we have learned the titan has had communication issues in the past last year. the crew on board during an expedition lost communication with their support crew on the surface of the ocean because they were relying on messages they dent have gps under water, so a lot of questions remain as to what went wrong here. and you ve interviewed
vessel that they believe can dive 13,000 feet. that said, we have learned that titan has lost communication with support crew in the past, unable to get messages from the surface, which they really rely 00 wh on when they are under water because there is no gps on board. and you ve also interviewed the oceangate ceo. did he say anything to you about the safety of titan? i did, i interviewed stockton rush who founded oceangate several times. he is also as we have confirmed one of the people missing inside the vessel. he is the pilot right now on board. lack, he described to me their submersibles as armored vehicles. those are the words he used. he said that they were safe and that they were tested going places where of course no diver can go into water with pressure that could crush other vessels. i asked him though repeatedly