Priya Aditi
Oceangate, the owner of the Titan submersible that exploded on June 18 and killed all five passengers, has deletes its website and social media accounts. The company’s website and expedition sites now state that it has “suspended all exploration and commercial operations”, and its social media handles have vanished from the web.
This occurred days after the company’s announcement that it would suspend its exploration missions. On the company’s website on July 7, it stated, “OceanGate has suspended all exploration and commercial operations.”
Since emails and messages between experts and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush — who was among the five people onboard — went viral, disclosing that the CEO ignored repeated warnings that the submersible was unsafe, the US-based company has been under scrutiny.
What exactly happened?
The Titan submersible went AWOL on June 18 within two hours of beginning its mission to explore the wreckage of the 1912 Titanic. Days later, the United States Coast Guard confirmed that the submersible had exploded and that its detritus had been recovered from the depths of the ocean. Authorities recovered “presumed human remains” from the wreckage of the Titan.
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Who was on the ship?
Onboard the Titan submersible were five people: British billionaire industrialist Hamish Harding, British father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, whose family was one of Pakistan’s wealthiest, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, and former French navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet.
