One passenger described the cylinder as “about the size of a minivan”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
have to endure hours in a dangerous drop to the ocean floor aboard a cramped craft with a single porthole.
Passengers on his 10-hour journey – a trip that can cost up to US$250,000 – were composed but excited, he said. The Titan is a tight fit. Mr David Pogue, a CBS reporter and former New York Times tech columnist who has been on board, described the cylinder as “about the size of a minivan”. The compass was “acting very weird”, he recalled, and the team knew only that they were about 500 yards from where they should have been.
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