The American company OceanGate, whose bathyscaphe crashed while descending to the Titanic, has announced that it is suspending operations. In a company release, OceanGate has suspended all research and commercial operations.
Recall that the bathyscaphe was wrecked during an expedition to the Titanic on June 18. Its wreckage was discovered a few days later, more than 200 meters from the sunken Titanic. They testify to a “catastrophic inward-directed explosion.” There were five people on board the submersible: 58-year-old British billionaire and traveler Hamish Harding, 48-year-old Pakistani-British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman, CEO of OceanGate 61-year-old Stockton Rush and the pilot of the apparatus, a former military diver, researcher “Titanic” 77-year-old Frenchman Paul-Henri Narjolet.
According to Jasper Graham-Jones, associate professor at the University of Plymouth, tiny cracks in the hull could have caused the bathyscaphe to crash.
Source: Rosbalt
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