i think we re seeing a parallel here with make sure if you re going to go into a vehicle, whether it s an aircraft or a surface craft or submersible that it s been through certifying agencies, that it s been signed off. seems like a basic point, doesn t it? while the u.s. coast guard is leading efforts to determine how the titan sub imploded, canada has its own investigation under way to determine the possibility at least of criminal liability for those five people killed on board. an effort complicated by the fact that oceangate s founder and ceo, stockton rush, once made comments about breaking safety rules in pursuit of innovation, was one of the victims. he died on the sub. joining me now is a maritime attorney and a u.s. coast guard licensed deep sea captain. good to have you on. thanks so much for joining us. thanks for having me. so he did not have any certification for this. he spoke about it publicly. he said sometimes certification slows things down. sure it does.
this. it s phenomenal do you worry about this having impact on the continued exploration? i do. look, i m not worried about exploration because explorers will go. and i m not worried about innovation because people will innovate. i m worried that it has a negative impact on, let s say, citizen explorers, tourists, you know. but these are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places. and i don t want to discourage that. but i think that it s almost now a lesson, the takeaway is make sure if you re going to go into a vehicle, whether it s an aircraft or a surface craft or a submersible that it s been through certifying agencies. you know, that it s been signed off. every day we trust our lives to engineering. we step into an elevator. we make an assumption that somebody somewhere has done the math properly and it s all been certified properly. we should take the same precautions when we get into a submersible. even if i
these are serious people of serious curiosity, willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places. i don t want to discourage that. i think that it s almost now the lesson, the takeaway is, make sure if you re gonna go into a vehicle, whether it s an aircraft or surface craft or submersible, that it s been through certifying agencies. it s been signed off. every day, we trust our lives to engineering. we step into an elevator. we make an assumption that somebody, somewhere has done the math properly. it s all been certified properly. we should take the same precautions when we get into a submersible. even if it s at a resort, we re only going down 300 feet. or 1000 feet. i m a partner in a submersible company called triton, i ll say that up front. triton, not tighten. triton has a perfect operational safety record across 20 vehicles and 10,000 hours of people diving to depths up to 1000 meters. it can be done. but it requires rigor, i think all of us in the
have done the certification, people who have really studied this. it s a phenomenal do you worry about this having an impact on the continued explosion? i do. i do. i m not worried about exploration because explorers will go and i m not worried about innovation because people will innovate. i m worried it has a negative impact on citizen explorers, tourists, but these are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places and i don t want to discourage that, but i think that it s almost now the lesson, the take away is make sure if you are going to go into a vehicle whether it s a aircraft, surface craft or submersible that it s been through certifying agencies, that it s been signed off. every day we trust our lives to engineering, we step into an elevator, we make an assumption that somebody somewhere has done the math properly and it s been certified properly. we should take the same